Possible CPU error, how to see if it is?

[Guest]

I recently built myself a computer, it was an i7 computer. When i was playing some games, the screen just froze and vibrated. I turned off my computer and it didn't boot. When i cleared the CMOS it entered BIOS and then started booting windows. However it freezes during boot, i have run a memory test with no errors for one and a half hours, booted with one hard drive, one DIMM and tried reinstalling Vista. Currently i think that it could be a CPU error, any idea on if it could be and how i can test for it?

Core i7 920
Corsair DDR3 i7 Ram
ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard
Nvidia 9800 Gx2
Seagate 500gb
Kingwin mach 1 800W

any ideas on what it could be?

 

[rockstone1]

Try swapping out your CPU for an older one if you can find one, or if you don't mind paying for it, buy a cheap CPU that works with your motherboard.

 

[blackpanther26]

Try swapping out your CPU for an older one if you can find one, or if you don't mind paying for it, buy a cheap CPU that works with your motherboard.

That is Core i7 socket LGA 1366 he would need another Core i7 to test.

 

[Guest]

yeah, as he said i would need another i7 so i want to see if i can avoid having to buy a new one.

 

[rockstone1]

Hmm... Good point.

You could try swapping out the Hard drive to see if that's the problem, (essentially, just swap them out and try to reinstall.)

 

[Guest]

yeah i already tried that, running with each one of my hard drives, and with none. no live cd's are booting, and vista reinstall won't open. I can access my express gate however, ginving me internet capabilities. I can also boot up memtest86+ but no linux or vista...

 

[noodle64]

did you try reseating your cpu with new thermal paste? any error lights on your board?

 

[Guest]

hmm ill have to try that ... now wheres that thermal paste

 

[ainarssems]

CPU's very rarely fail like that if it is working properly at the beginning then it eithe works or fails to totally dead. It is more likely to be motherboard, graphics card or PSU.

 

[Guest]

Seems to have a partial fix, it now boots from cd...still freezes on windows, however now it restarts

 

[Guest]

Yeah thanks for the grease tip, seems that the large quantities of dust had jammed it and it wasn't booting correctly it did however corrupt a file which i rapidly fixed ! Again thanks a lot noodle64 also everyone else for their comments!

 

[noodle64]

glad to help!