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ems731   06-21-2009 at 05:59:58 PM

hey guys, im new here, just a quick question to confirm this chip is dead.

swapped a t2080 for a t5500, and three boots later the system froze and when restarted, would not boot.

so i tested the t5500 in another laptop and same result, just checking to see if the cpu can be confirmed dead....

i would imagine so, but just curious as to why it happened 3 boots after swap....thanks in advance!

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MU_Engineer   06-21-2009 at 06:49:50 PM
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ems731 wrote :

hey guys, im new here, just a quick question to confirm this chip is dead.

swapped a t2080 for a t5500, and three boots later the system froze and when restarted, would not boot.

so i tested the t5500 in another laptop and same result, just checking to see if the cpu can be confirmed dead....

i would imagine so, but just curious as to why it happened 3 boots after swap....thanks in advance!



My guess would be overheating.

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wuzy   06-22-2009 at 01:08:47 AM
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so i tested the t5500 in another laptop and same result, just checking to see if the cpu can be confirmed dead....

i would imagine so, but just curious as to why it happened 3 boots after swap....thanks in advance!


Sounds like it's dead alright.
Thermally and electrically those CPUs are pretty robust. The likely source of failure I can think of is physical damage to the die caused by the heatsink assembly. They're fragile bare die afterall and chipping the edge is common.

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ems731   06-22-2009 at 03:19:02 AM
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thanks...do you have any rec. for a replacement for the core 2/core duo series that is more reliable?

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