rah618@verizon.net
CPU : Intel Core 2 Quad Processor
. Q8400 2.66 Ghz 1333Mhz
. 4Mb LGA 775
I was building my latest computer and retiring my old P4 to become my server.
I messed up and shorted out my motherboard on the new system, it was a new Asus Board. At the time both my processor and memory were on the board. Afterwards all my lights lit, my drives powered up and the onboard light was lit - so it took me awhile to realize the board was fried. I just did not get audio or video - no boot.
I replaced the board with another Asus and now it booted but shut right down after boot. I thought the memory was bad, but I was able to go into setup and sit in there forever -my memory showed correctly.
It turned out different board did not support that memory so I got correct memory and now this is where I am ...
I go all the way to booting up off of my windowsXP disk, I go into setup and no problem. I read all my processor details during boot and in setup...
Windows begins to install ... Phase I is when it copies all the files to HDD.. then reboots....
Now it shows a familiar Windows screen and tells me -
Setting up windows components ..will take approx 35 minutes..
I can see five phases to this process...
I can slip from one phase to the next right up to the point it enters phase four ... a few moments into phase four and it shuts down.
No beep, no waring...no nothing just a plain shut down...
Now I am thinking it is not a bad processor because the memory turned out to " Not be bad - just wrong "
I do not believe Windows would go right to the end like this if the processor were bad. I do not believe the post test would let a bad processor slip past. I also do not believe processor details would show if it were bad, or there would be some warning long before this point.
I believe it is overheating and just shutting down....
Does this behavior sound like when the board fried ( and it really was fried) that the processor was damaged - and it runs to the point Windows detects it once put under test?
Or ..
Does it sound like a processor that once put under full load is overheating and shuts right down immediately to prevent damage?
I am looking for opinions on this..
oh, and i am only using the heatsink & fan that came with ...that cheap one ...I have another ordered because I will use that either way -if I need a new processor or not.
CPU : Intel Core 2 Quad Processor
. Q8400 2.66 Ghz 1333Mhz
. 4Mb LGA 775
I was building my latest computer and retiring my old P4 to become my server.
I messed up and shorted out my motherboard on the new system, it was a new Asus Board. At the time both my processor and memory were on the board. Afterwards all my lights lit, my drives powered up and the onboard light was lit - so it took me awhile to realize the board was fried. I just did not get audio or video - no boot.
I replaced the board with another Asus and now it booted but shut right down after boot. I thought the memory was bad, but I was able to go into setup and sit in there forever -my memory showed correctly.
It turned out different board did not support that memory so I got correct memory and now this is where I am ...
I go all the way to booting up off of my windowsXP disk, I go into setup and no problem. I read all my processor details during boot and in setup...
Windows begins to install ... Phase I is when it copies all the files to HDD.. then reboots....
Now it shows a familiar Windows screen and tells me -
Setting up windows components ..will take approx 35 minutes..
I can see five phases to this process...
I can slip from one phase to the next right up to the point it enters phase four ... a few moments into phase four and it shuts down.
No beep, no waring...no nothing just a plain shut down...
Now I am thinking it is not a bad processor because the memory turned out to " Not be bad - just wrong "
I do not believe Windows would go right to the end like this if the processor were bad. I do not believe the post test would let a bad processor slip past. I also do not believe processor details would show if it were bad, or there would be some warning long before this point.
I believe it is overheating and just shutting down....
Does this behavior sound like when the board fried ( and it really was fried) that the processor was damaged - and it runs to the point Windows detects it once put under test?
Or ..
Does it sound like a processor that once put under full load is overheating and shuts right down immediately to prevent damage?
I am looking for opinions on this..
oh, and i am only using the heatsink & fan that came with ...that cheap one ...I have another ordered because I will use that either way -if I need a new processor or not.
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