I7 970, sabertooth x58

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Last response: July 28, 2012 2:03 AM in CPUs

July 26, 2012 5:59:00 AM

was on vacation and came back to the computer turned off. tryed to start and halts on win startup. tryed removing every thing exept 1 stick of ram and starting, nothing. Ram memtest and passed all tests, turned off OC, cmos reset, cant even startup with a ubuntu live cd.

Next thing i tryed was in bios, Run # of cores. tryed all from 5 down to 1. and it runs on 1 core 2 threads...

im thinking CPU is fryed or least part of it. but want a second opion before buying a new cpu :sweat:

Sorry if this is the wrong threat. im not used to forums

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nna2

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July 26, 2012 7:58:15 AM

i've had windows die on me before, i would be quick to blame that before anything else, try hitting F8 before it begins booting and select "Repair your computer"... it has a bad rep but it's saved me a few times

if that fails try re installing windows

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canadashaun

July 26, 2012 3:38:08 PM

forgot to mention tryed repair, freezes soon as i hit repair windows, tryed safe mode. freezes at loading pnp*.sys. Tryed reinstalling winblows on a brand new hard drive, wont load past the first window to the cd.