Who's actually run into a bad AMD cpu?

LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
edited May 2004 in Hardware
Some of you may remember the battle with the gf's HP. Months later no improvement could be reached. I figured the POS hp motherboard was more suspect than the AMD cpu. Now it seems I may have been wrong.

Brand new Nf7-S, new video card, proven ram, which was swapped in to rule a ram problem out originally. I even unplugged the damn HP burner the last time it froze to rule that out. If this thing continues to freeze the only thing it could possibly be is the CPU.

What I don't see is how thats likely? Its running cool, 42C at full load. Its a 2200+ chip running at stock 1.8ghz. I've been bumping the vcore up to see if maybe its not getting enough juice but so far no avail there either. Its at 1.68v right now and I'm gonna keep tryin till I get to around 1.75.

Any other last ditch ideas to toss out? I can't believe an AMD chip that never ran above stock speed is actually dead in a little more than a year.

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Well, 2200s were a rather curiously black time in AMD's otherwise bright history with the Athlon series. It's entirely possible that it went belly up, and no silicon is immune to a bad one now and then.
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited May 2004
    Lousy
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2004
    TBred As are bad as far as I am concerned. Only CPU I have ever lost.
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited May 2004
    Here's the ironic part. Her sister who also owns a POS hp that they bought around the same time, is now exhibiting similar behavior. Oh well. I'll stick her sisters cpu in her system and see if it does the same thing, if it is her cpu is probably toast too!
  • madmatmadmat
    edited May 2004
    I put a 2200+ tbred-b in my sis's system when I gave it to her and it's pretty nice, it'll do 2241 quite nicely but since it's the stock thin-fin copper sink/fan on it it tends to get kinda sloppy as it heats up.
  • -tk-tk Detroit, MI USA Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    prime gave me an XP2000+ that went tits up when I put it in my motherboard. Although, he has a nasty habit of giving me crappy used gear ;)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    -tk wrote:
    prime gave me an XP2000+ that went tits up when I put it in my motherboard. Although, he has a nasty habit of giving me crappy used gear ;)

    hey now... at least I don't charge you for this crap.... I just use you as a testbed for potentially crappy gear ;D
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    ive only toasted 2 1700+ palaminos but they were paliminos so they deserved to get toasted.
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited May 2004
    My record is 3 CPUs in less than 10 minutes. The CPUs were good...it was the user who was bad.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Only CPU I've ever had that went bad toasted because of something I did. I still can't figure out what...
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited May 2004
    Maybe its not as uncommon as I thought. As it turns out its startin to look like it wasn't getting enough juice after all. I bumped the vcore to 1.7 which shows up at 1.66-1.68 in the hardware monitor. Its been running for 14 hrs at 100% with folding running all night. First points I've turned in for a while.

    If it goes 20 hours I'm gonna assume that was the problem. I'll bump it up to like 1.725 for good measure and call it a day. Now I just have to finish stripping this HP of the few useful parts it still has and pluggin' em into the new tower. Any ideas on how to dispose of the HP? I was thinking set it on the local train tracks just ahead of the next train coming in and catch it with the camcorder...
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    That wasn't uncommon with early Tbred A's. I think that AMD got a little ahead of themselves with the lower operating voltage.

    As for the box, flames are always good entertainment.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited May 2004
    It shouldn't need that kind of voltage. IIRC, my TBred A 2200 has a stock vCore of 1.65v. Having to increase the voltage over stock to get it to run at stock speeds indicates a bad cpu or board. Since you've switched the board, I suspect it's the cpu.

    //Edit

    Or ed could be right. But I haven't ever run into that problem.
  • LawnMMLawnMM Colorado
    edited May 2004
    Yeah well, seems I spoke too soon. Locked up this afternoon again with 43C frozen on the screen. Its pretty well screwed, guess I'll add that to the list of things I have to buy for the damn thing.

    /me shoots himself
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