BRNAD NEW AMD PROCESSOR, Don't know whats wrong with it. 2

[dhar25]

I just took a AMD 1.8 GHZ CPU[XP2200/1.80ghz] out of the box that was purchased about 6 months ago and tried on new PC I was building for my son on a state of art ASUS motherboard. The new processor appears to start the unit as every things runs but after 1 ½ minutes it quits.
I tried a different CPU on the same mother board, it works without a problem.

I tired the same AMD 1.8 gig CPU on other mother boards, it still starts and quits after one or two minutes. At this point I am forced to think that I have purchased a defective CPU. I probably do not have a warranty by now as I failed to test it immediately thinking that it is a brand new CPU and it should work.

I wonder if any one can advise me if I am doing some thing wrong. If it is really a defective CPU how to get this fixed or replaced without a lot of hazel. This is the first time it happened to me with AMD CPU and I am very disappointed.
-DHAR25

 

[rockerfellerz]

Retail box cpu's from AMD have a 3 year warranty I believe, so if it is bad you should be able to return it.

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[paparazi]

Could well be defective but I have to say these are unusual symptoms simply for a defective CPU and point more towards overheating than anything else.
I don't want to tell you how to suck eggs but the most common fault with AMD CPU's is users fitting the heatsink/fan unit on the wrong way around, this might not be obvious as everything looks absolutely fine.
When looking at the base of the heatsink you will notice a recess in one side, this recess must be positioned over the RAISED cam box on the CPU socket otherwise the heatsink does not st squarely on the CPU core and so overheats.
This overheating may take anything between 10 seconds to 10 minutes depending on good the contact is.
I once saw an XP2.4+ with a thermalright all copper SLK800 fitted the wrong way around, it had been built for 6months and the owner complained of random reboots and BSOD, he was lucky, it just took a refit to give him back a completely stable machine.
The flip side to this is a burnt out CPU after 10 seconds.
The other problem you have is that the retail phase changing pad fitted to an OEM heatsink is a use only once item, it will be obvious to the retailer if this has been used more than once, scraped off, or has been fitted incorrectly (you can see a brite line to one side of the heatsink base (offset not central) where the edge of the core has been incorrectly sat, if it has been fitted wrongly)
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[cadaveca]

i'd check your psu's rating over the amperage of installed components. also, make sure that mem timings are set proerly. going from 2-3-2-6-1 to 2-2-3-6-1 will give you exactly the same behavior, as well as possibly BSOD's

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