unsure if my Chiped CPU is dead

[XPogiGTIVR6X]

yah, Well a trace line was fried, fixed it with a thin peace of speeker wire. booted up, saw the keyboard and mouse. now my hard drive is acting up, something about windows protection error,I need to restart, blah blah blah. but whats odd, when I blew up my PS\2 ports I took my whole computer appart, and put it in boxs full of that popcorn foam. Vid and sound card in antistatic bags, and my hard drive alone in the boxs. now I fix the trace, and hook every thing back up, I cant start windows. now My proccessor the middle silverish thing, i think Its called the Proccessor DIE, or something. Is kinda chiped in the corner, not huge, REALLY smallb but noticable(HSF install problem), but every thing boots up fine, BIOS comes up, every thing is being seen, DVD, CD burner. Hard Drive. My HSF is the globalwin something, with the black Delta fan( it SCreams) 1.4Ghz not over clocked, every thing "stock" 256 DDR, and Geforce 2 GTS, and a crap sound card.

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[funnyperson1]

best bet is to borrow a chip from a friend and check if you have problems...

[forgoten]

hmm, well from my experiences, there is usually a beep code to tell you if its fried or not. I was under the impression if the procesor is blown, it wont even boot or anything. But beep. :rolleyes:

[David]

That little chip in the corner of the die may be a problem. In my experience, bad memory can also give you windows protection errors. Try a different CPU and then different RAM to see if thats the problem.

[XPogiGTIVR6X]

I have a K6 500Mhz, I dont know if it will work in the same slot, and if it does, will DDR work with it?

[FRANK]

Originally posted by XPogiGTIVR6X
I have a K6 500Mhz, I dont know if it will work in the same slot, and if it does, will DDR work with it?

In a word, no. The T-BIRD / DURON line use a socket A whereas a K6 uses a socket 7 / super socket 7 (100MHz FSB)

It sounds like you could use some time spent in the "Beginners Guides" located here;

http://www.overclockers.com/topiclist/index04.asp#BEGINNER

Spend some time getting to know how everything works together and what works together and you will find yourself having more successful results on your overclocking endeavors.

Good Luck!

[XPogiGTIVR6X]

awww hell, beginer? :mad: im not a "newbie." heh, anyone with a 1.4Ghz Athlon they wana sell????