Stoly
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So for about a month my son told me the PC wouldn't start and make beeping sounds.
I figured it was the ram, so I reseated it and it worked. It would run fine for a couple of days and then it happened again, I cleaned the sticks and memory slots and again it ran fine, except that on power up or reboot no matter what it would beep, reseat sticks, rinse and repeat it worked again, this has been going on for weeks, I ended up puting it to sleep instead of power off, as I really didn't have the time to troubleshoot and the PC was completely stable.
I knew for sure the problem was not the ram as I tried several sticks on other PC so I figured it should be the motherboard as in my 30+ years experience its NEVER the CPU.
But as every rule there's always an exception. Today the PC wouldn't turn on, the PSU is like 3 months old but I still tried another, same result, the leds on the MB would light on, but upon pressing the power buttoin it would turn off in a fraction of a second. No beeps, nada.
So I removed the MB for closer inspection, removed the CPU and behold...
You can look at what seems like a stain on the top left rows, I don't think that's the cause but never the less I cleaned it and tried it on another MB. Same results.
I've built countless systems for my self, family and customers. This is the first time ever that I've seen a dead intel CPU. I mean I even have some old celeron and P4 that work to this day. I always thought intel CPUs would last forever.
BTW no overclocking as its a Core i5 3330.
Sorry by the bad pic, got cheapo phone with sucky camera.
I figured it was the ram, so I reseated it and it worked. It would run fine for a couple of days and then it happened again, I cleaned the sticks and memory slots and again it ran fine, except that on power up or reboot no matter what it would beep, reseat sticks, rinse and repeat it worked again, this has been going on for weeks, I ended up puting it to sleep instead of power off, as I really didn't have the time to troubleshoot and the PC was completely stable.
I knew for sure the problem was not the ram as I tried several sticks on other PC so I figured it should be the motherboard as in my 30+ years experience its NEVER the CPU.
But as every rule there's always an exception. Today the PC wouldn't turn on, the PSU is like 3 months old but I still tried another, same result, the leds on the MB would light on, but upon pressing the power buttoin it would turn off in a fraction of a second. No beeps, nada.
So I removed the MB for closer inspection, removed the CPU and behold...
You can look at what seems like a stain on the top left rows, I don't think that's the cause but never the less I cleaned it and tried it on another MB. Same results.
I've built countless systems for my self, family and customers. This is the first time ever that I've seen a dead intel CPU. I mean I even have some old celeron and P4 that work to this day. I always thought intel CPUs would last forever.
BTW no overclocking as its a Core i5 3330.
Sorry by the bad pic, got cheapo phone with sucky camera.