Diagnostic / Utility to determine if CPU is faulty?

[Infohawk]

I've been having problems with my laptop. See this Post (on Anandtech)

Today, a crash occured when I entered into the right-click menu on my xp desktop. I've heard there's a bug in xp that raises CPU usage to 100% when you right click. This made me wonder if my CPU is causing problems.

Is there a diagnostic tool that allows you to determine whether a CPU is faulty or error prone such that it would cause problems? I'm looking for something like memtest86 except for use with CPUs instead of RAM.

Thanks.

 

[Budman]

Prime95

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Budman
Prime95

 

[Budman]

Is there an echo in here?

 

[Infohawk]

Prime 95 appears to be designed to find Mersennes numbers.

How will this find problems with my CPU?

 

[moonshinemadness]

Run the prime 95 torture test (You will find it in one of the menus) over night...bout 8 hours if the cpus ok no errors should occur if you get errors/warnings then start to question your cpu's stability.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: moonshinemadness
Run the prime 95 torture test (You will find it in one of the menus) over night...bout 8 hours if the cpus ok no errors should occur if you get errors/warnings then start to question your cpu's stability.

 

[Budman]

echo.............

 

[redbeard1]

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