Question on System Freezing up

isekii

Lifer
Mar 16, 2001
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Recently sold a CPU 3.06 PIV 533 CPU with HT.

He just got back to me like 28 days later telling me that it starts to freeze on him asking me if I overclocked it.

It was pulled from my Dell system so it was never overclocked.

Can a faulty CPU cause it to freeze up. If it's faulty wouldn't it not boot up at all ?
Maybe it's not receiving sufficient cooling ?

this is what he's running with it supposedly

300 Watt P4 Power Supply.
The Vid card is a GeForce4 4200Ti
Crucial memory, 2 sticks 2.5 CL 333 PC2700
 

JBDan

Platinum Member
Dec 7, 2004
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More info needed? Freeze? BSOD? Error message? Posts but aft Win loads it freezes?