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Update on Christmas Gaming build gone Awry

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VINMAN

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Well found local store today that wasnt overflowing with people and got my problem diagnosed. Put in new memory, nothing, new video card nothing, drop in another CPU BINGO system comes up. So apparently the Opteron 175 was bad 🙁 Anyone else have any experience with this happening? It came up and posted fine initially, Was recognized in BIOS as Opteron 175 by the ASUS a8n32-sli deluxe MB. I didnt change anything and it ran fine for a few hours although i kept getting that ACPI error saying i need to update the bios but it stopped working before i ever could get it upgraded.

Is there some bios setting that could have somehow caused CPU to go bad? I am calling to RMA now so just want to make sure before i drop in another one. any thoughts let me know im off to RMA land, wish me luck

thx
Vinman
 
I would have the store put the test CPU in and flash the latest bios, then try the 175 before I deemed it as bad. They may charge you a service fee to flash the bios.
 
already home, and when i first started the box up it had no issues. I went into the bios and it recognize the processor no issues, it was after it had been running for few hours after initial OS install and it got APCI error that i turned it off and when i tried to restart it later would get no post or anything. So dont think bios not recognizing it was issue. Called AMD and did the RMA, already shipped it UPS so prob be few weeks before i get new one back 🙁
 
update from AMD

We have finished testing your Opteron 175 for Socket 939. The CPU did fail the
tests. A replacement Opteron 175 CPU will be sent out shortly. If you have any
other questions at all, please let us know.

Regards,
Michael
AMD Technical Service Center

So now another week or so and maybe i can try and get my new computer running 🙂
 
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