What do you do with a bad cpu?

[Scrooge2]

Okay i got an amd duron 1gig from some guy in anandtech. He told me there may be some problems with it so he sold it cheap and i took the chance. It doesnt work, is there any way i can get amd to say...fix it up for me?
Or am i stuck?

 

[DaiShan]

if it wasn't retail and doesn't have the warranty, or a similar from an oem, then the only thing you can do is make a keychain 🙂 sorry if this isn't what you were hoping for!

 

[spanky]

i might get flamed for this but...

As-Is eBay auction.... there's got to be a sucker out there 😛

 

[googly]

Bad Spanky, bad, bad, bad. Where's the rolled-up newspaper...

 

[illusion88]

Ive got mine hanging on my wall....

 

[googly]

Seriously though, did the seller say it was *dead*? If not, what sort of ~problems~ did he/she say?

 

[Scrooge2]

Well basically he said that he got it new and couldnt get it to start up. He got it OEM so it wasn't fiddled with, he said he thought i was probably dead and that he was selling it so that maybe someone else could get it to work.

 

[DaiShan]

ebay is so cut throat it is unbelieveable, that is why I came here, people will rip you off and not think twice about it, I even had one get me banned from ebay because they claimed I didn't pay, and ebay didn't even ask for my side of the story, but on ethical grounds I would just make a keychain, and remember that next time to buy stuff known to be working.

 

[Scrooge2]

man i wouldn't sell anything broken. That's low as hell for a couple of bucks. I'd feel like a lawyer or something..."I wrote in 0.5 font on the lower right corner that it was broken!" 🙂