Ever seen a bad CPU?

[Triumph]

In my career, I have fixed over 1000 PC's and only twice have I ever seen a bad CPU. One was my own PC an AMD 586/133 and the other was an IBM 300GL. Anybody else seen them?

[joelen]

I see about 2-3 a week... on a SLOW week... a couple a day on bad week....

[AlienDyne]

About 4 Intel ones, 6-7 AMD ones and more than 10 Cyrix ones.

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[CobraTekMax]

Ever seen a Cyrix?

I have never seen a bad Intel CPU, at least one that wasn't damaged by an outside force (such as overheating).

And I've only seen ONE bad AMD, a K6-2 333.

I've had a couple of OEM chips from Intel & AMD both that were DOA, but you'll have that every once in a while.

[Sowulo]

Never seen a bad Intel. I see people bringing in dead AMD's everyday for RMA at my wholesale distributer's.

[Wayward Clam]

I've seen about three bad CPUs (two AMDs and an EverGreen), and about three hundred people trying to return CPUs that they claim were bad but were actually overclocked and melted, installed backwards and melted, installed in wrong type of slot and melted, installed without heatsinks and melted, all of the above and melted, etc., etc., etc...

[jimtcurry]

I have only seen a couple of bad intels, actually they were remarked p133 that were actually p120's.
only 1 amd 1.3ghz (turned out that the customer fried it)
i never touch cyrix, i think they are all bad. hehehe

[Larommi]

A PNY overdrive chip!

One K6-2 300 out of the box
On intel slot1 something like a pII450 out of the box

[lgsracer]

Yes several Intel and AMD. The most interesting on was an AMD T-bird with a bad MMX resiter everything would work fine untill you tried to play a WAV or AVI then BSOD.

[Nakedboy]

I had an AMD chip literaly explode when installed. I big chunk came of the top. But the problem was with the mother board. The guy that sold it to me told me he had three MB from the same shipment blow up the AMD chips.

The bad thing was that the client was sitting their with me as I was upgradng his computer. I felt really stupidd because I thought I had done something wrong.

[Sowulo]

Originally posted by Wayward Clam:
I've seen about three bad CPUs (two AMDs and an EverGreen), and about three hundred people trying to return CPUs that they claim were bad but were actually overclocked and melted, installed backwards and melted, installed in wrong type of slot and melted, installed without heatsinks and melted, all of the above and melted, etc., etc., etc...

Yes, let's not forget these....

[SB]

Originally posted by Larommi:
A PNY overdrive chip!

One K6-2 300 out of the box
On intel slot1 something like a pII450 out of the box

I've seen a couple of bad PNYs - only 2 intel that I can remember and a few AMD.

[Ruslan]

I've seen quite a few fried AMD K6-2 2,2v processors mostly due to problems with core voltage regulators on motherboards.
...also a lot of Cyrix,IBM and Winchip CPUs - due to problems with overheating (problems with fans).
...also Intel's CPUs - due to over-over-clocking.

[clascomp]

Originally posted by Wayward Clam:
I've seen about three bad CPUs (two AMDs and an EverGreen), and about three hundred people trying to return CPUs that they claim were bad but were actually overclocked and melted, installed backwards and melted, installed in wrong type of slot and melted, installed without heatsinks and melted, all of the above and melted, etc., etc., etc...

I've seen several bad IBM/CYRIX, a few bad AMD K6's mostly due to the above mentioned problems, one bad AMD T-Bird 900, never a bad Intel PII or PIII chip, EVER!

[Outcoded]

Only one 486/100 (he'd got pissed and combed his hair with it!)

Oh, loads of IDT Winchips, not faulty, just BAD!