Processor Hell

[koleoptero]

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kalemera philos. Ese kala;
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Eh kalemera

[wolfen69]

The CPU in question is an AMD Athalon64 3400 made in like 2001.

Release date was 2004. It's still a decent cpu for basic things.

[ClientAlive]

Holy Shnoikies!! I got er'. I can't believe it! I didn't think you could straighten something like that out! So it fires up, now we'll see if the other hardware is ok and I can install Linux.

Thanks for straightening me out on straightening those pins out fellas.

[CraigPaleo]

Not many processors have been to hell and back. I bet it won't do it again!

[Brent0]

You can fix a processor even if the pin breaks off by placing it into the socket and then putting the CPU on top. Here is a video of this in action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdDccsbv5hA

[tgalati4]

Well, at least you didn't set your motherboard on fire before attempting to repair your CPU. That's good to hear that you got it working.

[Bandit]

Release date was 2004. It's still a decent cpu for basic things.

Heck yea.. Should run Ubuntu like a champ. I had a 3000+ and it was tight..

[ClientAlive]

Not many processors have been to hell and back. I bet it won't do it again!

LMFAO!

Well, at least you didn't set your motherboard on fire before attempting to repair your CPU. That's good to hear that you got it working.

I found this really, really cool, err . . . set of tuols. It's called Ultimate Boot CD. It's chock full of goodies and runs live. Even has clonezilla and partition magic on it (among many other things). Neatest little CD I ever burned!

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

[tgalati4]

I use it all the time. A must to carry in your toolkit.

[Dustin2128]

Yea LGA = Land Grid Array, pins are in the socket not the chip. Actually one of my most intuitive things Intel has done in a long time.
Really hope AMD follows this as well.

I've read that they did that to stop people from breaking off a pin or two to make processors compatible with sockets they weren't designed for .