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Old 06-14-2011, 03:47 PM   #16
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Unfortunately not. I do not have any other 64 bit boards. I believe I have taken this about as far as I can. As you said, I believe this is the board and it is time to replace it.
 
Old 06-14-2011, 08:41 PM   #17
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I take it jumping the voltage didnt work? Doh.

Pity you live in Lexington, KY. I've got a few AMD 64 boards (socket 939, socket AM2+, socket AM3) you could test with. But its a bit far from there to here. If you want to bring over the box for testing though, its OK with me
 
Old 06-16-2011, 06:18 AM   #18
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I tried the voltage and it still didn't work. Wish I could bring the box over for testing!
 
Old 06-16-2011, 06:27 AM   #19
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I tried something tonight that did actually work! I am needing some help determining what this means.

My quickest test has been to try the Fedora 15 64 bit DVD install. This will get a kernel panic, exit to text mode, and freeze pretty quickly, usually before I make it to the hard drive partitioning. It has never come close to starting the install.

I have been focused on the motherboard being bad. I just haven't heard before of a processor going bad unless it was a heat problem which isn't my case here. I wondered if a core could be bad and how I could verify that. I found that there is a linux kernel parameter named "maxcpus=1", so I tried that. It worked! I was able to completely install Fedora 15 64 bit for the first time. I tried to boot into the installation without the parameter and it quickly crashed before it got booted. I booted again with the parameter and it ran fine. I left the machine running and it stayed up all night and is still going.

So now what does this tell me? Does it tell me I do have a bad processor? Or could it still be the motherboard?
 
Old 06-18-2011, 08:21 AM   #20
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That could still be the motherboard. Or it could be the CPU, or even power supply.

Theres a few tools for detecting 'bad' CPU cores, but none of them are free. None that I know about anyway.
 
  


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