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    I have two Celeron 466mhz CPU's in my Server computer, unfortunately I think one of them died... The problem started when one day I came home from work and my server had locked up. It was running solidy for weeks, but then this hard lock.... So I rebooted it and all worked fine for a while, then it locked again a day later. Then after a reset, maybe a few hours would go by before it'd lock again... So I thought, well maybe the PSU is going bad or something, oh well, I have a few spares....

    Well... I opened it up, and in the process I figured I'd air it out... pulled out the ol' can of air and what do you know, the fan on one of my CPU's wasn't moving.. So I replaced the fan on it, and tested it. Well it booted right up as usual, using the SMP kernel, but once again, it locked up after a few hours.

    I didn't take the CPU out, but instead I'm running the single CPU kernel and it hasn't locked up since. So would you all say that the CPU is toast? I'm running Mandrake 9.2 on it. It was working fine before in SMP, then when it started crashing I also updated the kernel from the security updates, and still had lock ups, thats when I just decided to run it in single processor mode.

    The board is an Abit BP6.

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    Probably, but to be absolutly certain swap the processors and use the other uni processor mode and see what happens

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    • #3
      I doubt the cpu would toast itself that easily

      It is probably something else.

      (I subscribe to the notion that CPUs are normally almost indestructable. As long as you mount a heatsink properly onto it, the CPU can never get hot enough to melt itself before switching itself off and locking up)
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      • #4
        Not from heat, but a surge can get them, and they only last so many years anyway. A celeron 466 is a little old. It's premature for it to die, but if it had an overclocking history, it might have given it up.

        Still, if the fan died, I'd be more suspicious of MB damage than CPU damager.
        Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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        • #5
          The number of years a CPU lasts is generally in the 2 digit range in any case. I personally have never encountered any CPU that died of old age, and have only encountered 1 or maybe 2 dead CPUs in the last 12 years. Plenty of dead motherboards, plenty of dead fans, dead hard drives, the occasional dead video card, but virtually no dead CPUs

          Though if you overvolt them, that would probably significantly reduce their working life time.
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          • #6
            Pretty much what I thought? hmm, it IS an Abit board, I didn't check to see if anything on the board was melted or not. I just thought it quite odd that it works fine and stable with the non-smp kernel, but with the smp kernel it locks, and only started doing it recently...

            Leech
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