Do I have a damaged CPU?

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I had been running a desktop with Asus A7M266, AMD Athlon 1.4GHz and
750 MB, 266Mhz DDR memory chips when I noticed the CPU fans
intermittently malfunctioning. Then I started getting frequent shut
downs of the desktop saying, " A problem has been detected and windows
has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
PAGE_FULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA......"

I replaced the motherboard with PCchips M848A. The problem persists.
After spending some time to figure out the cause of the problem, I
concluded that the CPU is the culprit. Is there any program I can use
to test it?

Do damaged CPUs cause problems like mine?
 
baddley said:
I had been running a desktop with Asus A7M266, AMD Athlon 1.4GHz and
750 MB, 266Mhz DDR memory chips when I noticed the CPU fans
intermittently malfunctioning. Then I started getting frequent shut
downs of the desktop saying, " A problem has been detected and windows
has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
PAGE_FULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA......"

I replaced the motherboard with PCchips M848A. The problem persists.
After spending some time to figure out the cause of the problem, I
concluded that the CPU is the culprit. Is there any program I can use
to test it?

Do damaged CPUs cause problems like mine?
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How could the computer display the error message without a functioning
CPU?

Did you replace the CPU fan? You mentioned "CPU fans," as if your CPU
had more than one, but I've never seen a decently built CPU cooler with
more than one fan.

You also didn't mention anything about your power supply.
 
baddley said:
I had been running a desktop with Asus A7M266, AMD Athlon 1.4GHz and
750 MB, 266Mhz DDR memory chips when I noticed the CPU fans
intermittently malfunctioning. Then I started getting frequent shut
downs of the desktop saying, " A problem has been detected and windows
has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
PAGE_FULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA......"

I replaced the motherboard with PCchips M848A. The problem persists.
After spending some time to figure out the cause of the problem, I
concluded that the CPU is the culprit. Is there any program I can use
to test it?

Do damaged CPUs cause problems like mine?
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Try running it with one stick of memory in it. although as the other poster
says, I would suspect the power supply. It's very unlikely to be the CPU and
unfortunately, having to put your bits in a PC Chips mobo isn't going to
help diagnosing the problem any.

SteveH
 
Try running it with one stick of memory in it. although as the other poster
says, I would suspect the power supply. It's very unlikely to be the CPU and
unfortunately, having to put your bits in a PC Chips mobo isn't going to
help diagnosing the problem any.

SteveH
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Yes, I tried to run one stick of memory. It did not help. I have a new
Antec 500W Power supply.
 
How could the computer display the error message without a functioning
CPU?
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I thought the CPU was partially damaged.
Did you replace the CPU fan? You mentioned "CPU fans," as if your CPU
had more than one, but I've never seen a decently built CPU cooler with
more than one fan.
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I am sorry that "fans" was a typo. I have only one CPU fan.
You also didn't mention anything about your power supply.
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I have a brand-new Antec Power Supply.
 
Hello,

What you describe sounds a lot like a problem with Winodows.

You mention the CPU "fans" are "intermittently malfunctioning" could
you actually describe what is wrong with them?

The only two hardware problems that cause the problems you describe
are:
1. Bad RAM
2. Dieing harddisk

You can do a disk check with both ticks checked (basically a surface
scan) and see if it finds and bad sectors to test if #2 is the case and
download a memtest utility to test #1.

But short of these unlikely hardware problems, you are looking at a
problematic driver or virus / spyware causing instability in your
windows installation.

If you are certain your CPU has a problem, there is a diagnostic
program called HotCPU tester, if you get your hands on it, it will help
you proove that to yourself, or proove you that something else is a
problem... or possibly it will find no problems and you are looking at
a program causing instability.

baddley je napisal:
 
DustWolf said:
Hello,

What you describe sounds a lot like a problem with Winodows.

You mention the CPU "fans" are "intermittently malfunctioning" could
you actually describe what is wrong with them?

The only two hardware problems that cause the problems you describe
are:
1. Bad RAM
2. Dieing harddisk
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Not true, I've seen the "PAGE_FULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA......" error caused by
problems with video cards as well.

SteveH
 
baddley said:
I had been running a desktop with Asus A7M266, AMD Athlon 1.4GHz and
750 MB, 266Mhz DDR memory chips when I noticed the CPU fans
intermittently malfunctioning. Then I started getting frequent shut
downs of the desktop saying, " A problem has been detected and windows
has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
PAGE_FULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA......"

I replaced the motherboard with PCchips M848A. The problem persists.
After spending some time to figure out the cause of the problem, I
concluded that the CPU is the culprit. Is there any program I can use
to test it?

Do damaged CPUs cause problems like mine?
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Damaged CPUs usually just don't work at all.

But if your CPU fan is not working properly then an overheating CPU can
easily cause the symptom you describe.
 
OK 500W antec is good for power requirements of your system, I would
be willing to bet it's the RAM, but an overheating CPU can
"forget" to mark entries in RAM as paged out so it hits it,
tries a PF, no entry CRASH

Check RAM, HD, CPU
And get rid of the PC_Chips mobo...lol
 
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