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Pentium4 Socket 478 anomaly

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RedBearX

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Several months ago I shipped a computer down to Anaheim and FedEx completely jacked it up. The box had holes in it, and had obviously been tossed around ALOT. Of the many things that were shaking around loose inside the case, the one that turned my stomach was the processor which I found underneath the heatsink... normal except they were both in the bottom of the case, not attached to the socket as they had left. The case was bent up, the video card had busted free of the agp slot and the processor had several bent pins. In trying to straighten these pins out I accidentally broke off one of the pins. Several months later, out of sheer boredom, I tried again to straighten the pins and broke another one off... lol.. So it seemed that I was doomed. Today however, I managed to semi-force the processor down into the socket. and it did pop in, seemingly without breaking or bending any new pins. On the first try the computer booted right up! Even while the processor was missing TWO PINS!?!? So, I ran a disk check, a disk defragment and tooled around with a couple programs.... everything seemed normal.

HOWEVER, surely there is a weakness there. Surely the freakin thing can;t continue to work completely normally eh? My question to all of you jokers is: What program could I use to test out this processor to tell me wether it is TRUELY functioning the way it should?

Also: Is there a reference that I could find that might tell me what those pins control?
 
There's a very good chance of it still working, out of all the 478 pins, you wouldn't even begin to believe how many of those pins are nothing more than keying.
 
if everything is working fine and dandy ...those pins either did nothing in the first place or you jsut got lucky..
 
Well, I knew that there were pins that did nothing, or in some cases, nothing important. However, I never imagined that I might be lucky enough to have only broken two pins, in totally different areas and have it still work. Bizarre... Anyway, I ran the two cpu tests in sisoft sandra 2005 and it came in almost identically to the reference pentium 4 1.6 cpu that sandra lists.

As for FedEx, I hope there is a special place in hell for the people that wrote their insurance policies. I insured that comp for 300 dollars and I had to FIGHT to get 100 out of them. This after they thrashed the case, the cpu, and the hard drive. Of course now the cpu works. So kids, just remember, insurance don't mean CRAP when it comes to shipping FedEx. They told me that they had unilateral power to grant only as much as they wanted to grant when it comes to inurance claims. So, in my eyes, it is a scam.

Consider yourself warned.
 
Another thing... The CPU is running at about 107 degress farenheit under moderate load. This is a Pentium 4 socket 478 with either a 400 or 533mhz fsb. Not sure what core, but is that normal?
 
You insured it for 300.

THey jacked it up

You get 300 dollars.


If not, definately speak to a lawyer, Some will even give you free advice in hopes that you'll use them if things have to progress further.
 
RedBearX said:
Another thing... The CPU is running at about 107 degress farenheit under moderate load. This is a Pentium 4 socket 478 with either a 400 or 533mhz fsb. Not sure what core, but is that normal?
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My 478 3.0E (prescott) runs at about 45C under full load, which is 109F, so 107 isn't bad at all, and its definately not dangerous.
 
awesome, thanks... i think mine is running a little cooler now that I cut down on the arctic silver.. I have a tendency to use too much

and yeah, FedEx is on my short list of companies to avoid.
 
This thread might be a little old but ..does cpuz read that proc correctly and does it oc still or even better ? could it ? Are all this pins functions known/listed? just curious.
 
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