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Warranty suggestions?

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GinterVonGlock

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A lapped retail CPU. Clearly the markings have been sanded down for maximum surface imperfection removal. Now defunct (BIOS doesn't post, but displays a PARITY error).

Worth trying to replace under warranty, or is this a futile exercise and, more, of a joke?
 
I would think as long as they can read the serial number and such that they would RMA. Hell, why not give it a try?
 
DooKey, clever, haven't thought of that.

Crosshairs, I thought there would be a catch. It served its purpose well. Q6600 2.4 OC'd to 3.6 for one and a half years.

I now welcome the Q9550. Hope it serves me well.
 
wait... a parity error?

That doesn't seem like a CPU issue, to me.

Is your mobo going out, or is it a RAM error?
 
jeremyshaw said:
wait... a parity error?

That doesn't seem like a CPU issue, to me.

Is your mobo going out, or is it a RAM error?
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It's definitely a CPU issue. At first, it pointed to the MB. But I replaced the MB with an identical one, same symptoms. I even had two BIOS chips overnighted from ASUS. No go. I replaced the CPU with an E8400 and it worked fine.

It's a weird CPU behavior. It "seems" to be working, but is throwing strange MB errors. I know it's fried. RIP Q6600. Or, more like, vegge in peace.
 
People still lap their cpu? I did that on an AMD Thunderbird CPU but not since then. Waste of time and effort IMO.
 
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