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Old 02-08-2005, 06:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
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The odds of the CPU being bad (without blatent physical damage) is damn near bloody nil.

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If I start it without the CD in the drive it gets past the start up screen and it has just a blinking cursor up in the left corner.
Enough to show the CPU is functional

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The person that gave me this said it was diagnosed with a bad CPU
Said person is either an idiot or a genius.

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but they were going to charge X amount to fix it
Unless they have a fab facility, "fix" = "replace"
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