I have had headaches over the past month with my new system. random Win XP blue screens of death, problems with audigy 2 (drivers updated), etc. I fumbled with my MSI K8T Neo pretty badly when I built the comp and am afraid I damaged it. I finally gave up today and ordered a MSI K8N Platinum.
btw, I have troubledshooted some, including memtest. pretty sure my memory is ok. anyway, some of the BSOD messages I have received include "machine check exception" and "kernel stack inpage error."
what I am wondering is the CPU could possibly be "defective." I assumed that if my CPU isnt dead on arrival, there isnt anything wrong with it. Is this assumption correct? Or could there potentially be a defect or problem with my athlon 64 3000?
btw, I have troubledshooted some, including memtest. pretty sure my memory is ok. anyway, some of the BSOD messages I have received include "machine check exception" and "kernel stack inpage error."
what I am wondering is the CPU could possibly be "defective." I assumed that if my CPU isnt dead on arrival, there isnt anything wrong with it. Is this assumption correct? Or could there potentially be a defect or problem with my athlon 64 3000?