Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Hardware query/search

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Author: Keith Edmunds
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Hardware query/search
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:00:57 +0000, linux@??? said:

> Does anyone know of a way to distinguish a dead motherboard from a dead
> processor?


The only way to be sure is to swap either the suspect processor into a
known good motherboard or put a known good processor in the suspect
motherboard. The first is probably safer.

Are you certain that it is either the motherboard or the processor? If so,
why?

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Keith Edmunds

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