Re: Time to fix my PC


The CPU is from an oem? Was there a number of oem'd Athlon64
2800+ that were defective?

Jim

darklight wrote:
question is your CPU: (754-pin) AMD ATHLON64 2800+ Processor
a retail boxed processer or oem if its oem then it's likely
a faulty cpu
.

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