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Date:
5/11/2009 2:48:56 PM
Subject:
Good news/bad news
The good news is that the video card is good. I swapped it into another machine and it worked fine. The bad news is that the field is wide open again as far as identifying the malfunction. I've already done the one-RAM-stick-at-a-time test, so I don't think it's the memory (what are the odds of getting three brand new sticks that are all bad?), which AFAIK narrows it to the motherboard or the CPU. I took the heat sink off and looked at the CPU to make sure I'd installed it correctly, but the thing is keyed so there's only one way to put it in the socket.
Is there any way to tell for sure which component is bad? The other PC has a different CPU socket, so I can't do a CPU swap.
