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Old 11-21-2007, 12:18 PM   #1 (permalink)
madmatt10583
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Bad cpu?

I am building another pc with some old parts that i have lying about. I have a 3ghz northwood p4 cpu. When i boot it up it gets as far as the windows loading and thenwill restart. Sometimes i'll get a blue screen. I clocked it back to 2ghz and now it's running perfect. This happened when i tried it on other mobos aswell. Other cpus run fine so it's not the rest of the system. My first thought was maybe i need better cooling but the one i'm using says p4's upto 3.2ghz. I've tried other stock coolers and the same thing happens.
Hope someone could help me with this problem.
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