weird cpu

[Hiatro]

Hello, so i just got an ASUS P7H55 board with i5-670 CPU, i installed RAM 2x2 1333MHz and tried to Install Windows on Samsung 860 EVO SSD, so i booted up (it was kinda weird at this moment cuz it was so slow and the DRAM led was on for too long and everything was so slow) and somehow i got into the windows 10 install, i started it and in preparing files to installation i got freeze in 3% and I was wondering why, i found plenty of solutions but nothing helped, when i came to something that was new and could possibly help me, the pc was only slow, until then sometimes it was normally fast and sometimes just slow, and i cant get even into BIOS, and if I do i cant use keyboard, i was searching for the memory problem and i found that it could be faulty cpu, so i dismantled it and looked on the pins, on the one was some kinda dirt, so i tried to get it off with screwdiver which wasnt really helping and then cleaned with the tissue and alcohol, everything is the same, is it faulty CPU?

[Fasauceome]

Since it's an old system, did you check for damage? Possibly bent pins or a missing capacitor? Also switching to one dimm of ram might help.

[Hiatro]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

Since it's an old system, did you check for damage? Possibly bent pins or a missing capacitor?

one pin is a quarter of milimeter off but i dnot think thats the problem, i dont think it would even work without capacitor but no i dont see anything

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Hiatro said:

one pin is a quarter of milimeter off but i dnot think thats the problem, i dont think it would even work without capacitor but no i dont see anything

The symptoms sound similar to my experiences with a bad motherboard, but unfortunately it could either firmware or hardware.

 

Updating the BIOS could potentially fix it, but in this case it's a little risky so save it for a last resort.

[Hiatro]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

The symptoms sound similar to my experiences with a bad motherboard, but unfortunately it could either firmware or hardware.

 

Updating the BIOS could potentially fix it, but in this case it's a little risky so save it for a last resort.

the motherboard came to me with first release of bios and i updated to the newest one no problem

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Hiatro said:

the motherboard came to me with first release of bios and i updated to the newest one no problem

Well it's not impossible that the CPU is at fault. Ideally you would be able to check in another system but I doubt you'd have the hardware lying around.

 

Could you possibly try some other ram?

[Hiatro]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

Well it's not impossible that the CPU is at fault. Ideally you would be able to check in another system but I doubt you'd have the hardware lying around.

 

Could you possibly try some other ram?

nope i do not have anything of these, i can go buy second hand ram

[Fasauceome]

Just now, Hiatro said:

nope i do not have anything of these, i can go buy second hand ram

If you can find 1x4GB for cheap it's probably a good idea, I find that ram is a great thing to have spare on hand anyway.

[Hiatro]

I can steal something like that from my mom's husband pc xd and i will 2x2 for 8$

[Blue4130]

7 hours ago, Hiatro said:

 i tried to get it off with screwdiver which wasnt really helping 

In what World does this sound like a reasonable way to clean a cpu??? 

[Hiatro]

3 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

In what World does this sound like a reasonable way to clean a cpu??? 

not now, in that time, yes.. i know that this might be the problem

[Hiatro]

12 hours ago, Fasauceome said:

If you can find 1x4GB for cheap it's probably a good idea, I find that ram is a great thing to have spare on hand anyway.

isnt that PIN a little too off?

[Fasauceome]

5 hours ago, Hiatro said:

isnt that PIN a little too off?

Yeah it's slightly displaced, can't tell if it would be enough to harm functions but if you were able to bend it back into place it would be a good move

[Hiatro]

On 11/20/2020 at 4:43 PM, Fasauceome said:

Yeah it's slightly displaced, can't tell if it would be enough to harm functions but if you were able to bend it back into place it would be a good move

if i look on the pins on the CPU it has like it's spot on the pin place so i think it has contact, i can take a photo of the weird pin on CPU

[Fasauceome]

3 hours ago, Hiatro said:

if i look on the pins on the CPU it has like it's spot on the pin place so i think it has contact, i can take a photo of the weird pin on CPU

If you like

[Hiatro]

31 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

If you like

If you can zoom on it

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Hiatro said:

If you can zoom on it

It seems discolored a little, if it's dirt you could try very gently wiping it off with some isopropyl

[Hiatro]

18 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

It seems discolored a little, if it's dirt you could try very gently wiping it off with some isopropyl

it is already cleaned with alcohol

[Hiatro]

50 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

It seems discolored a little, if it's dirt you could try very gently wiping it off with some isopropyl

i don't know what to think about this PC... I was away the whole weekend, now I came and tried it just once more... It worked.. i tried to disable LAN and some other options in BIOS and from nothing i installed the Windows no problem... anyways thank you for your time