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<pre wrap="">On 07/03/10 08:28, John Crowhurst wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>I've never seen a bad processor, so I've no experience of when one goes
<span class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>bad. Its usually motherboard.<span
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<pre wrap="">The processor is designed with an over temperature shutdown circuit. And
certainly the immediate symptom is that it becomes very slow in the way
you describe. If it does not recover when you have good working fan on
it and the heatsink is well mounted on the processor then, yes, it is
probable that the processor has suffered permanent damage.
Generally the over temperature circuit on the silicon does save the
processor.
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