You don't mention if it is by itself and you're just looking at it or if
it is inserted into a motherboard. If in your hand, you can't tell
unless, like for an AMD, it got burned up because the heatsink came off
it. If in a motherboard, the BIOS text and/or beep codes should
indicate a bad CPU; see http://www.bioscentral.com.

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"ck26" wrote in message
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As I've got a pending problem that is being discussed in another
thread that
may be related to the above, I wanted to ask more generally in this
seperate
thread: how can you tell if a CPU has died?