I think the Pentium D CPU I bought for my XP machine just died - the PC 
had been failing more and more ever since I put it in, then today it 
stopped POSTing entirely (;´Д`)

I thought it might be the motherboard finely giving up the ghost, but I 
put the old P4 CPU back in and now it boots perfectly again ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

Sayonara, silky smooth Dual Core™ experience...

> I think the Pentium D CPU I bought for my XP machine just died - the PC 
> had been failing more and more ever since I put it in, then today it 
> stopped POSTing entirely (;´Д`)
> I thought it might be the motherboard finely giving up the ghost, but I 
> put the old P4 CPU back in and now it boots perfectly again ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
> Sayonara, silky smooth Dual Core™ experience...

It has waited in some dusty box for more than a decade, so it would get bought
by you and used to run games as old has itself. It had no regrets (´人｀)

Reference: 2022/07/15(Fri) 23:54:48

> > I think the Pentium D CPU I bought for my XP machine just died - the PC 
> > had been failing more and more ever since I put it in, then today it 
> > stopped POSTing entirely (;´Д`)
> > I thought it might be the motherboard finely giving up the ghost, but I 
> > put the old P4 CPU back in and now it boots perfectly again ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
> > Sayonara, silky smooth Dual Core™ experience...
> It has waited in some dusty box for more than a decade, so it would get bought
> by you and used to run games as old has itself. It had no regrets (´人｀)

That is a nice thought, though the shitty "2006 prebuilt"-tier CPU 
cooler I was using in the middle of a global heatwave (I don't even 
have AC (;´Д`)) while trying to run a game that seemed to double as a 
CPU torture test probably didn't help...

I did buy a l33t cooler for it, but I couldn't install it - the back-
plate from the old one is stuck to the motherboard with some kind of 
strong adhesive, and it seemed like I might break something if I used 
any more force to try and remove it (;´Д`)

Reference: 2022/07/16(Sat) 04:56:49