Dragon Mech's new computer

[crustyasp46]

Waiting----Waiting

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[PMJPlay]

I can't wait for you to set it up and show it off...welcome to the 21st century my friend

[Dragon Mech]

yesterday my computer was processed through the sorting facility in Springfield Missouri, which is 50+ miles west of Mansfield. this suggests that i will get it today!! i will take pictures of the outside of the computer along with a few of the inside and post them here. i will also be in the IRC wednesday morning between 7:00 AM and 12:00 PM US Central Daylight Time. WOOHOO!!!!! let the overly excited, really bad dancing begin!!

[crustyasp46]

Hope you got it today??????

[Hot Trout]

Did ya get it, wel did ya .... did ya?

[Dragon Mech]

ok ladies and gentlemen (and that fuzzy monster in the corner ).
i am proud to announce that i did get my computer yesterday. but before you all start throwing confetti and start with the marry making, i do have some bad news. sometime during shipping, the cpu became dislodged from the motherboard and was allowed to rattle around in the computer. as a result of this, many of the pins have been bent. some more severe than others. while i was attempting to straighten the pins, one of them broke. rendering the cpu useless and dead .
so untell i can find a replacement cpu, the computer will be put in a safe place as to avoid any futher damage (and loss of sanity). but i have taken some pictures of the computer and i will tell you all as much as i know about it.
Specs:
HP Media Center PC model: MCPC m8000
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9500 Quad-core processor clocked at 2.2GHz
RAM: 3GB of DDR2 DIMM RAM
Video: intergrated VGA output
unknown Nvidia Graphics card with DVI, HDMI and S-Video output
Audio: intergrated audio with surround sound capabilities (either 5.1 or 7.1) with digital coaxial output
Slots: one PCIE 16x
two PCIE 1x
one conventional PCI
USB: six USB 2.0 ports
two FireWire ports of unknow type
one personal media drive bay
DVD-R DL/CD-RW Ultraspeed disk drive
two SATA Seagate barracuda 360GB HDD's
four SATA II ports
one PATA IDE port
possibly one floopy drive port

and now for the pictures

look how pretty it is :3

media card slots

DVD/CD burner

front ports(two USB 2.0, one FireWire, headphone and mic jacks)

rear ports( the plastic cover was over the VGA port)

more photos to come

[Hot Trout]

Good, what about some pics of the inside?

[Dragon Mech]

close up of the audio and video ports.

the "guts" of the beast

secondary HDD (360GB SATA Seagate Barracuda)

SATA ports

three 1GB DDR2 DIMM RAM

just a few more to go....

[crustyasp46]

Just did a local search of Kijiji for a CPU, no luck . But found this out about the 9500 :

AMD Phenom X4 9500

Core revisions BA and B2, which correspond to part numbers ending with "BGC" and "BGD" respectively, had a Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB) bug where, under certain conditions, the processor could lock up when loading cached TLB data. This bug was referenced in AMD documentation as errata 254: "Internal Resource Livelock Involving Cached TLB Reload". Temporary bug fix was to disable TLB caching, which had negative impact on processor performance. The temporary fix (or patch) was implemented in BIOS, and was also included into operating systems. On some motherboards it was possible to disable the patch in BIOS and thus increase performance by 10% on average. In cases, when disabling the patch was not supported by a motherboard, or when the patch was enabled by operating system regardless of the BIOS settings, it was still possible to disable the patch by manipulating MSR registers directly with the help of software tools.

The person I got the computer from complained about a lot of freeze up, so am wondering if this may have been the problem? Although it never froze here when I had it.

Also wondering how many computers were sold with this faulty CPU, taken in for warranty work and told that there was no problem or they had a virus and/or told it was some other problem not covered by warranty and ended up paying extra for what was a faulty computer??

Consumer ripped off again.

Info @ :

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http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-Phenom%20X4%209500%20-%20HD9500WCJ4BGD%20%28HD9500WCGDBOX%29.html

[SE7EN]

so it would be a socket AM2 (maybe AM2+) and should be fairly easy to find a replacement, even if not the exact CPU.