# Tech Advice Needed

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**Created:** [December 18, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tech-advice-needed/261852 "2011-12-18T16:19:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![bwe45](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bwe45](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bwe45)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tech-advice-needed/261852/3 "2011-12-18T16:34:32Z")

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> [@Who here works at localnet?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-here-works-at-localnet/47240/110):
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> Sounds like your CPU is shot. Run a CPU burn in test. If you dont know what that is, its a test that puts the cpu under load for a period of time. If the system turns off during the test, you have your answer.

Ill give it a shot, thanks man.

just being hardware illiterate, if the CPU is shot, what should be my next course of action from there?

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