How confirm a dead processor and get a new one?

I have a desktop HP bought three years ago. The specs are below.

The processor seems to be dead. The hard drive is fine. Food seems to be OK, the Green LED on the back being activated

The Office was beautiful, but he gave me sounds of fans inside. So I turned off, looked inside to look for trouble, then I turned on it, the screen remained empty forever. The motherboard seems to show signs of life because the light on the Ethernet Jack is on. I open the heatsink and removed the processor and clean dust and residues, but the office is still dead.

My questions are: how to confirm the processor died before ordering a new, and the second question is what processor to get? Is it a sold by Wal-Mart compatible? It uses the same socket

http://www.Walmart.com/IP/AMD-Athlon-II-X2-dual-core-260-3.2GHz-processor/15746974

------------------------------ desktop specs ------------------------------

HP Pavilion p6247c-b desktop PC

Base processor
Athlon ll X 4 620 (P) 2.6 GHz (95W)
•4000 MHz HyperTransport 3.0
•Socket AM3

Chipset
GeForce 9100

Motherboard
•The: Pegatron
•Motherboard name: M2N78 - LA
•HP/Compaq motherboard name: Violet-GL8E

Memory
6 GB installed memory
Maximum allowed 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) (64-bit operating system)
Speed supported PC2-6400 MB/s
Pin type 240, DDR2

The problem was a defective cable connecting the hard drive to the SATA port on the motherboard. I swapped the cables with CD-ROM drive and it works now.

Tags: HP Desktops

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