Hi,

Hope someone can help with this question.

Is it possible for a dodgy CPU to fry a motherboard, the reason I ask Is that I swapped a CPU in a test board & it didn’t work, so I put the old one back in, but that didn’t work either & now the board won’t boot at all.

I realise that it might just be coincidental that the board failed at that time & it’s also possible that static caused the fault but it seems like the CPU is most likely responsible.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Regards

CDH

It certainly could damage the CPU slot and possibly the whole mobo

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Originally Posted by ScottGem

It certainly could damage the CPU slot and possibly the whole mobo

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Thanks for the reply ScottGem.

Is this a rare event? Also is there any way of testing a CPU before it goes into its socket?
Don't suppose there is but I could be wrong.

Cheers

CDH

It isn't a common event. I'm sure there are bench tools to test a CPU, but they would be a tech pro's tools

Quick reply & helpful. Cheers

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Originally Posted by ScottGem

It isn't a common event. I'm sure there are bench tools to test a CPU, but they would be a tech pro's tools

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Thank for the help ScottGem. Much appreciated.

One other thing to consider is to make sure that processor was put in with Pin 1 in the proper 'hole'

Pin 1 on the chip usually is identified with a small dot on one corner of the chip and that dot has to match up with "dot" in the processor slot on the MB.

Of course it would be possible to damage the chip if inserted improperly.

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Originally Posted by seahwk83

One other thing to consider is to make sure that processor was put in with Pin 1 in the proper 'hole'

Pin 1 on the chip usually is identified with a small dot on one corner of the chip and that dot has to match up with "dot" in the processor slot on the MB.

Of course it would be possible to damage the chip if inserted improperly.

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Thanks for the response seahwk83, I usually try not to do that. :)