fried chips and MB

[outhouse]

I have not fried a chip yet [knock on wood] but i'm curious if i should recomend telling someone who might have a faulty chip to use it on another PC to check to make sure the original chip is not fried what i'm worried about is that can a fried proccesor ruin a perfectly good MB or say a staticly fried chip ruin a MB if installed for sake of just knowing if the chip is fried???

[Super]

I've seen a fried chip once. It was a Slot A Celeron 333MHz. It had the silvery stuff around it (mostly at the sides), I don't know if it damaged the slot key, because it was one of those chips, which are mounted on the slot key, and I think if it would melt on the Socket 370, than probably some of that stuff would get onto the MB or around it...

[Liquid_N2]

If the chip is fried then it won't be doing much more cooking, i have put plenty of suspect chips into other boards, that the only way to check.

All you have to do is make sure yuour quick. If it doens't get to POST or make any noise at all then dump the chip, what i am carefull of is putting a new chip into a motherboard that has had a chip cook in it.

Check your other components on the board for burning such as around the resisters and capciters, also check to make sure it is not shorting out on the casing, etc.

Hope this helps.

[Placid]

Its possible but not likley.

[outhouse]

Placid (May 14, 2001 12:23 p.m.):
Its possible but not likley.

hey hows it going placid whats not likley?

[Placid]

[b]hey hows it going placid whats not likley?
That a motherboard would be damaged by a bad cpu:)