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can a damaged cpu destroy the motherboard?

Definitely, ive had 3 mobos killed my one socket a chip. RIP: NF7-S, M848ALU + KR7A-RAID.
 
wow, i didn't expect that!

My mates alienware computer had died just a few weeks after the warrenty ran out, and they've been totally unhelpful in trying to solve the problem. He's got a guy from his mum's work trying to fix it, but so far unsuccesfully (bought a new mobo and that hasn't solved the problem) there definately seems to be a problem with the PSU since his won't even get any life out the system, but others get it atleast to power up (but not post)

There's no beep codes or anything (the manual says something about the mobo talking to you, but we've not heard anything from it yet) so I think the next course of action is to RMA the new board (its never worked) and buy a new PSU... and hopefully the cpu aint gonna kill anything else... thoughts???

(I'll try and get the full spec posted later)
 
If a machine doesn't power up you should always replace the PSU first ;)

For some reason ATX PSU's have never been that reliable (Vs AT if your old enough :p )
 
Matt Russell said:
is it likely that a damaged cpu could destroy the motherboard?

Cheers,
Matt

PS CPU is Athlon X2 3800+ (socket 939) and motherboard is asus something or others (two)
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yes, ive got 5 dead boards here that can proove that theory too... :(
 
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