Damage?

[Rudy Kazuti]

If a CPU goes bad is it possible for it to damage the mobo in any way?

Rudy

 

[John]

If a CPU goes bad is it possible for it to damage the mobo in any way?

Rudy

Anything is possible but it seems kind of rare for a CPU "to go bad"
and if it did for it to damage the MB. Most of the time people think
that and post here it seems like it always something else.

In fact one obvious thing the power supply --- everyone suspects that
too cause each new generation of vid cards and MB/cpus requires better
and better PSes and there are tons of really crappy PSes out there. So
youd think there would be an epidemic of problems caused by the PS.

Ive had lots of problems with my MBs like everyone else and everytime
Ive blamed the PS it was something else too. Ive actually probably
only had the PS really be at fault once out of maybe 3o times when I
suspected the PS and that was ages ago when I bought a REAL cheap case
and PS for someone else to save money and I regretted it. Of course
that doesnt mean go out and buy a 5 dollar case and power supply for
your 6800 Ultra vid card and AMD 64.

What are the symptoms? Hanging?

 

[John]

What are the symptoms? Hanging?

Im assuming of course you dont mean going bad by burning up to crisp
by not having the heatsink seated properly or something. Extreme heat
obviously could cause MB damage too I guess.

 

[Rudy Kazuti]

I have a system I built with an AMD 3200+ 400fsb. It was giving me reboots,
hangs and headaches. It finaly froze solid and when I powered down and
rebooted there was no post. Tried everything in the book and nothing. Bought
another CPU then a different brand mobo. The origional CPU works in the new
motherboard. I was just wondering if it was defective weather it could do
any damage. I assume it just wouldn't work??

 

[John]

I have a system I built with an AMD 3200+ 400fsb. It was giving me reboots,
hangs and headaches. It finaly froze solid and when I powered down and
rebooted there was no post. Tried everything in the book and nothing. Bought
another CPU then a different brand mobo. The origional CPU works in the new
motherboard. I was just wondering if it was defective weather it could do
any damage. I assume it just wouldn't work??

Yeah if it was it probably just wouldnt work but I just read your
other threads and you said it didnt boot up -- dead and you just said
it now works so its defective right?

All I can say is lots of MBs Ive had worked REALLy weird when I got
them but after you clear the cmos and set things up right they seemed
to settle down and then work.

Are you sure you had the bios settings right? And what brand type was
the motheboard. There are crappy brands. And even the good ones can be
buggy. I got a biostar from Newegg refurb nforce2 microatx and that
thing was flipping out -- hard to get even into the bios until I
flashed it to a newer version and then it ran perfectly. It also did
the dead act = no video screen etc.

My asus acted the same way but then settled down after an hour so of
clearing the cmos etc.

 

[Apollo]

I have a system I built with an AMD 3200+ 400fsb. It was giving
me reboots,
hangs and headaches. It finaly froze solid and when I powered
down and
rebooted there was no post. Tried everything in the book and
nothing. Bought
another CPU then a different brand mobo. The origional CPU works
in the new
motherboard. I was just wondering if it was defective weather it
could do
any damage. I assume it just wouldn't work??

I would say your problems were caused by either a low spec psu or
memory errors, these are unlikely to have caused physical damage
to anything, a cmos reset will probably fix the mobo.

If you have re-used the memory test it with memtest86 for an hour
or two, any errors and you will have instability, reboots and
likely data corruption to look forward to again.
http://www.memtest86.com/

 

[Rudy Kazuti]

The MOBO that wouldn't boot was a gigabyte GA 7N400 pro rev.2, the one I
just got is an asus A7N8X-E deluxe. I thought it was the CPU but now I think
I was wrong. I tried clearing CMOS with the jumper, it wouldn't post and I
couldn't get into the bios. Is it a good idea to update the BIOS in a new
board? PS The gigabyte was working fine for about 2 weeks, BIOS settings
were correct for fsb, ram etc. Newegg is sending me another gigabyte (rma)

 

[Rudy Kazuti]

Thanks for all the input. My PSU is a thermaltake butterfly 480w. I'm going
to do an itensive test of the memory as suggested.
Thanks again