MOBO vs CPU

[iecus]

Guys I some season techs to let me know what came 1st the mobo or the
cpu. If you have a bad cpu and put it in a good board will the board go
bad or if you have a bad board w/ a good cpu would the cpu go bad?
reason for my question is I was never able to truely test this theory of
mine and always got conflicting stories. I have some boards and cpu's I
was going through. I found a cpu's and mothers board and the one that
worked, w/ mobo and cpu. I took the cpu out and place it in another MB
that should have been around the same speed most of my boards where amd
duran capable and the cpu is a duran, will it didn't work so I place the
cpu back in the what was the working combo now I'm not getting a post.
I'm assuming the MB that didn't work cause the cpu to over heat and now
it's not working.

thanks.

 

[DatabaseBen]

A) sounds like you have gone through and have a bunch of mobo's and cpu's
surely your experience with a multitude of boards and chips, should speak
for itself by now.

B) Basically, any component installed on a "shorted" motherboard could be
"zapped" as well. This however, depends where the short on the motherboard
is. But for this example lets presume the mobo is "fried".

and

C) If a cpu is defective, zapped or incompatiable, (even though it fits in
the socket), it simply won't work on a functional motherboard. It would be
difficult for a cpu to short a motherboard, unless the pins were somehow
shorted together as well. However, this is unlikely but could be done by
several methods that I know and won't disclose herein.

D) Although I am not sure of this, but it seems to reason that an
incompatiable cpu that fits into the socket of
a good motherboard won't incur any damage. The motherboard bios won't
recognize the cpu/hardware, at least
with todays technology and safeguards designed into the components. But I
could be mistaken about this particular observation.

THEREFORE my disclaimer for the next 3 dozen postings with opposing and
sometimes hostile viewpoints
is that I assume that the motherboard in my example paragraph (D) is 100%
free of defects.

Hope this helps...