Tonight I cooked a processor...

I had an AMD Thunderbird 800Mhz processor in a Chaintech 7AJA motherboard.

The only jumpers on the board were set to auto, and I read the directions carefully, but
about 30 seconds after starting it up for the first time, the setup screen froze, and then
I smelled burning. After turning the power off and investigating, I found that the bottom
of the processor (the side with the pins) had a burnt spot, and a foul smelling oily
substance had oozed out of the top of the processor onto the heat sink.

Has anyone had this happen to them?

Do you think it is the processor, or the board?



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