unlikely to be the mobo, but be sure you applied the heatsink correctly,
I've seen burned CPUs because the heatsink wasn't properly applied on. Some
CPU fans are really easy to make mistake, if you didn't pay attention. I
alway double check (make sure the surface of CPU die is all contacted by
heatsink, make sure the fan power is plugged in). Also, sometimes heatsink
can be covered by a film, make sure you remove it before use. In fact, just
today, our service dept received a burned CPU because the customer didn't
remove the film...

Last but not least, don't save few $ to buy cheap heatsink, those cheap one
won't keep your CPU cool.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Boston" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 3:36 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Burnt Processor


> 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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