Kentucky Fried Mobo - Odds of CPU Survival?

Today I have been mostly killing my Neo 2 Platinum.
I borrowed the vid card for another machine and after replacement the thing wouldn't boot. Power to fans - Dbracket stuck at early chipset - no beeps - powers on and off with case switch. Faint burning smell from NorthBridge AGP slot area. The same faint burning smell that comes from the beyond economical repair bin at work. Smashing. Tried part swapping for a couple of hours, stripping to basics, clearing cmos etc.
I won't be sorry to bin the board after all the gart driver fun, odd temps, your drive didn't really need a master boot record and Corecentre doesn't support your motherboard aggro over the last year or so. All the other components are now living with an AthlonXP or P3 for a bit.
Thing is, I don't have another board to test the Athlon 64 on. Have you killed your board? Did the cpu survive the process? It looks ok, doesn't smell or rattle or anything...
TIA

Quote from: blazing storm on 31-August-05, 06:31:55
I was in a similar situation a while back with a Socket A mobo and cpu. To test the cpu I bought a PC Chips mobo for under £7 to save frying another mobo. Can you buy something similar but S939, do PC Chips make S939 boards?
That's what PC Chips is good for...
No doubt...
My 1st ever build was a Socket A ECS board about 5 years ago... I wouldn't inflict one of those upon my worst enemy.

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