Can a bad processor kill a motherboard?

[Retro2001]

As the title states, I have a processer that I may or may not have killed (thermal damage!) and I'm wondering if it could damage a motherboard. My motherboard died (voltage regulation circitry I think) at the same time that I may have killed the processor and I'm just wary about testing the potentally bad Athlon in a known good motherboard.


Peace,
will

 

[kronik1]

I once lost a motherboard to a video card so I assume if the processor is screwed and in some way electrically gimped, then it could possibly do the same thing. Either buy a really cheap mobo or take it somewhere and let them test it..

 

[techietam]

Yes it can.
As a matter of fact, we have 1GHz P3 sitting on the shelf that does it.
About 7 years ago I've seen something worse than that.
It was a chain reaction - oard kills CPU, that CPU kills new board and so on...

After killing 3 motherboards and 3 processors I stopped. I wonder how they
tested those parts at manufacturer when they got those back.