Did I fry my CPU or Mboard?

[Cynicism]

Had this blue core tbird 1-gig (FOP 32, NOT oc'ed) for about 4 months now on a msi k7t pro2a and 128meg crucial. Was just playing CS and all of a sudden the computer shuts off. Now I can't get it to start up again as it seems it won't restart even after I've reset the cmos. Just curious as to whether its the CPU that's fried, or the board. This happened right after I put the case top over it after I've left the case top off for the last 4 months.

Basically is there a way to find out if its the board that's F'ed up or the cpu? All the other parts check out fine and it just amazes me that a little thing like putting the case top on would cause this...Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[techfuzz]

Sounds like you pulled a wire loose or somehow ungrounded the motherboard? Strange... Try pulling EVERYTHING from the case and booting only with a video card. If that works, start reattaching more components and see if one component is bad.

Also, you say you have an MSI board, some MSI boards have a series of LEDs called Diagnostic LEDs just behind the CPU on the edge of the board. I don't know if yours has them or not, but when you power up the board you can check which lights are green/red and figure out what is the problem might be. Check with the mb manual on how to interpret these LEDs.

 

[gordita]

best thing is to recede everything.
boot with just the cpu,one stick of memory,hdd and video card.

then slowly, start putting in cards and the drives.

good luck