How can you tell if you burnt your processor?

[stockjock]

I just put together a 1GHz system. I was going through the normal process of Fdisking a new drive and firing the computer up for the first and after the fdisk, I was going to format the drive, which meant restarting the computer. It would not restart...nothing, nada...
I have tried removing everything and putting it back in. So I'm wondering if the processor got burnt. how can I tell if that is what happend. Its a 1GHz Tbird. I examined the chip and all I see is that its a little dark on the silicon on one spot below the core, but not black or anything, nor did I smell anything....

 

[dkozloski]

Please tell me you are not another one of those guys that was going to try out your new box for just a little while without a HS/F.

 

[stockjock]

No, no..I'm not that dumb. I had thin layer of thermal compound and a stock H/S and 40CFM coolermaster fan on it....so I don't think heat was the problem....
Just to let you know, I don't see anything on the chip like the thread showing some burnt processors. There are no black spots anywhere.....I'm really hoping its the motherboard...

 

[dkozloski]

It looks like the old fallback position. Take everything out of the case, set up the motherboard on a nonconductive surface like an old magazine, install just the CPU with HS/F, some ram and a video card. Before you plug in the power supply connector reset the CMOS. Hook up your monitor and the power supply, short the power on connector pins on the motherboard together with a screwdriver, and see what you get.

 

[heffe734]

remove the cpu and see if there are any slight cracks or black marks on your cpu...i think if you had fried it...you would've smelled.