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processor minus heatsink

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bugboy

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I'm kind of an idiot. I was replacing the heatsink on my Athlon 1600XP with one of those new quieter vantec TMD fan/heatsink combos because my old combo had my computer sounding like a vacum cleaner. After I had the old heatsink off, I managed to knee the power switch and turn the computer on.
I know, I know I thought it was unplugged.
Anyway, bye bye processor.
Does anyone know if I might have damaged the motherboard (ECS kKS5A) or power supply with that move? How could I reliably check while waiting for my new processor to arrive?
 
More than likely you fried the motherboard and even possibly other componets in there, video card, soundcard. Not sure about the power supply though.
 
Been there.....athlons fry very quickly but it didn't damage anything else......nasty smell though.

Corm
 
If it was only a few seconds, then more than likely only the processor fried. I've done the same thing on accident twice - once with a Duron 1200 and again with an XP1600 😱 Both times only the cpu was bad.
 
Thanks for the input everybody.
It turns out that only the processor fried.
I'm up and running again.
 
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