My fun night messing with computers

shakenbreak · March 26, 2016

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My dad has been asking me for awhile to figure out what's wrong with this old Intel board I have that has a Core 2 Duo E8400 and 3GB of RAM. It was throwing beep codes last time I messed with it so I figured I'd try again. So I got everything setup on a mobo box, went to boot and no display or power to peripherals. I unplugged everything except the board, and one stick of ram. Same thing, except there weren't any beep codes. I tried again with some old 9400GT I have to see if onboard display was bad, same thing. So I pulled all the ram and tried again, everything turned on and still no beep codes. I'm presuming the mobo is dead.

Anyways, I have another LGA 775 mobo in a case with everything hooked up ready to go, except it was missing a CPU. So I checked and it said it was compatible with C2Ds so I swapped it over from my dead board to that one. Got everything in and ready to go. Hit the power button, sat back and let it start to boot, then I smell something burning. I look around then back at the case and lone behold a chip on the motherboard is glowing red. Powered everything down and I'm not even gonna touch that now. So yeah, what a fun and eventful night for me.

One thing I am curious about though, would that E8400 in the mobo that caught on fire be dead too?