Could a possible bad CPU fry my mobo?

[ZooKeeper]

I have a cpu and I'm not sure if it is fried or not, if I put it in a motherboard to test it, could it possibly fry the mobo if the cpu does happen to be bad?

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[Guillermo]

If the Mobo is new you have less posibilities to frie it, they have systems to prevent the damage of fried CPU, but my old ASUS A7V (VIA KT133) died because a overheated processor.

 

[pIII_Man]

It may, probably not because of the overcurrent protection mentioned, however if there is a short in the internal traces of the cpu it could cause dammage...but would probably be covered by warantee, just say you pluged in a cpu and it went crazy and they should accept it.


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