ICH5 chip keeps burning

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"makman" <makhatib@gmx-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:41bf339e$1_5@alt.athenanews.com...

| I recently bought Gigabyte MB GA-8IPE1000 Pro-G, installed my old
| parts on it (VGA, HDD and Modem) and bought Intel P4 3GHZ 1MB cache
| and Dual channel RAM 400 and a new Floppy drive. When I started the PC
| everything went fine but after 4 minutes I had a problem the ICH5 was
| burnt. I took the CPU for check in the supplier shop the CPU was in
| good state. The supplier gave me another new mainboard, I installed
| everything carefully . The ICH5 was also burnt again, though I didn't
| connect any device to any port. The supplier went crazy and tested the
| CPU again on another different board and no sign of trouble , then he
| checked the RAM on another PC the RAM was OK. Then I replaced the case
| and installed another VGA, the older one was LEADTEK MY VIVO TI4200
| 128MB the new one is FX5500 128MB and the PC showed no problem
|
| Could this problem be a reason of my old VGA though it is still
| installed on my old GA-8ipe900 board and is working nicely.

Could you have accidentally grounded a portion of the mobo that shouldn't be
grounded--i.e., the bottom touching some part of the case?