The wire trick on Nforce2 boards is meant for 133/266 fsb cpu's.... I accidently did it on my MSI Nforce2 board with a 166/333 cpu. I fried the CPU, and on the next bootup the MB's dbracket sent back the error "Damaged CPU". Well I got a new cpu today, but no startup, I got the same code, damaged CPU.... Do you think the wire trick that fried my cpu could have also fried the motherboard? It just doesnt seem possible, since the wire affects the MB the same way no matter what CPU is in the socket.... Ya know?