Assembly Help - Burnt CPU

[TRLeith]

Hi --

I had a Celeron 600 CPU with nothing to plug it in to, so I bought a Soyo 7VBA133U motherboard and a case for it. The CPU had been mounted in a S370-->Slot 1 adapter card. The new motherboard is S370 natively, so I took the CPU off the adapter and slipped it into place in the MB.

It didn't pass the smoke test, and I don't know why. If you look at the bottom of the thing so the "slanted" locator pins are on the right, I can see burnt pin in the sixteenth row up from the bottom-left, and the second pin in. Smells pretty bad too. Of course, it never POSTed. This was immediate when power hit it.

Has anybody any hints for me about this? I really don't want to buy enough CPUs to do trial and error. Also, is the motherboard itself likely OK?

On the bottom of the CPU it says:
intel celeron
B80524P400
128 SL37X
MALAY
L9410957-0037
(M)(C)' 98

Too clever by half...

 

[evil_homer]

Was the board set to auto configure, or were there DIP switches, and jumpers? If so did you configure them correctly?


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[TRLeith]

It is a fairly modern board that autoconfigures: <A HREF="http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=12" target="_new"> Soyo Brochure </A>

I've built several machines and although I've had my share of damnable incompatibility problems, this is the first time I've had the smoke get out.

t




Too clever by half...

 

[Crashman]

Read <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=520151#520151" target="_new">This Thread</A>.

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