fried CPU?

[sam]

This is my 1st attempt at building a system, and i had inadvertently
managed to fry my motherboard and RAM. I had screwed the motherboard
directly into the case, at the time the CPU and RAM were connected ( I now
know I should have placed the mb onto the mounting screws provided) There
was a burning smell, front LEDs lit up like a christmas tree, and then a
'pop' from the power supply and a puff of smoke.


Luckily for me, the retailer RMA'ed the Motherboard and RAM and I bought a
new power supply The CPU i had used was a new Athlon XP1800+ retail with
heatsink/fan. My question is whether there is a way of knowing if the CPU
is fried as well, would it damage my new mb if I tried the CPU with it? If
in all likelyhood the CPU had died, can I at least salvage the heatsink/fan
and use that ?

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[Kenneth A Kauffman]

sam wrote: This is my 1st attempt at building a system, and i had inadvertently managed to fry my motherboard and RAM. I had screwed the motherboard directly into the case, at the time the CPU and RAM were connected ( I now know I should have placed the mb onto the mounting screws provided) There was a burning smell, front LEDs lit up like a christmas tree, and then a 'pop' from the power supply and a puff of smoke. Luckily for me, the retailer RMA'ed the Motherboard and RAM and I bought a new power supply The CPU i had used was a new Athlon XP1800+ retail with heatsink/fan. My question is whether there is a way of knowing if the CPU is fried as well, would it damage my new mb if I tried the CPU with it? If in all likelyhood the CPU had died, can I at least salvage the heatsink/fan and use that ? -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

Low chance if you use the dead CPU that you would cause a problem with the
new board. CPU and Fan should still be usable if the CPU was killed.

ken k