is processor sickness contagious?

Discussion in 'CPU, Motherboards and Memory' started by aeion, Jan 14, 2004.

  1. aeion

    aeion Geek Trainee

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    If I have Processor A in Motherboard A for about a year, and at some point heat or maybe something else causes processor A to become more and more damaged, and in turn begins to damage Motherboard A and stops working at some point.

    Supposing that this is what happened
    if i take processor B from MotherBoard B (Both in good working order) and put it in Motherboard A
    Will processor B become damaged?

    and also if i take processor A and put it in Motherboard b, will motherboard B become damaged?

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    i've got two motherboards that i thought were dead
    then i went and bought another one and it has trouble booting with processor A or B after i've tried them in all 3 motherboards

    wtf
     
  2. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    No. Swapping CPU's into different boards won't spread any kind of disease. If the CPU wasn't set in the socket correctly, then yes, but you'd have a few bent pins at the least, and more likely a nuked motherboard.
     
  3. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    Then again, if the pins are bent, you wouldn't even be able to spread the disease on the other board since the cpu just won't fit in !

    On a side note, I don't understand how is it that someone can even bend cpu pins.... (not saying that that's what you did btw)
     

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