I'm still not shure if my cpu is fried i forgot to put the heatsink on the cpu... i was testing a mobo and the system shut off in 3 seconds.. i dont knoe if the cpu is fried or not i was wondering if people had an opinion or past exsperiences thanks :)

Probably, if your [no offense] Stupid enough to apply the CPU and turn on teh system without a heatsink/fan cooler or thermal paste. You just f'd urself. Put on the heatsink and stuff and try again. If it doesn't boot you can toss it in the trash sorry bud.

yeah it was 4 o clock in the morning and yes it was stoopid.. thanks for the complimant... i didnt pay for the cpu i got it for free and i kinda just was testing a mobo to see if it was bad and the mobo was bad and yeah if i fried the cpu oh well no biggy ill get another AMD is cheap :)

Put on heatsink and try again ya? Because some motherboard like Asus ;D has the built in circuit protection for CPU overheat. It will shut down your computer before the CPU burns, it sounds like 3 seconds is not enought to burn it. AMD will take 7 seconds to burn or reach over 90 degrees =D. 3 seconds it may be at about 30-50 degrees.

ok cus this is a soyo k7ada does it have that built in?

i looked on the soyo and it has "cpu tempature monitoring through flexiable sensor"
does that mean my cpu's ok?!?!?!?! that it shuts down before it fries ?!?!

>>>i looked on the soyo and it has "cpu tempature monitoring through flexiable sensor"
does that mean my cpu's ok?!?!?!?! that it shuts down before it fries ?!?!

Well it depends if it was enabled in BIOS as default. Unfortunately my motherbard [Gigabyte GA-7VA] has the same option but it was default-disabled.

just put a heatsink on, rememeber to put on some thermal compund or thermal pad, then re-test, if it works, it works, if it doesn't, it's gone

thanks guys ill have to see what happens but see my problem is i ordered my mobo already and its refurbed from newegg i have 15 days to see if the mobo was refurbed correctly is not i need ot return it for another BUT HOW DO I KNOE THE MOBO IS GOOD IF I DONT HAVE A CPU?!??!?!?!?!

so as u can see im in a perdicement ill just have to see what happens thanks guys !!!

you can still start up the mobo without a cpu, post will just report no CPU, if it does, obviously the mobo is still working

Have you tried a different power supply? I know this sounds way off but those things are wierd. i had a similar problem. I was letting my brother help me build his system and he put the ram in backwards somehow. No idea how he got it in backwards but the burn marks on the stick matched the burnt area on the bank and it WAS backwards. Anyway, after buying new ram and a new board, It still wouldn't post. But the PS would come on (fan) and the HD would spin. No picture, blank screen. acted just like it didnt have any ram installed. After a little searching on the net I decided to change power supplies. Booted right up and never had any problems since. Weird. Like something that controls memory was burnt in the PS.