Motherboard Failure?

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Southy

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Hi all,
I have a computer that was running fine one day and then all of a sudden it just shut off and it smelled like something was fried.... at first I thought it was the power supply, so I swapped it with another one, I even took the heatsink off and checked the processor chip and didnt find nothing out of the ordinary... none the less, even with a new power supply, when you hit the power button on the front of the desktop computer, it still did nothing.... so I assume that it was the mother board that went on it or would I be assuming wrong? Its a few years old now and has a Pentium III 800mhz chip in it, I was wondering, if it is the board that is fried, could I buy a different pentium motherboard and put the chip in it and continue to use the computer as if nothing happened?
 
hard to say really i don't know if a motherboard would smell fried (im almost sure intels are designed not to fry) correct me if im wrong....but if it is the motherboard then yes of course you could get another one of the same socket to use with that chip and it would be ok...thats considering something in your pc didn't cause it to fry like a power supply
 
well I got a couple of spare power supplies lying around anyways, so I was probably going to throw a different one in it once I get it going again.

How can I find out which socket type motherboard to buy? Does it say on the chip somewhere or on the old motherboard itself?
 
pentium III would have been socket 370..it should say on the processor what socket it takes just to make sure and i would definitely try another power supply before shelling out on a new motherboard i can't even begin to tell you where to find these
 
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