Is my motherboard destroying CPUs or what?

[RunningDuck]

Hey hey! First post, so be gentile.

I'm having a problem and I have no idea what is causing it. Here's the story: the CPU fan mount on my fiancee's computer broke off. Couldn't glue it into place, so I went head and ordered a new motherboard. I didn't want to spend a whole lot, so I bought a cheap Shuttle. It got here, I swapped out the old, broken motherboard for the new one, taking all the usual static precautions.

Problem is, that I fired it up, and it didn't really do anything. At all. The DVD drive wouldn't open, the optical mouse didn't light up, the keyboard lights wouldn't light. So, I figured maybe the CPU had been unprotected for too long when the old fan broke off, and overheated and toasted itself. So, to test this theory, I swapped it out with an old CPU I had laying around. And it booted right up for a bit, I was halfway through with the BIOS settings, when the screen went black and, again, none of the perhipials work. And now, that CPU doesn't work either.

So, question is, am I doing something stupid and not realizing it, or is this motherboard eating processors? Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks!
-Dan

[sirchumpalot]

when my friend Earl installed his athlon xp 3200+ he scraped off the thermal tape and installed the processor, when he turned it on, it lasted about 5 minutes and the processor got fried.

then he got the same processor again and forgot to plug in the cpu fan, it friend the processor.

what im trying to say is, when removing and reinstalling a cpu, you always have to install thermal cooling agent(tape, grease). When swapping cpus, NEVER, and i mean NEVER, reinstall a cpu without reinstalling the thermal tape or thermal grease.

If you didnt follow one of these precautions, then i think that is the reason the cpu crashed.