I find it very unlikely that you've fried it. It's possible however that you've fried some other component. I'd recommend taking the system apart, flashing the CMOS several times, insuring that no spacers are shorting anything out, and put the thing back together. While you're at it, make sure the processor isn't fried (I have no idea how you'd go about doing that though . Other common problems are getting thermal paste on the bridges (in other words, make sure everything is clean and spiffy). Do you get any beap codes? I've had some interesting stuff happen with nvidia based graphics cards and kt133 chipsets.