I ebayed a mother board complete with RAM and CPU. The buyer has raised a case saying that the package arrived squashed and the heat sink was 'loose'. He's saying that after he reseated the CPU, installed a new PSU and graphics card and switched on, nothing happened and there was no signal to the monitor. He says that he's had a 'Dell engineer' have a look and test the PSU and graphics card and the engineer says the m/b is blown.
It all seems a little unlikely: I can't see how a motherboard can be 'blown' in these circumstances. Anyone care to enlighten me?