Yeh for the most part there is VERY little chance you damaged your chip in teh first min if it was a jumperless MB. Most all motherboards have a locked voltage to what ever the CPU needs. And also most soft set MB's are smart enuf to not damage a chip if it tries to run it at to high of a speed.
I think you are safe to say you didnt damage the chip in teh first boot by not having a heatsink on it. it should of atleast got to loading the OS before it had any trouble.
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C-ya
Joe
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