I have a new PC and I have found out that my motherboard was a dud right out of the box. I need to send it back to ASUS to get a new one and I need to remove my corsair 100i v2 AIO watercooling unit from my CPU. I am new at this building process and I don't know if the thermal paste hardens onto it or not. I am worried about damaging my brand new core i7 6700k CPU in the process of removing the water cooler. Please help with descrIcing how to properly remove the cooling unit
Removing AIO cooler
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No it'll just come off easily, the thermal paste stays unset. When in a few years it does start to harden it'll need to be replaced.
How do you know your old board is DOA? If its because of bent pins you are unlikely to get a replacement as they'd consider it user damage and reject the RMA.
How do you know your old board is DOA? If its because of bent pins you are unlikely to get a replacement as they'd consider it user damage and reject the RMA.
Onboard LEDs won't work and I am getting no POST beeps or any image on a monitor. I have done all the tests with the ram and I figured that is not the problem because even without the RAM I should be getting some kind of sound from my speaker.
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Yeah if you aren't getting any power then I guess it is a bad board. How do you know it isnt your PSU?
And yes you'll have to remove thermal paste with arcticlean or some other cleaning solution and reapply paste every time you remove the cooler.
And yes you'll have to remove thermal paste with arcticlean or some other cleaning solution and reapply paste every time you remove the cooler.
It's weird because parts of the MOBO are getting power and other parts are not. I know it isn't the PSU because I plugged in a different PSU that a friend had that I knew worked and put out enough watts to power my system. It's all very odd. This is my first build so I'm still new at a lot of this but I know that I have hooked up everything correctly and the only thing I can think about being wrong is that the MOBO is bad.
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