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HELP Burning Smell

jhalf said:
I didn't know if that cpu was toast because it worked for like 20 min with the asus board, although I guess it still could be messed up. I was so frustrated with everything that I wasn't being as careful as I usually am when I put the new board in and after all of the troubles I noticed that two of the pins were bent on the Asus mobo. I sent the asus board, the psu, and the cpu back today. Asus will charge 40 bucks for the bent pins but I just want my pc back.

Whats a little weird was after I noticed the bent pins, they looked like they were still making proper contact with the cpu co I put it back in and the system still worked for that 20 min then died,

all in all
345 for cpu and heatsink
220 for p5q delux
45 to ship everything
free (bitching) - 40 for socket repair
= very expensive cpu upgrade!!

Hope everyone else has better luck with their upgrades.
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Only if the bent pins are what caused the board to die.

I had bent pins on a P5E-VM HDMI. I then spent way too much time getting them bent back, gave up, RMA'd to ASUS, turns out old BIOS was causing problems with my chip. They flashed it, and sent me the exact same board, with the same bent pins, and it worked 100% fine. I prettymuch avoided the $40 fee by bending the pins back - only thing really lost was gold plating on one pin.
 
I'm using the HDT-s1283 which is almost identical to the Dark Knight Xigmatek cooler you're using minus the nickel plating. Not sure if it had anything to do with your troubles but I didn't like the way the metal of the retention bracket on the CPU side of the board made contact with the board itself, so I placed little rubber o-rings under them as I screwed them down as when I first installed it, they seemed to dig into the board.

I am using it on an i7 however so I'm not sure if you had the same issue on a 775.
 
do you mean you placed rubber o rings between the screws themselves and the motherboard?
 
jhalf said:
do you mean you placed rubber o rings between the screws themselves and the motherboard?
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One should always do that regardless if it would make contact with any electrical part or not...just for precaution reason (for me at least).
 
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