ASUS P5Q - E does not POST - HELPP!!!!!

kiran1103

kiran1103

kiran1103

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Poor me thought of lapping the TRUE and in that bargain some thermal paste settled in the pins of motherboard (accidently). I tried cleaning with cotton (how dumb) and now I notice some pins damaged.

I re assembled everything and when i switched it on, no POST, no display. all fans running. The MB light is on. I cleared CMOS, left battery out overnight and no luck. I cleaned the pins and tried aligning it, no luck.

When I switch it on the fan run for 3 seconds, swiches off for a second and then runs again. No clue why is this.

Is something wrong with TRUE lapping? Should I try stock HS of Intel? or go for RMA?

Please HELP...
 
Do you have a decent digital camera? Post up a pic of the socket clearly showing the condition of the pins
 
well then that's your reason. take a sewing pin or something and carefully try to adjust them back to position
 
Difficult to tell form the pic but it looks like 1 of the pins near the 2 problem pins is bent and may also be shorting. When you say the tips are cut off, did you break the tips off whilst cleaning?

You could still trying bending whats left of the pin up in the hope that it makes contact, also this type of damage won't be covered by an RMA so you'll probably need to go and get a new board.
 
Sadly, that board is borked and there's no way they'll do an RMA on that.

Can't be too careful with LGA arrays, I kinda preferred the old processor pins as at least if you accidentally knocked one you could use a ruler or something the carefully bend it back into line.

On the other hand, at least you've borked a £100 mobo, rather than potenially a much more expensive CPU.

Live and learn :)
 
Yeahh lets hope for the best. Sent it back saying it was faulty. I am sure they would not take time to test seeing the condition of the pins. Bad luck.
 
NO luck, Ordered a new p5Q -E. Any idea if the MB can be repaired so that I can keep it as spare? Are there any reasonable shops in London who can repair them?
 
thats warranty void mate - the supplier would reject that

mobo could be repaired if someone knew exactly what they are doing - take it as a lesson learned - if the chip is out of the socket - put a socket protector on immediatly
 
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