Half way through a build, need help.

MrH · 30 Jan 2010 at 03:30

So everything is installed and working, the only problem is I can't get that bloody bit of metal on the back of the case to fit, the cover that goes over the mouse, keyboard, sound card plugs, on the motherboard there's a flap of metal near the keyboard socket that's blocking it from going flush, the mobo is seated correctly and all screws are in perfectly. Anyone knows why this is happening? I've never had a problem with this before.

Board is Asus P7P555D, case is coolermaster stack 830.

MrH · 30 Jan 2010 at 03:32

It's called a Q-Shield according to the manual.

Stupot_ · 30 Jan 2010 at 03:40

Maybe its because its 3.30am

try again in the morning

Can you take a photo of the offending flap of metal? (flange?

) I really had to jam the plate in when I did mine, wasn't easy.

setter · 30 Jan 2010 at 03:43

Is it a cushioned/padded io shield, (quite common on asus boards now). Sometimes you do have to force them in, on an evga board i had, the fit was that bad i had to file the io plate to fit.

MrH · 30 Jan 2010 at 04:57

I fixed it by taking off the foam, pointless stuff. Now I've got the problem the door doesn't close on my coolermaster 830 stacker with the Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme Rev. Can nothing go right today?

MrH · 30 Jan 2010 at 06:02

Also, my bios is showing CPU temp at like 55 while Speedfan shows it at 30, it's a fresh build and I've not even oc yet, which temp is correct?

MrH · 30 Jan 2010 at 07:26

Got the temp down to 35 in bios, 20 in speedfan, I still want to know why they're different. All in all that was the most problematic build I've ever done and I'm so tired I might never wake up. And it's confirmed, the Stacker door won't close with that cooler, what a shame.

ConceptBoz · 30 Jan 2010 at 10:47

Those metal flaps have ALWAYS caused me a pain after my first build went with no problems with them. Part of me always feels like not bothering with them.

Hope when you wake up you manage to fix it - sleep sometimes helps!

MrH · 30 Jan 2010 at 17:55

It's a new day and I'm past the building at 4am buzz, PC is now setup correctly, CPU is overclocked to 4GHz, slowly overclocking my 5850 now. Modern Warfare 2 just looks amazing with everything maxxed both in game and in the ATI control panel. Bios temp is still around 10c higher then Speedfan though.

But yeah, word of warning the stacker door will 100% not close with the Tuniq Tower and that Q-shield thing is a serious pain in the ass, why did they have to go fiddling, I ended up just ripping off the padding and with some brute force got it to line up correctly.

Overall extremely happy with the i5 750 + P7P55D combo, overclocking is a dream.