I/O shield doesn't line up, what do I do?

AiiR said:
Might be that you've installed the cpu cooler a bit weirdly perhaps.
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I was extremly careful. The CPU cooler installation was the thing I found most daunting so I obsessed about it, read numerous articles, posted a thread on the forums... I didn't everything I could think of before installing. When I finally did install, everything went fine.
 
Doctor McNinja said:
I was extremly careful. The CPU cooler installation was the thing I found most daunting so I obsessed about it, read numerous articles, posted a thread on the forums... I didn't everything I could think of before installing. When I finally did install, everything went fine.
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Did you take the motherboard fully out of the case to see if it was warped? It's possible you could fix it by fastening it down to the case to bend it back into shape, but that sounds like risky business, so would look for some more experienced views than mine.

Good luck anyways.
 
AiiR said:
Did you take the motherboard fully out of the case to see if it was warped? It's possible you could fix it by fastening it down to the case to bend it back into shape, but that sounds like risky business, so would look for some more experienced views than mine.

Good luck anyways.
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I did take the mobo fully out. I had to, to place spacers underneath the standoffs. As for bending it into position, if it was one milimeter, maybe but it's three. I remember when me and my brother fixed his first Xbox 360. The mobo being 1mm out was enough to cause it to red light.
 
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I always have trouble with the 20 pin connections. Just pull the clip back and really pull it. I found it easier by pulling one side up and out then the other rather than pulling it from the middle, if that makes sense.
 
AiiR said:
I always have trouble with the 20 pin connections. Just pull the clip back and really pull it. I found it easier by pulling one side up and out then the other rather than pulling it from the middle, if that makes sense.
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I don't want to use too much force. If I damage the mobo removing the 20 pin then I've got no grounds for an RMA claim.


[EDIT] YEAH!!! pulling it from one side worked like a charm, thanks!
 
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I've had similar issues with Antec cases recently, but my issues seemed to be across all of the back connectors, the expansion plates were high at the fitting point, and the same alignment miss-match can be seen in the I/O plate area.... i put it down to dodgy Antec quality control.
 
It's stuff like this which irritates me most about building PCs, the actual 'construction' side of things where I always seem to run into issues.
I've had similar things before where I've been convinced something won't fit, then all of a sudden it just does.

I notice you talking about the graphics card, you definitely want to make sure the gfx card (or any other expansion cards for that matter) isn't plugged in while trying to line up the mobo with the I/O plate if you're having problems. Reason being that effectively they will act like a clamp restricting the movement of the motherboard. It will likely be far easier to shoehorn the gfx card in afterwards because you are only dealing with 1 hole, rather than a couple of dozen.
 
for mine it was a full PCI bus and all expansion slots were used, and only one of them came close to fitting when the cards were fully pushed home, i had gaps under the mounting area, meaning if i tightened them down the motherboard would have been owed, so i used washers and plates of varying thickness's to make up the difference, so no undo pressure was applied to the motherboard, and that was after the motheboard was mounted as you say
 
Here's a picture that clearly shows what's wrong with the mobo.

For those of you who are wondering, I've tried loosening the clamps on the CPU cooler (which I might add is correctly installed) but it made no difference to the deformation.

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600mm out at 1:200 :), is it that corner only or is there a general bow along the motherboard?

seems not fit for purpose, have you enquired about RMA?

andy
 
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