physically fucked up the motherboard, either you or the company that rmad

No, unfortunately, those aren't the capacitors ppl refer to when they say: "The capacitors overheated". These caps are the one "around" the CPU socket. They are large, like wooden pencil erasers.

That is physical damage, in your pic.




This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 31 2016 09:32pm

nobody checks
and c if mobo
comes like that
my face

no its an 1150, i thought he had a 6600 but i guess not, he said it was a z97

so its safe to assume this socket damage isnt what caused his computer to stop working in the first place then?

No, it isn't. That kind of socket damage would definitely cause problems.

right, but in order to damage it he'd have to remove the processor, which he didnt do until it stopped working, unless it was already damaged and by some miracle worked for a few months?

Well, yeah, but since this is all 3rd party info....who really knows.


/e Over the years when they came out with new sockets or made CPUs that would work in old sockets....occasionally, there have been unused pins.

More likely...

He took CPU out, saw some TC in socket tried to clean it...slipped and bent or whacked the socket. Even if he did do this, they should have stilled RMAd it. Benefit of the doubt, so to speak.

This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 31 2016 09:46pm

yeah i see your point so i guess he'll get the mobo replaced and hopefully that solves everything

i'm hanging my head real low after reading this shit

If he's lucky.


/e If it was a manufacturer defect, it either wouldn't have worked from day 1, or it wouldn't have worked for months and then failed.

This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 31 2016 09:49pm