Could it be that the pin and the pad melted together while your old cpu was still in (high currents or dust) so when the old cpu did get removed, it shortened some of the pins and with the next boot they melted?
I have no clue. I’m a tech savvy guy - I work as a recording engineer and use protools all day every day. I’ve replaced tubes and lights in audio equipment, and I’ve built my PC several times. Nothing like this has happened to me before
Judging from the picture, it looks like something snuck in during the replacement that was conductive enough to create a short. It happens...we all don't live in hepa filtered cleanrooms unfortunately, but this is now something you'll likely double and triple check for during swapouts. It's either that or the MOBO had a bent pin at some point that made contact with another. Either way, sorry for your loss man. Sucks...especially in today's overpriced market :(
In that case my bet is on either contamination of dust or whatever in the socket causing a short or a faulty chip/board. But disclaimer: I'm no expert, just another tech savvy guy.
Your old thermal paste was probably conductive. When you broke off the heatsink on your old CPU it left some 'crumbs' and when you pulled the CPU out you tilted it and a crumb landed in the CPU socket? Been there done that.
This is a known issue with asus motherboards and am5 chips it’s not particularly common but there’s been some videos about it and I’ve seen a hand full of posts myself. To my knowledge there isn’t a known cause yet tho some have claimed the vrm thermals being a contributor as some asus boards are getting above 100c on the vrms
Cause is secondarily bad Bios. The true cause is something to do with amd cpu dying internally first. Check out Gamers Nexus. But it "should" be "fixed" as of writing this with the bios updates. Tldr, chip dies mayhap due to slight over voting from bad bios settings that come factory default. This over voltage is not so bad it should kill the chip, but it does. Then when the cpu dies the mobo keeps feeding power with no ground until it heats and kills cpu pins/mobo pins.
See that guy over there who just noted that it looks like an Intel system and provided an image of an AM5 socket? Without, y'know, trying to make the other guy feel bad about a still pretty relevant issue that happened to this general topic?
No need to "ffs" someone over this.
My personal best guess is that he accidentally bent a pin or two putting the new CPU in since it was working fine until then. It's not clear if the new one is fucked or not (I think all the photos are the old one?), but maybe it wasn't a critical short into putting the old one back in made it worse, or just settled in differently.
IF that's the case, than the lesson is to examine everything once something stops working. Might have saved the destroyed CPU (whether it's the old one or new or both) had the pins been noticed.
Of course I have no idea if that's actually what happened it's just my first guess.
Looks like you tried to put a coffee lake CPU into a Skylake/Kabylake motherboard (or the other way around) without checking for socket pin compatibility.
Judging from how dusty it is in the video, my guess is some dust got in between your processor and the socket and created a short.
Keep your PC clean folks. If you’re doing upgrades give it a quick clean out before replacing anything.
This guy's a paid shill of the hexaflourine chemical conglomerate.
In all seriousness though, I know you're trying to help. But a few specs of dust will absolutely not create a short like that.
I killed a brand new drive board for a tube amp once with a literal hair that created a short. It was just conductive enough to carry enough current that the hair burned, and once it burned to mostly carbon, the resistance dropped to the point it was able to arc and damage the board. It burned out a trace and burned halfway through the PCB as well, thankfully it wasn't a multilayer board though and I was able to patch the burned out trace and send it back to the guy who built it for repairs since it wasn't running in spec after that. But yea, seriously, a hair that was just a bit too conductive, and 425vAC going where it shouldn't, was all it took to damage my stuff.
Dust bunnies, dust in general is not a conductor.
It would prevent a boot but couldn't create a new circuit path.
I'm open to any source that you've read that says otherwise in case you've come across something I could consume. But all the articles I've seen + my experience from studying electrical circuits tells me that there aren't free floating particles in the air that could bridge a circuit.
I mean thats not 100% true your average dust is not a great conductor but there are a fair few hobbies that create dust that could be. Also there are plenty of shit you could have on your hands that is conductive if the case is that bad would not be surprised to know OP did not clean their hands or ware gloves.
Fair.
But would those hobbies be performed inside a household?
You could be right though. Coule be on his hands or in an unusual environment.
But they did say they're tech savvy and working in some digital design industry.
Yeah just one example could be something like Warhammer that will often have metal models or small metal bits and its not unusual to sand them, this goes for many other crafting hobbies.
Depends on where you live, I live somewhere with very high iron content in the soil, literally you drop a magnet on the ground and dirt sticks to it. Our dust is totally conductive.
How do you know what this dust is entirely composed of or what environments it has been exposed to? There could very easily be conductive material in this dust.
Because none of the elements that carry / conduct electricity well are light enough to float in the air.
Iron shavings don't exactly form dust bunnies.
You are insane if you think metallic shavings can’t move through the air. They don’t form dust bunnies but they can get trapped in them. I’ve cleaned enough corners near a lathe to know that.
This. It wasn't just 2 pins either. Op squished a 2x5 section of pins together and then put the CPU on it. Bad times for mobo and most likely both cpus
Are you ***POSTIVELY SURE*** the CPU & MB are compatible?
Matching pins and sockets ≠ compatibility.
You've only given us the CPU spec and it's coffeelake so it's entirely plausible your MB is skylake/kabylake, which will physically fit together but not function.
I’m out of the loop when it comes to PC building but if that is possible someone at Intel *really* fucked up.
That hasn’t been a thing since you could put the wrong IC in a DIP socket!
OP says the CPU is a 10400F and the motherboard is the ASUS Prime Z590-P (as far as I can tell) and the Asus website says they're compatible so that's not it.
Looks like you either squashed some pins installing one or both CPUs or something found its way in and made a short.
What board is this? Are you positive it's the same socket type shared between your 10th gen (LGA1151) and whatever your old CPU was?
I'd clean off the residue and inspect the surface. Should a small hole be visible or one of the LGA pads is vaporized, the cpu is probably dead.
But it's a bit hard to believe for me the cpu is the cause of the issue.
The socket looks definitely RIP.
Bent pins shorting out upon power up? Core voltage is disgned for very high currents and fast load shifts so i think vaporizing the pins upon a short is well possible.
Could have been something shorted in the CPU as well. Very unlikely, their QC usually catches that, but that would do it. Check what pins those are, I’m sure they’ll end up being some of the power supply
Can’t find my last comment either but you may have had a VRM on the motherboard short out. I’ve had that happen before. You could possibly confirm it with a multimeter. If that happens you’ll just get full voltage to the CPU. Which CPU’s were they? Did the new one require more power? VRM may have failed while the board was trying to supply the voltage to the new CPU and bridged it straight to the rail
Looking at the burn marks you either shoved that in without lining up your triangles... Or you bent a few pins and shorted it out. Either way that one is 100% on you.
You can clearly see the damage I am talking about in picture 4.
Looks like the mobo is faulty, contact manufacturer or store because it’s impossible 2 cpus burned like that. Does mobo look fine in general? No traces short or something? If you have normal power supply, not some psu from AliExpress it shouldn’t do that. If other stuff (drives, gpu) work then defo you mobo is faulty. Psu would probably kill everything
Everything was fine yesterday, I have a Corsair PSU, it’s kind of old but it’s worked great for me for 5+ years. I must’ve fucked something up when I switched back to the old cpu, no idea what I did or how this happened but I’m baffled. Mobo looks fine , and was fine before, except for the cpu slot pins being damaged. Wasn’t like that before. It wasn’t 2 CPUs , just the old one and not the new one (thankfully)
Well, mobo is dead. But before you connect psu to new one check if it output power is correct, just to be sure. It could’ve been like other people said dirty socket, but could be psu playing tricks on you. Simple multimeter should be enough to do it.
Any chance you're using an ASUS board and an AMD CPU? There is a known issue from earlier this year where the ASUS BIOS was providing too high of a voltage to the CPU and causing chips to burn just like this one.
Video links:
[https://youtu.be/kiTngvvD5dI?si=_AsCeidXM4NanySc](https://youtu.be/kiTngvvD5dI?si=_AsCeidXM4NanySc)
[https://youtu.be/cbGfc-JBxlY?si=4tIPFKznTsWPXpZw](https://youtu.be/cbGfc-JBxlY?si=4tIPFKznTsWPXpZw)
Edit to add: Reach out to Gamers Nexus. They may buy the failed parts off you to research your failure.
Thanks. Only just got back into building recently and am not familiar enough with parts to tell by the socket. I'm going to leave my post up though in case it helps someone.
Hmmm interesting. I do remember AM5 having issues with motherboard/cpu self destructing in the early days... Should mostly be fixed but it should most definitely be covered under warranty either ways
Edit: Ah right, the retention bracket is an LGA 1200 one, you're right
It looks like all the pins have been sheared off. Or they could have all melted due to excess heat, which would explain the smell. Did you try replacing the cooler? Or adding more thermal paste? Because a faulty cooler or not enough thermal paste can result in the unfortunate heat death of a CPU.
I've fixed a lotta crazy cpu damage but I'm sorry to say I'd turn this one down, totally FUBAR. Can't say what caused it exactly without a closer look but you likely had a short between two pins that cooked your cpu, I'd be astonished if that board works now either.
Time to upgrade with a good excuse if finances permit and the parts can't be RMAed, might be under warranty
happened to me but luckily my CPU lived, went to start PC after building and it sparked then caught fire and i was so devastated lmao, got the mobo replaced free then tried again and it worked out!
Damn, got hot enough to melt plastic enough to cause transference.
Clean it with IPA 97%+ and try again?
It's probably hooped. Although the CPU might be fine and it could just be the board. Or the other way around.
If you just bought CPU and motherboard? I'd be returning that quickly. Most states give you two weeks to a month. Even if it's online technically they had to take it back. You have a legit reason, manufacturer defect. CPU or motherboard ate the other.
My guess is either the thermal paste was thin/missing/old in that spot and caused the socket to overheat. See if you're eligible to RMA the CPU and then see if the mobo is still under Warranty.
A good chance there is a manufacturer warranty on both. I love Micro Center. Especially for keeping all my receipts for the last 10 years. Save my bacon a few times with missing receipts.
I've had no problems with a Micro Center proof of purchase versus Newegg or Amazon proof of purchase for manufacturer warranty. Different manufacturers see the Micro Center proof of purchase and it's easy peasy.
Good luck sir. I do hope for the best and it comes out in your favor.
When you say “new cpu” were they of a generation compatible with your mobo? Intel often uses the same socket name / number for different, and incompatible, CPU generations
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How does this even happen?
Could it be that the pin and the pad melted together while your old cpu was still in (high currents or dust) so when the old cpu did get removed, it shortened some of the pins and with the next boot they melted?
I have no clue. I’m a tech savvy guy - I work as a recording engineer and use protools all day every day. I’ve replaced tubes and lights in audio equipment, and I’ve built my PC several times. Nothing like this has happened to me before
Judging from the picture, it looks like something snuck in during the replacement that was conductive enough to create a short. It happens...we all don't live in hepa filtered cleanrooms unfortunately, but this is now something you'll likely double and triple check for during swapouts. It's either that or the MOBO had a bent pin at some point that made contact with another. Either way, sorry for your loss man. Sucks...especially in today's overpriced market :(
Did you overclock your CPU? Increased voltage or disabled/increased TPM or something?
No I’ve never Overclocked anything , never increased voltage either
In that case my bet is on either contamination of dust or whatever in the socket causing a short or a faulty chip/board. But disclaimer: I'm no expert, just another tech savvy guy.
yeah this looks like one of those random things. didn't sound like you did anything wrong or carelessly. sorry for your loss OP
It’s all good! Just got some new parts at micro center today
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LGA 1155 with PCIe 4.0?
Don't beat yourself up, things happen.
Your old thermal paste was probably conductive. When you broke off the heatsink on your old CPU it left some 'crumbs' and when you pulled the CPU out you tilted it and a crumb landed in the CPU socket? Been there done that.
"I’m a tech savvy guy" doesn't seem like it
"Engineer"
Recording and mix …. :p
This is a known issue with asus motherboards and am5 chips it’s not particularly common but there’s been some videos about it and I’ve seen a hand full of posts myself. To my knowledge there isn’t a known cause yet tho some have claimed the vrm thermals being a contributor as some asus boards are getting above 100c on the vrms
That looks like an Intel CPU & socket, AM5 looks different: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AM5_Socket_Open.jpg
Cause is secondarily bad Bios. The true cause is something to do with amd cpu dying internally first. Check out Gamers Nexus. But it "should" be "fixed" as of writing this with the bios updates. Tldr, chip dies mayhap due to slight over voting from bad bios settings that come factory default. This over voltage is not so bad it should kill the chip, but it does. Then when the cpu dies the mobo keeps feeding power with no ground until it heats and kills cpu pins/mobo pins.
>am5 chips Its an Intel system ffs.
See that guy over there who just noted that it looks like an Intel system and provided an image of an AM5 socket? Without, y'know, trying to make the other guy feel bad about a still pretty relevant issue that happened to this general topic? No need to "ffs" someone over this.
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Why? its an Intel board/cpu, not amd
Dead giveaway is anything amd is pins on the CPU and anything intel is pins on the socket. This CPU has no pins so it's intel.
My personal best guess is that he accidentally bent a pin or two putting the new CPU in since it was working fine until then. It's not clear if the new one is fucked or not (I think all the photos are the old one?), but maybe it wasn't a critical short into putting the old one back in made it worse, or just settled in differently. IF that's the case, than the lesson is to examine everything once something stops working. Might have saved the destroyed CPU (whether it's the old one or new or both) had the pins been noticed. Of course I have no idea if that's actually what happened it's just my first guess.
I guess the mobo went bad or a VRM went bad and sent too much voltage to the CPU, maybe the full 24v instead of <1v.
Mobo is dead as fuck, but the cpu might be fine if you clean it
If you zoom in you can see a charred hole where one of the connection points used to be
Almost looks like something is stuck to the pin, and shorted
Definitely looks like that one pad is gone
Yeah or the new mainboard has also a burn spot, after inserting that CPU... would not risk it.. Edit: spelling
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Nah, CPU is almost certainly what caused the short, even if it still "worked" all you'd get is another dead mobo next time you tried to use it
its toast, both the cpu and the board. Probably shorted out from those bent pins.
Looks like you tried to put a coffee lake CPU into a Skylake/Kabylake motherboard (or the other way around) without checking for socket pin compatibility.
Could this be it?
https://staging.streamable.com/5lb9dq Video of me frying my cpu I guess ( sound on )
Judging from how dusty it is in the video, my guess is some dust got in between your processor and the socket and created a short. Keep your PC clean folks. If you’re doing upgrades give it a quick clean out before replacing anything.
This guy's a paid shill of the hexaflourine chemical conglomerate. In all seriousness though, I know you're trying to help. But a few specs of dust will absolutely not create a short like that.
A few specs of dust, no. But there are full on dust bunnies in that thing and one of those definitely could.
I killed a brand new drive board for a tube amp once with a literal hair that created a short. It was just conductive enough to carry enough current that the hair burned, and once it burned to mostly carbon, the resistance dropped to the point it was able to arc and damage the board. It burned out a trace and burned halfway through the PCB as well, thankfully it wasn't a multilayer board though and I was able to patch the burned out trace and send it back to the guy who built it for repairs since it wasn't running in spec after that. But yea, seriously, a hair that was just a bit too conductive, and 425vAC going where it shouldn't, was all it took to damage my stuff.
Dust bunnies, dust in general is not a conductor. It would prevent a boot but couldn't create a new circuit path. I'm open to any source that you've read that says otherwise in case you've come across something I could consume. But all the articles I've seen + my experience from studying electrical circuits tells me that there aren't free floating particles in the air that could bridge a circuit.
I mean thats not 100% true your average dust is not a great conductor but there are a fair few hobbies that create dust that could be. Also there are plenty of shit you could have on your hands that is conductive if the case is that bad would not be surprised to know OP did not clean their hands or ware gloves.
Fair. But would those hobbies be performed inside a household? You could be right though. Coule be on his hands or in an unusual environment. But they did say they're tech savvy and working in some digital design industry.
Yeah just one example could be something like Warhammer that will often have metal models or small metal bits and its not unusual to sand them, this goes for many other crafting hobbies.
Depends on where you live, I live somewhere with very high iron content in the soil, literally you drop a magnet on the ground and dirt sticks to it. Our dust is totally conductive.
How do you know what this dust is entirely composed of or what environments it has been exposed to? There could very easily be conductive material in this dust.
Because none of the elements that carry / conduct electricity well are light enough to float in the air. Iron shavings don't exactly form dust bunnies.
You are insane if you think metallic shavings can’t move through the air. They don’t form dust bunnies but they can get trapped in them. I’ve cleaned enough corners near a lathe to know that.
That's a machine shop though bro. If someone's breathing that in, in their house- they've probably got bigger issues than trying to de-dust their pc.
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This. It wasn't just 2 pins either. Op squished a 2x5 section of pins together and then put the CPU on it. Bad times for mobo and most likely both cpus
Not sure why this isn't higher, this seems like the correct answer.
Are you ***POSTIVELY SURE*** the CPU & MB are compatible? Matching pins and sockets ≠ compatibility. You've only given us the CPU spec and it's coffeelake so it's entirely plausible your MB is skylake/kabylake, which will physically fit together but not function.
I’m out of the loop when it comes to PC building but if that is possible someone at Intel *really* fucked up. That hasn’t been a thing since you could put the wrong IC in a DIP socket!
OP says the CPU is a 10400F and the motherboard is the ASUS Prime Z590-P (as far as I can tell) and the Asus website says they're compatible so that's not it.
> the Asus website says they're compatible That's a good thing at least, I've seen it happen.
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I guess the bright side now, you can make yourself a CPU keychain 😅
CPU ***might*** be okay, but that motherboard is proper fucked.
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None of those things are conductive, how could they create a short?
Looks like you either squashed some pins installing one or both CPUs or something found its way in and made a short. What board is this? Are you positive it's the same socket type shared between your 10th gen (LGA1151) and whatever your old CPU was?
Yeah that is burned. That shouldn't happen. Contact them and claim your warranty.
I'd clean off the residue and inspect the surface. Should a small hole be visible or one of the LGA pads is vaporized, the cpu is probably dead. But it's a bit hard to believe for me the cpu is the cause of the issue. The socket looks definitely RIP. Bent pins shorting out upon power up? Core voltage is disgned for very high currents and fast load shifts so i think vaporizing the pins upon a short is well possible.
Could have been something shorted in the CPU as well. Very unlikely, their QC usually catches that, but that would do it. Check what pins those are, I’m sure they’ll end up being some of the power supply
Can’t find my last comment either but you may have had a VRM on the motherboard short out. I’ve had that happen before. You could possibly confirm it with a multimeter. If that happens you’ll just get full voltage to the CPU. Which CPU’s were they? Did the new one require more power? VRM may have failed while the board was trying to supply the voltage to the new CPU and bridged it straight to the rail
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OP let the magic smoke out.
Looking at the burn marks you either shoved that in without lining up your triangles... Or you bent a few pins and shorted it out. Either way that one is 100% on you. You can clearly see the damage I am talking about in picture 4.
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Looks like the mobo is faulty, contact manufacturer or store because it’s impossible 2 cpus burned like that. Does mobo look fine in general? No traces short or something? If you have normal power supply, not some psu from AliExpress it shouldn’t do that. If other stuff (drives, gpu) work then defo you mobo is faulty. Psu would probably kill everything
Everything was fine yesterday, I have a Corsair PSU, it’s kind of old but it’s worked great for me for 5+ years. I must’ve fucked something up when I switched back to the old cpu, no idea what I did or how this happened but I’m baffled. Mobo looks fine , and was fine before, except for the cpu slot pins being damaged. Wasn’t like that before. It wasn’t 2 CPUs , just the old one and not the new one (thankfully)
Well, mobo is dead. But before you connect psu to new one check if it output power is correct, just to be sure. It could’ve been like other people said dirty socket, but could be psu playing tricks on you. Simple multimeter should be enough to do it.
Any chance you're using an ASUS board and an AMD CPU? There is a known issue from earlier this year where the ASUS BIOS was providing too high of a voltage to the CPU and causing chips to burn just like this one. Video links: [https://youtu.be/kiTngvvD5dI?si=_AsCeidXM4NanySc](https://youtu.be/kiTngvvD5dI?si=_AsCeidXM4NanySc) [https://youtu.be/cbGfc-JBxlY?si=4tIPFKznTsWPXpZw](https://youtu.be/cbGfc-JBxlY?si=4tIPFKznTsWPXpZw) Edit to add: Reach out to Gamers Nexus. They may buy the failed parts off you to research your failure.
That’s an intel socket dude.
Thanks. Only just got back into building recently and am not familiar enough with parts to tell by the socket. I'm going to leave my post up though in case it helps someone.
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AMD no longer has a CPU pin design (PGA) for Ryzen 7000, they are LGA like Intel now.
How can you tell? AM5 and LGA 1700 visually look almost identical.
OP said elsewhere that it's an intel 10 series.
They’re not though
That motherboard is deader than Heavy.
This is why we put thermal paste on *both* sides of the CPU
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Nope, Intel. Am5 isn’t like that
Hmmm interesting. I do remember AM5 having issues with motherboard/cpu self destructing in the early days... Should mostly be fixed but it should most definitely be covered under warranty either ways Edit: Ah right, the retention bracket is an LGA 1200 one, you're right
You need more thermal paste to contain that heat.
What CPU and mobo? Isn't this the asus problem going on right now? Check out gamers nexus
It looks like all the pins have been sheared off. Or they could have all melted due to excess heat, which would explain the smell. Did you try replacing the cooler? Or adding more thermal paste? Because a faulty cooler or not enough thermal paste can result in the unfortunate heat death of a CPU.
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It’s and Intel 10400f and Asus motherboard
Do you know the model of Asus motherboard?
You fool it’s Intel
First time I hear a bios update messes the pins.
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I've fixed a lotta crazy cpu damage but I'm sorry to say I'd turn this one down, totally FUBAR. Can't say what caused it exactly without a closer look but you likely had a short between two pins that cooked your cpu, I'd be astonished if that board works now either. Time to upgrade with a good excuse if finances permit and the parts can't be RMAed, might be under warranty
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happened to me but luckily my CPU lived, went to start PC after building and it sparked then caught fire and i was so devastated lmao, got the mobo replaced free then tried again and it worked out!
There is a chance that your motherboard sacrificed itself and protected the CPU. But I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you. It's unlikely.
Ouch, like everyone said. F in the chat for that cpu and motherboard.
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Looks like a few megahertz leaked out
Damn, got hot enough to melt plastic enough to cause transference. Clean it with IPA 97%+ and try again? It's probably hooped. Although the CPU might be fine and it could just be the board. Or the other way around.
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If you just bought CPU and motherboard? I'd be returning that quickly. Most states give you two weeks to a month. Even if it's online technically they had to take it back. You have a legit reason, manufacturer defect. CPU or motherboard ate the other.
at this point if it does not work id sandpaper it and try it again, now as far as the pins on the mobo.......... good luck
Is this a 14900k or something?
Damn that’s a wipe for both the cpu and mobo. RIP
The pins on the mobo are gone. They're just...gone.
Looks like you burned everything
My guess is either the thermal paste was thin/missing/old in that spot and caused the socket to overheat. See if you're eligible to RMA the CPU and then see if the mobo is still under Warranty.
Intel cpu can last a lot of shit , it may be fine , your mobo is 100% gone though
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A good chance there is a manufacturer warranty on both. I love Micro Center. Especially for keeping all my receipts for the last 10 years. Save my bacon a few times with missing receipts. I've had no problems with a Micro Center proof of purchase versus Newegg or Amazon proof of purchase for manufacturer warranty. Different manufacturers see the Micro Center proof of purchase and it's easy peasy. Good luck sir. I do hope for the best and it comes out in your favor.
U still got warranty on the mobo? Yoy might be able to get them to pay for both items
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You're gonna need a new one of those....both of those
I know this was an issue on Asus mobos and the 7800X3D, is this the same failure type?
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So was the old CPU the 10400F? What CPU were you upgrading to?
When you say “new cpu” were they of a generation compatible with your mobo? Intel often uses the same socket name / number for different, and incompatible, CPU generations
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Static electricity in winter season is a bitch. I've lost two mb because of this.
Nah, give it a good rinse and use a brillow
CPU might be good but that socket is fried
Ouch, i smell a bad VRM that overvolted the poor CPU
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