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Some motherboards are real bastards to get the cpu and hsf in without flexing a lot, it's not really a problem when making a new build cuz you can hold the board in your (clean, dry static free) hands and support the back while you put the cpu and heat sink and fan in. It can be a problem when you don't want to take it out of the case though, I support the board as much as I can with my fingers.
Don't let this put you off though, just buy a new board and install the cpu and hsf before you put it in the case. Make sure you are static free and that when you hold the board you only hold it by the edges and just use a finger or 2 on the underside of the board where the cpu goes (on a flat uneventful bit, not on one of the pointy solder parts) when you need to support it. Not so great to just lay the thing down on a flat surface and push down since there are little bits of solder and stuff on the underside that could get broken off that way. You can have it out in front of you but just put one hand in underneath it with a finger or two for support where it's required to stop flex. Always lay the board on static bags when you are not holding it, and keep grounding yourself as you go. But seriously, don't worry, it's not very hard.
I don't mean to make this difficult but the nature of mboards dying is such that I'm never totally convinced that it's actually dead unless I see a domed capacitor (which ddp taught me to always look out for now) or some other sign or sure fire way of telling such as testing it with other components. Can you see any blown capacitors on your board? The cylindrical capacitors standing up right, are any of the tops of them domed up? They should be flat. Can you test it with a different power supply? And are you 100% sure that you have ALL the required power cables in, such as the auxillary 4pin cable from the power supply to the mboard (I don't know if these are used at all in amd socket boards even), this had me packing my mboard up for a return in the past before someone alerting me to what was wrong, the symptoms sound perfect for an auxillary power cable not in somewhere.
If all these things can be satisified then I guess you bent it a bit too much, I hope it's still under warranty.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 31. August 2007 @ 19:40
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