buy a new one. when it come back sell it away.
I thought about this as well, but I have kinda forgotten what's included in the packaging for the motherboard. I am worried that I might shortchange buyers by giving lesser screws or something.
Second, but most important point is gf said I'm not allowed to get another board. I need to pay the price for my own mistakes hahahahaha
Reading this, i assume you did not off the main power supply, discharge current and ground yourself while replacing
cooling fan ?
I did power off everything, even removing the power supply from the psu. Grounding myself properly.
What I did was remove the two ID-Cooling fans from my Radiator and move it to the front panel.
Removed the front panel's fan and threw them away.
Add new fans and attach them back to my radiator.
I might have screwed up by trying to use multiple hubs. I already have an ID cooling Fan+ARGB hub.
Then the new DeepCool Fans that I bought cannot use my existing hub for the RGB, so had to use its own hub.
Maybe when connecting all these fans, argb connectors to the hub and motherboard might have shorted a small part of it.
Even before covid this is the protocol if they need to sent back to whatever country to repair. They will loan you a spare board to use usually.
I see, i just didn't expect a 4-8 weeks lead time. When they mentioned warehouse, i thought they have a warehouse in Singapore that does repairs hahahaha. No mention of a spare board, but i wouldn't use a spare board too.
Usually the things that can go wrong when changing things like CPU cooler,
1. Over flexing the motherboard - This can happen if you use too much force to install or remove the cooler. Otherwise, you may have over tighten the screws on the mounting.
2. Accidental scratching on the board - Those fine tracing on the board if damaged may result in the board failing
3. Killed by electrostatic - To me, this is less of a problem in Singapore generally. At least I've never killed anything due to electrostatic over the decades. But if the room that you are fixing the PC is air-conditioned, then there is a slight chance.
The chances of killing the board due to connecting the fan header to something wrong is unlikely. First the header is made in such a way that it only fits the fan or pump header. In any case, since you have sent it in, let them go fix it. If any issues, CDL would inform you.
I was using the ID Cooling auraflow 240. I just wanted to change the fans because it was creating this metal rattling sound whenever RPM goes between 1200-1400RPM. The sound doesn't come when its below are after the RPMs.
Maybe I screw up on the daisy chain and didn't insert those 5V or 12V rgb headers properly?
Based on their testing, the motherboard is receiving power from the PSU, but it stops somewhere at the CPU area.
^^^^ this.
I have an identical Gigabyte AX370 Gaming K7 as backup in case the one in my rig goes down.
Thought about it, but not allowed to get a spare hahaha