Bang!!!!
 

Was using the PC about an hour ago and heard a bang from inside the casing.. No flash through the perspex side and the PC stayed on so that puzzled me as to what it was..

Turned out that the AM2/3 socket had sheared off one of the fan retension lugs so the bang was the fan clip rebounding. Glad it wasn't unattended and that the heat transfer compund had bonded the heatsink to the cpu otherwise it would have been a burnt out processor (old x2 600+ (125w) which run quite hot).

A bit of stripdown (pc not me) and a bit of wire wrap and new HTC and I'm back up and running, have though ordered a new HS/F mount from ebay though..

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:D

I would have been in a cold sweat!

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Look's like you were lucky then as you were there.

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it should have got hot and shut down as long as bios protection was still in place and not disabled

had a similar thing happen with a skt 939 board turned it on heard a bang and the bracket had broke what I heard was the HFS hitting the side panel lol

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Is it an Asus motherboard by some chance?

This exact thing happened to me about 2 months ago on a Asus motherboard.

Ordered a new retention module from a shop I found after a google search as I don't trust buying from e-bay and all was better.



Berkut

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I dont know why they make these things plastic still CPU fans are getting heavier these days

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Yep it was an ASUS (three years old)

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To be fair to Asus I have been quite happy with the performance of the board (ALiveNFS-eSATA 2+), but, having the retention module snap like that on a motherboard that is less than 2 years old concerned me.

I normally buy Gigabyte boards but chose the Asus as it was giving more for the price than the equivalent Gigabyte at the same price.

I would now think twice about buying another Asus board.

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Most Asus boards now come with a 3 year warranty so if it did snap of within the 3 years you just send it to them, and they "should" fix or replace it for you.

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Damn I am losing my marbles.... not an Asus board I have it is an Asrock....

<./>... puts on jacket and quietly leaves before anyone notices red face.. </.>

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3 and a half years to be exact..

Not as if though I can't fix them myself :D