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Old 24-01-2011, 00:21   #6
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Originally Posted by Kymmy View Post
..Turned out that the AM2/3 socket had sheared off one of the fan retension lugs so the bang was the fan clip rebounding.......

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.



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