8 pin stuck

[Meefy777]

So I ordered a 3080 strix. Hasn’t came yet. In the mean time I needed to upgrade my PSU. Although I can’t get my 8 pin out of my motherboard. It’s an MSI X570-A pro. Attached an image of it. The VRM cooler doesn’t give me any clearance. Terrible design to be honest. Could anyone tell me what to do? Been trying a lot of things but I’m afraid of breaking my motherboard. Thanks

[Mister Woof]

If you can't physically get in there, your best bet is to move the psu in a way that gives you some slack (,or disconnect the other end of it is modular), then take the motherboard out.

 

Otherwise if you have some long needlonose pliers you might be able to grab it.

 

Be glad you o ly have the AMD cooler and not some giant monster like a NHD15

[flibberdipper]

Assuming your hands can actually fit in that space, reaching in, clamping down on the very end of the clip as much as you feasibly can, and then slowly working it side to side while pulling out should be enough to get it free, otherwise you may as well get some pliers and basically do the same thing.

 

The more reach-around method is as Woof said, pull the PSU out so you have slack to pull the mobo out, and do it that way.

[CommanderAlex]

13 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

If you can't physically get in there, your best bet is to move the PSU in a way that gives you some slack (,or disconnect the other end of it is modular), then take the motherboard out.

 

Otherwise if you have some long needlenose pliers you might be able to grab it.

 

Be glad you only have the AMD cooler and not some giant monster like a NHD15

How about a long flat head screw driver to get under the clip to push it away from the stud on the EPS connector?? Try that with the screwdriver in your right hand while trying to push the lock inward to try and get it past that stud to remove the connector with your left hand? Lay the computer on its side while doing so. 

[Mister Woof]

2 minutes ago, SpiderMan said:

How about a long flat head screw driver to get under the clip to push it away from the stud on the EPS connector?? Try that with the screwdriver in your right hand while trying to push the lock inward to try and get it past that stud to remove the connector with your left hand? Lay the computer on its side while doing so. 

could work.

 

I have to use a long flathead to get to the PCIE clip when I take GPUs out, but it stresses me the F out every time I do it. THere's like 2cm of clearance between the GPU and CPU cooler and no way i'm taking the cooler off

 

 

In fact just the thought of having to remove the EPS right now makes me angry

[CommanderAlex]

6 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

could work.

 

I have to use a long flathead to get to the PCIE clip when I take GPUs out, but it stresses me the F out every time I do it

It sucks right??? I use the metal spatula with the iFixIt Tool kit and get pretty parallel with the mobo to get in between my NH-D15 and the RTX 2080. I tried using the end of a wood pencil but its too thick. Maybe a popsicle stick could do as well.