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Tyler09
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37 minutes ago, Tyler09 said:

I bought some parts from a friend of mine but the motherboard came in the case, the screw is stuck spinning in place

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Id assume the screw is cross threaded into the standoff.

 

Take the mobo out (if the standoff is spinning with the screw, you will just end up unscrewing the standoff from the case) and be able to pull the mobo out. Then you can get pliers on the stand off and unscrew the screw from it.

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

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10 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Id assume the screw is cross threaded into the standoff.

 

Take the mobo out (if the standoff is spinning with the screw, you will just end up unscrewing the standoff from the case) and be able to pull the mobo out. Then you can get pliers on the stand off and unscrew the screw from it.

Sorry could you be a little more walkthrough

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7 minutes ago, Tyler09 said:

Sorry could you be a little more walkthrough

 

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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19 minutes ago, Tyler09 said:

It didn’t work

What do you mean it didn’t work? You have the motherboard out of the case, sitting on your desk, and grabbing the stand-off with pliers and trying to unscrew the screw didn’t work?


If yes, the mobo is out and you can’t get it off, you will just need to try harder. The screw is cross threaded into the stand-off and your basically going to be forcing the threads against the stand-off threads to come out, cross threaded fasteners are not easy to get out. It will take some actual force. Get a good screwdriver that fits the screw well so it won’t slip or strip, grab the stand-off with plies really good (or better yet, find a socket that fits and use a ratchet), and really put force into it. The stand-off and screw are trash anyways, so no need to be nice to them, once they are apart, throw them out since the threads will be destroyed. 

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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59 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

What do you mean it didn’t work? You have the motherboard out of the case, sitting on your desk, and grabbing the stand-off with pliers and trying to unscrew the screw didn’t work?


If yes, the mobo is out and you can’t get it off, you will just need to try harder. The screw is cross threaded into the stand-off and your basically going to be forcing the threads against the stand-off threads to come out, cross threaded fasteners are not easy to get out. It will take some actual force. Get a good screwdriver that fits the screw well so it won’t slip or strip, grab the stand-off with plies really good (or better yet, find a socket that fits and use a ratchet), and really put force into it. The stand-off and screw are trash anyways, so no need to be nice to them, once they are apart, throw them out since the threads will be destroyed. 

I am getting it out of the case it is stuck because of the screw

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18 minutes ago, Tyler09 said:

I am getting it out of the case it is stuck because of the screw

If you try and loosen that screw, it should unscrew then stand-off. Then you can pull the mobo out and it’ll be like what you see in the video.

 

 

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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