Can't install CPU fan onto motherboard.

[Kanna]

My friend had to change the thermal paste in his PC as temps were just way too high, but then I noticed his cooler just pulled right off, didn't think much but when I tried to put it back it just wouldn't clip in so it was loose everytime in the mounting holes, the cooler is a cooler master hyper TX3i and the board is an Asus Rog Strix b360-f gaming. My description is not the best, but feel free to try help anyway. Edit : here we got two in on the left but the other two don't feel like they go in even with force

[AI_Must_Di3]

Yes, on those old OEM Intel style mounts you have to push the black plastic push rod thru AFTER the white one goes thru the board, that spreads the white tips of the outside white one to grab the mobo pcb on the other side, but to lock it in you have to turn the black piece in the middle that you just punched thru. Theyre a PITA and is a great reason to update your cooler or change the mounting system to something else that you mod/make. Worst system ever! You see in your pict how the upper left/lower left ones have the black tip thru the white? The rest do not? Thats the problem.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

For mounting those push pin coolers

 

1   3

2   4

 

Imagine these are the pins, so youll wanna start off by mounting a pin, so pin 1 for instance, then the pin opposite to pin 1 which is pin 4 youll also wanna mount it, needs a shit ton of force to mount but youll wanna push down on the metal bracket below the push pin and keep pushing till you can actually mount pin 4, then its simply doing the same thing for the other 2 pins

 

You will need a ton of force so dont go easy with it, just make sure the board isnt bending too much or anything

 

I do this for mounting 775 copper cores but im sure its applicable here aswell

[Kanna]

5 minutes ago, AI_Must_Di3 said:

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3 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

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Yeah I forwarded that my friend might eventually need an upgrade, but as for this one I put a lot of force but the black pin just won't pop in place or should I turn it while pressing down, it's kinda sketchy because I don't want to press since the mobo is like almost flexing

[thekingofmonks]

This might help as well: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005852/processors.html

[Kanna]

12 minutes ago, thekingofmonks said:

This might help as well: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005852/processors.html

I checked this out, and it's the method I'm doing, but these spin things don't have a stop

[Kanna]

Update, we solved it with a mix of the tips here and own thinking, we temporarily mounted this one as good as we could as it was quite difficult, and ordered a new one with better mounting and performance that will arrive in a few days.