Strange black cube glued to my brand new ROG STRIX board

[DeKaDancer]

I am just building my pc and when I removed the heat sink from the m2 slot on my brand new ROG STRIX z370-e to slot the nvme I found a black cube glued to the board. 

 

The cube (see attached pic) is blocking me from installing an nvme to that m2 slot. No where in the manual or other spec did I find any explantion about this cube. 

 

I’m super tempted to just yank it out assuming it’s some kind of a packing material, but I’m also concerned that I’m missing something and will break the board. 

 

Please advise. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

I would imagine it gives support to the M.2 shield for shipping and whatnot.

 

You'll likely be fine to remove it.

[Guest]

I went back through some build logs and it was present on all boards. I remember it compressing fairly easily though.

 

Brought up the exposure and shadows so you can see it better. If anything I'd say trim it rather than remove. Perhaps they just used too big of a piece. Seems like it's meant to keep the drive from touching the metal posts.

[Zmax]

20 minutes ago, Legendarypoet said:

I Brought up the exposure and shadows so you can see it better. If anything I'd say trim it rather than remove. Perhaps they just used too big of a piece. Seems like it's meant to keep the drive from touching the metal posts.

I tend to agree on the support. 

One thing you can do is Email support at Asus and see.

[Silver47]

43 minutes ago, DeKaDancer said:

Please advise. 

Send an Email to Asus support. They usually reply very quickly.