Would work, except: Basically, there isn't a way to fix this kind've thing at a consumer level. Takes expensive parts, that are (afaik) only sold in bulk
Aye, but my answer was for the scenario of a severed track and not a dislodged surface mounted component. ;-)
The same thing happened to me, and I gave Asus' RMA department a call, they said go ahead and return it, some loophole that doesnt leave me liable for the damage, turns out they consider that heatsink manufacturer's fault, not mine, Once again, ROCK ON ASUS!
just make sure you align the notch without putting pressure on it first that way it wont slip and then when its aligned push it down and out so it latches on. that way youre not moving it laterally while youre pushing it and thats whats gonna make it slip
here's a bit of mobo horror stories. When i was doing a coop in high school, one of the techs therea ctually managed to ram a screw driver through the motherboard, he then tried to get it to post Or how about this one, a friends of mines kids thought it would be "funny" to cram a PBJ sandwich into the floppy drive
When on the subject of punctuation... Ok, those components usually have a ceramic core, they are really easy to break in half since they have allmost no flexibility. And for the resistors, At least in sweden, you can get them one and one in sizes 0603, 0804 and 1206 at no real cost if you only need one or two, it's harder with SMD mini-capacitors since, while they are available to buy, they usually are not marked with the value, and you can't really measure value on a cracked cap even if you have an accurate capacitor meter.
the problem isnt really just the resistor he could have cracked the mobo and not know etc etc and sandwiches soudns funny... we used to light stuff on fire and put it on the cd tray and close the drive lol those rm computers are ****ing bulletproof (and fireproof btw)
My stock athlon's heatsink came with these green plastic "safety things" that made screw driver sink in deep so it would prevent such accidents.
