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IHS Removal
Has anyone had experience or have done this? I did this a month ago while waiting for my video card to arrive. It appears to be in perfect condition but my system appears not to POST. I tried another CPU of the same type that also had the IHS removed (and was tested working on another system) but again got nothing. I have in fact RMAd the motherboard and received another one but get the same result. I am now down to either PSU or CPU. Like I said above the IHS looks good, only one tiny nick(or more of a tiny scratch) on the die but otherwise it's perfect. Now to question: has anyone done IHS removal and had done something wrong to the CPU and got bad results? I am hoping that it is the PSU since it is still under warranty, of course the CPU is not since I did the removal.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by ben946210; 26 Mar 2013 at 17:44.