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Screw my motherboard

  • 26-03-2008 12:38pm
    #1
    TheAmateur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭


    I'm installing a graphics card here and a feckin screw got stuck under my motherboard. Please, please any suggestions on how to get it out? I don't have a magnetic screwdriver, or a magnet for that matter. I've tried banging the pc lightly on the ground and modifying a cotton swab to get underneath it, but no luck. I just want to install my card:( Help?


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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,758 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    TheAmateur wrote: »
    I'm installing a graphics card here and a feckin screw got stuck under my motherboard. Please, please any suggestions on how to get it out? I don't have a magnetic screwdriver, or a magnet for that matter. I've tried banging the pc lightly on the ground and modifying a cotton swab to get underneath it, but no luck. I just want to install my card:( Help?

    You can just undo the nearest screw holding the board to the case and release it that way.


  • #3
    TheAmateur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭TheAmateur


    Thanks for the reply! Just out of curiosity, what'd be the dangers of leaving it there?


  • #4
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    TheAmateur wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply! Just out of curiosity, what'd be the dangers of leaving it there?

    the universe could implode...

    or a simple electrical short could happen across your motherboard killing your pc.

    best to remove it pronto


  • #5
    TheAmateur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭TheAmateur


    L31mr0d wrote: »
    a simple electrical short could happen across your motherboard killing your pc.
    Dammit. That's what I thought. Feck Dell and their feckin case designs. Looks like it's pretty snug under there. I'm going to have to take the motherboard up. All for a screw. Thanks for the reply btw.:)


  • #6
    TheAmateur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 582 ✭✭✭TheAmateur


    It's done. After a 10 minute pinball (should it be screwball) game involving me, my pc, 2 screwdrivers and lets not forget that feckin screw, during which time I dropped the pc, and am unsure whether it'll boot up, I got the bástaird in a pincer move with the 2 screwdrivers and dragged the smiling screw out by the head. I'm off to smash it with a hammer. Thanks for the replies doods.:D


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