Trying to switch motherboards but stripped screw on cooler backplate thing and so cannot get it off. Any ideas?
Trying to switch motherboards but stripped screw on cooler backplate thing and so cannot get it off. Any ideas?
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If you stripped it that badly you’ll probably have to drill it out.
Try an extractor :
https://www.amazon.ca/Extractor-Upgraded-Version-Diyife-Stripped/dp/B07MRLLPJX
Otherwise, drilling time. Welcome to a car mechanic’s daily life.
Try pouring a small amount of milk on it! That should do the trick.
Rip
Hope you got a steady hand
If you’re going to drill it, first try from the other side, so if the drill grips it, it might unscrew itself.
You just won the motherboard lottery.
“Sorry honey, it couldn’t be salvaged. I had to replace it with an AM5 motherboard.”
Drill it out, gently.
Rubber band over screw, driver over rubber band.
Or
Dot of super glue on screw head, shitty disposable driver on glue. Wait, twist.
No idea if this is actually a good idea, but:
If the metal was that moldable, could you try etching a line across the ridges and create a wide Philips head slot? Then once it’s out get it replaced.
May be a horrible idea. Just thinking outside the box.
Need that motherboard? If not just chisel that fucker out.
Or, if the other end of the screw sticks out the other side enough you could try backing it out with some vice grips a bit or getting a bite by putting a rubber band in the hole, though it looks too far gone to work.
Update: cut off the plastic as close the the screw as possible and twisted that instead of the screw. Worked like a charm and my pc is not having any of the problems my old motherboard was causing!
Cut a slot in the screw head with dermal cutting wheel then use a flat blade screwdriver, easy and not destructive
does not help you now, but use the proper screwdriver next time.
Use this as the perfect opportunity to upgrade.
Is it a hex head?
Brother screwed it in with a drill 😂
You got 3/4 out so you should be able to just turn the backplate around on the other side till it comes off
Boy, you’re screwed! …had to say it, sorry
They make drill bits to help remove stripped screws
Wraith Prism?
Glad you got the screw out!
In the future, use hand tools, and not pneumatic impacts.
Narrow vice grips
I got a hacksaw if you got a beer.
Personally I’d get a pair of vice grips and glue thin strips of sandpaper to the inside of the pliers and then try to get it to clamp onto the head of the screw. Have done this dozens of times with great success. Heat also helps if you wanna blow dry it until it’s warm it will relax the materials.
Could also get some very strong epoxy and adhere an Allen wrench into the stripped part but make sure you give it like a full 24hrs to cure.
Try putting a rubber band over the screw and unscrewing it.
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned this, but once you resolve the issue, make sure to clean off the whole board with compressed air or similar. You likely have conductive metal shavings all over it already, and most removal techniques will only add to the problem.
Open the back panel and use needle nose pliers to slow twist the screw out from the bottom threads. Once you move it 2 or 3 full threads go back to the front and you should be able to grab the head of the screw. That’s your safest option. And backing the screw out from the bottom WILL NOT be easy.
DO NOT USE A DRILL ON YOUR MB. Idk if they are trolling you or just not knowledgeable, but do not use a drill unless it’s your absolute last resort. Don’t use the stripped screw pullers either you have to beat then into the screw head.
If my previous suggestion isn’t possible, the rubber band trick could work depending on how torqued down the screw is. Google search stripped screw head rubber band trick. The key to the rubber band trick is lots and lots of downward pressure, so the surface of the rubber can grip to the screw and the driver..
A drill running near your hard drives can erase them it’s a spinning magnetic field you don’t wanna stick that in your computer.
You need to drill the screw out it’s way too stripped for any other way