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One hot 12700k 100c - Asus Z690-i - NR200P Max - Solved

Well, RIP—this PC definitely checked out earlier than expected. Shut it down at the office, brought it home, and it flat-out refused to turn back on. When I hit the power button, the fans twitch a quarter turn and that’s it.
I had it lying flat on the seat during the drive home over some speed bumps, so I wondered if the socket pins got tweaked, but nothing looked visibly out of place. It’s either the 12700K, the motherboard, or something totally obvious I’m missing. The PSU is fine. I'm guessing the contact frame/washer mod combined with years of heat cycles finally caught up to it.

Silver lining, though: I picked up a new X870E ACE Max and a Ryzen 9. Absolute beast of a CPU. I was worried my old Intel-spec 6000 MT/s CL36 kit wouldn't play nice since it wasn’t on the QVL, but I'm happy to report it's kicking ass.
 

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Well, RIP—this PC definitely checked out earlier than expected. Shut it down at the office, brought it home, and it flat-out refused to turn back on. When I hit the power button, the fans twitch a quarter turn and that’s it.
I had it lying flat on the seat during the drive home over some speed bumps, so I wondered if the socket pins got tweaked, but nothing looked visibly out of place. It’s either the 12700K, the motherboard, or something totally obvious I’m missing. The PSU is fine. I'm guessing the contact frame/washer mod combined with years of heat cycles finally caught up to it.

Silver lining, though: I picked up a new X870E ACE Max and a Ryzen 9. Absolute beast of a CPU. I was worried my old Intel-spec 6000 MT/s CL36 kit wouldn't play nice since it wasn’t on the QVL, but I'm happy to report it's kicking ass.
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Did you try putting it all back together again?

I have experienced a PC which wouldn't boot after transporting it. And for some reason I had to unplug all of the PSU cables, and replug them.
 
Cinebench R23 both CPUs OC

12700k
MC: 23262
SC: 2023

9950x3d2
MC: 46432
SC: 2227

chameleoneel said:
Did you try putting it all back together again?

I have experienced a PC which wouldn't boot after transporting it. And for some reason I had to unplug all of the PSU cables, and replug them.
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Nope, ive done rookie mistake i touched the pins with latex gloves on and it bent 3 of them without even noticing. Easy fix, but i couldn't find my intel plastic cpu cover for aligning the CPU back in.
Do you guys use that for reseating CPU again ?

I didn't have time to troubleshoot, so just ran down the road, got new case, cpu and motherboard. Been using the PC for work doing some AI automation on local LLM.

Needed bigger, motherboard and case for more ram and additional gpu.
 

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Cinebench R23 both CPUs OC

12700k
MC: 23262
SC: 2023

9950x3d2
MC: 46432
SC: 2227


Nope, ive done rookie mistake i touched the pins with latex gloves on and it bent 3 of them without even noticing. Easy fix, but i couldn't find my intel plastic cpu cover for aligning the CPU back in.
Do you guys use that for reseating CPU again ?

I didn't have time to troubleshoot, so just ran down the road, got new case, cpu and motherboard. Been using the PC for work doing some AI automation on local LLM.

Needed bigger, motherboard and case for more ram and additional gpu.
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The plastic cover is mostly for protection when there is no CPU in the socket. It can be used during installation, but you would be fine just carefully placing the CPU and aligning it with the socket while the motherboard is horizontal.
 
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