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    Posted: 15 Dec 2023 at 2:46am
Hi, I really need some assistance here in that asrock RMA support indicated i could not send my 2 Asrock MB to them for cleaning and repair. I am not happy wit that answer and i want these two motherboards to be checked.

here are the specs:

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Asrock - x370 fatality gaming K4 - ryzen amd
the issue with this board it has thermal paste on the cpu socket not a lot but not sure how to clean it other than this it should be ok.

next board is

Asrock - x370 gaming fatality NON K4 mb, amd ryzen.

issue with this board is that it is flashed with incorrect BIOS version I was told by Asrock to flash the bios back to older version i was not able to do this and i have since replaced this MB with a new one to use in my desktop pc. it has become unstable.

PLease give me some insight into doing the work myself if i can not send in for RMA ?

I also have a Ryzen processor with some of the pins are bent how can i do this what equipment do i need ?

thanks for any insight
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For the first one, you can try flooding the socket with CRC Electronics Cleaner. It worked for me.

Now a story time (you can skip this part): I bought a "new" B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/AX from Amazon (sold & shipped by Amazon) some 3 years ago. It turned out to be a return, where the previous person somehow contaminated the socket with thermal paste, cleaned it up externally and returned it. I found that out after return period, so I did the CRC Electronics Cleaner flood and it worked for me. Needless to say, I try to avoid purchasing from vendors with lax return policy, and if I do end up buying from one, I inspect it very carefully as soon as I get it and return it if I find anything suspicious.

For the second one, there are tools to hook onto the EEPROM chip to reprogram. Depending on board design, it may not work. In that case, you'd have to de-solder the EEPROM chip, program it, and re-solder it. If the board can still boot to DOS, I'd think there's some way to force flashing it to any version of BIOS, but I'm no expert.
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the cleaner is this what you refer too ?

https://www.harborfreight.com/11-oz-electronics-cleaner-62228.html?ccdenc=eyJjb2RlIjoiNTY3NzI0ODIiLCJza3UiOiI2MjIyOCIsImlzIjoiOC45OSJ9&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=12144811130&campaignid=12144811130&utm_content=128369721075&adsetid=128369721075&product=62228&store=54&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAj_CrBhD-ARIsAIiMxT-RaKTrwOU_6sq2ayaEaF19CiHOvpXXWM6WTR8Xl0bpp0C_CQGxHtsaAtx2EALw_wcB
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Yes, that's what I used.
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Originally posted by eccential eccential wrote:

For the second one, there are tools to hook onto the EEPROM chip to reprogram. Depending on board design, it may not work. In that case, you'd have to de-solder the EEPROM chip, program it, and re-solder it. If the board can still boot to DOS, I'd think there's some way to force flashing it to any version of BIOS, but I'm no expert.

asrock boards should have spi flash connector...but even if there wasnt one, arent there soic test clips for this? (SOP8 in this case)

Edited by kerberos_20 - 16 Dec 2023 at 12:54pm

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not sure , maybe a tut somewhere maybe i can flash it back the instructions from asrock did not work.
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