{"id":11634,"date":"2021-12-08T05:49:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=11634"},"modified":"2021-12-08T05:49:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:49:17","slug":"solved-motherboard-problems-heatsinks-loose","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/motherboard-problems-heatsinks-loose\/90531.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Motherboard Problems: Heatsinks Loose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so with the holidays i was able to purchase all my components. Im opening up the motherboard box, a msi z77a g45, when i noticed tears in the antistatic bag. There was no cushioning on either of the large sides of the mobo, so it got tossed around. I wiggle one of the heatsinks, and its loose. I can easily fix it by tightening the mounting screws, but im afraid ill short out the mobo. Should i ground myself and use the ole metallic tools or should I buy plastic tools?<\/p>\n<p>thanks and happy holidays.<\/p>\n<p>mobo:http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130687<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><i>message edited by thatnewguy<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":4},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-11634","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/11634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}