Dam, hopefully you can get the system up and running soon.

I hope it's an easy problem that you can solve.

All problems can be easily solved with money. I'm a bit worried though if I have to send back the mainboard. Dunno if I can find all of the parts or if I've thrown out some stuff already.

Maybe prebuilt PC would have been best solution.

That sucks . I hope you can find the parts... or that the store don't give it a close look.

That's what cowards do

Wouldn't know how. I needed very specific parts. The only advantage of that would've been that it's partly already built, but I can get that service at any good PC part retailer anyway. I could've gotten most of it prebuilt and I would've definitely done it but at the time of purchase I wanted to keep my old cooler so nothing could've been prebuilt.

There is nothing you can really do to prevent broken hardware. If anything, this has taught me to never ever try to keep old parts.

The ASUS board says it even in the manual that if the mainboard is sent back without the little plastic cover for the CPU socket it won't be taken back^^

We'll see. I still have hope that I can fix it somehow or that I just made a small mistake somewhere.

Did you bought it directly from Asus? Because a store cna have a different policy.

Also, it's very unlikely, but can it be that you know someone with a compatible board and or CPU you can "borrow" to test what's wrong?

I will check if there is maybe a PC repair store near me which can check it out. I'm not excluding the possibility of me doing something completely wrong.

Can you take pictures?