Cool, as soon as the new board arrives I'll give this a try and see. Thanks,ivnj

Glad to help

OK, so I decided to take the plunge. I just got the board in the mail today. I put red paper washers in the top side of board holes. I screwed it on. Plugged in ram, cpu, video, hard drive, power supply, and fans, etc. Booted right away, so I guess cpu was not fried after all. And I also applied thermal grease between the cpu and fan.

So all woks now. So thanks for all your help.

ivnj

Thanks for reporting the results back glad it all worked for you