All Done, works like a charm. Gigabyte gave me a new serial number/new motherboard.
Maybe I did something stupid to smash the cpu-socket pins? I recall back when I had to keep doing steps over and over and switching CPUs was one of those steps. While waiting for the replacement CPU, I wanted to put the CPU socket cover back on the mobo, and I recall not being clear about how to get that cover back on. So I searched the internet and the advice was that it just snaps on??? Snaps on to what? I dunno. Could be that I smashed the pins at that point?? I dunno.
The square CPU clamp is installed. The Noctua NH-L12 Ghost S1 Edition cooler is installed and it fills up the case except for maybe 1mm leftover space. I think that I will be happy with the Core i5-12500 6/12 cores/threads 65 W TDP, instead of the beefier Core i5 12600K 10 core CPU 125 W TDP. I don't need that much power.
It's the black computer on your right in this picture. Thank you all very much for the help with this!!
Maybe I did something stupid to smash the cpu-socket pins? I recall back when I had to keep doing steps over and over and switching CPUs was one of those steps. While waiting for the replacement CPU, I wanted to put the CPU socket cover back on the mobo, and I recall not being clear about how to get that cover back on. So I searched the internet and the advice was that it just snaps on??? Snaps on to what? I dunno. Could be that I smashed the pins at that point?? I dunno.
The square CPU clamp is installed. The Noctua NH-L12 Ghost S1 Edition cooler is installed and it fills up the case except for maybe 1mm leftover space. I think that I will be happy with the Core i5-12500 6/12 cores/threads 65 W TDP, instead of the beefier Core i5 12600K 10 core CPU 125 W TDP. I don't need that much power.
It's the black computer on your right in this picture. Thank you all very much for the help with this!!