Spilled Thermal Compound on MSI X370 Motherboard CPU Socket

[cstephenson]

Hello,
While trouble shooting my new setup (MSI X370 motherboard, Ryzen 7 1700, Corsair Vengeance LED 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory, MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X, Samsung Evo SSD, and Corsair 650 PSU) I was removing the cpu and a bit of thermal compound leaked on to the motherboard CPU socket. How can I clean this up or should I replace the board?

Also, my motherboard was not recognizing the GPU when I tried starting up for the first time, the gpu fans and led lights were on. Is the GPU defective? I had read on the MSI forums that sometimes the MSI X370 BIOS need to be updated before it will recognize certain GPUs.

Thanks for any advice!!

Best,
Casey

 

[CountMike]

Paste you can clean up same way as processor itself. 97% isopropyl alcohol and soft rug just don't soak it too much. As for GPU, see if you can test it somewhere else to make sure it works.

 

[HUMDRUM2000]

also remove your gpu and reinstall it,i had the same issue after bios update

 

[Seanie280672]

Clean the cpu socket as counter Mike said, however with the gpu, I've heard various different problems and solutions, some say it's not quite mounted in the slot fully, however, also one guy was using hdmi cable, couldn't get it to display on his monitor, changed it for a vga or dvi cable, I forget which one now and it fired straight up.

 

[CountMike]

Clean the cpu socket as counter Mike said, however with the gpu, I've heard various different problems and solutions, some say it's not quite mounted in the slot fully, however, also one guy was using hdmi cable, couldn't get it to display on his monitor, changed it for a vga or dvi cable, I forget which one now and it fired straight up.

Yes. some GPUs have a default output port so all of them should be tried if one doesn't display.