Rear metal plate on ASUS K8V SE Deluxe

Hi,

Before you go too far, what kind of heatsink are you trying to put in? There should be a bracket on the motherboard that fits the standard heatsink and fan. It almost sounds like you are trying to do something wrong here. Please respond before you go too far and cause damage.

Yes, that is the board. It's strange, though, that you don't see one. Is it new? Could it have possibly been removed? After all, that's what I'm trying to do.

I bought my board because my old one (which was the same model) went bad. However, I didn't put the old motherboard in the computer, when it was assembled, so I don't know if it, too, had that metal plate.

The plate doesn't look removable, and is probably designed to fit most heatsinks. I'm using a Thermalight XP-90 heatsink, i think. If the plate isnt removable, it should probably work with my heatsink's screws, but only one of the holes seems to fit my screws. Could this be a defect?