920 DO with no IHS

Friend of mine lapped his cpu, then he said he washed it down with 99% rubbing alcohol. When seating the waterblock the IHS pop'd off.
Now I know the story is fishy at best but this is not the concern, can the clown run the chip with the IHS removed or is it new chip time and I get a fancy keychain.

He says the rig will post so the chip is not totally fubared but the mounting pressure will be the key to sucess, what do you guys think?

Put some pads in the corners or something so the core doesn't get crushed or chipped, and you're good to go

thats what I thought any thoughts on what to use for pads?

I think they used to use those little rubber stick on dots back in the day on the socket A chips. Like the ones you put on the bottom of stuff to keep it from scratching surfaces.

Couldn't you use thermal pads? Like the ones from GPUs.