peter
Sun Jun 22 16:12:28 PDT 2008
Well then you need to find a way to warm it up a little to make it pliable..
without damaging anything.
Using one of those one sided Razor blades I am told will work with patience
and care.
good luck kid
peter
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"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I understand what your saying, turn on the PC and get it hot and then
> remove
> it. The PC is almost dead, but forget the darn lever. The CPU chip is out,
> stuck onto the bottom of the heat sink. The thermal paste or arctic silver
> must've stuck the two together like cement. This heatsink hasn't been
> removed
> for, since the Dell 8300 came to me stock from the factory, about 4 years
> ago. It's off now, I mean the heatsink and CPU chip. Now the problem is
> getting the CPU chip off of the heatsink. Forget the lever arm, that's a
> moot
> point now. The chip is intact, I can see the prongs on the bottom of the
> CPU
> chip and they look fine. I was wondering about when I pulled off the
> heatsink
> that it would damage the chip because the lever arm was in the locked
> position and the chip stuck to the bottom of the heatsink. As I can see
> now,
> no it's not damaged.
> There has got to be a way of getting the chip off of the heatsink other
> than firing up the PC again. I don't think that will work to tell you the
> truth. Like I said before, they have been stuck together for 4 years.
> Firing
> up the PC and getting it hot or warm again isn't going to get it off, in
> my
> opinion. I don't want to go through that hassle again.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> attilathehun1
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> attilathehun1
>
>
> "peter" wrote:
>
>> Happened to me on an AMD chip...I released the arm..and inserted the
>> Chip.heatsink and all back in..pushed the arm back down.
>> Then I turned the system on to heat up the Thermal Compound....shut down
>> and
>> gave the heatsink a little twist after
>> releasing the holding mechanism and the heat sink came away from the chip
>> quite easily then.
>> peter
>>
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>> "Meebers" <justme@idontkno.com> wrote in message
>> news:OlE4UJA1IHA.4164@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> > I have had that happen to me also. My release arm is under the heat
>> > sink
>> > and therefore impossible to release. I was able to gently remove the
>> > cpu
>> > from the heatsink once removed, raise the arm and inserted my newer CPU
>> > and heatsink.
>> >
>> > "attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> > message
>> > news:F097E588-3132-4703-969E-57DC5ED92AB3@microsoft.com...
>> >> I just took off my heat sink and the CPU chip is stuck to the heatsink
>> >> and
>> >> it came off without pulling up the level that holds the CPU chip in
>> >> place.
>> >> You know when you place a CPU chip into the socket you have to lift
>> >> the
>> >> socket arm up 90 degrees and then place the chip in and snap the lever
>> >> down.
>> >> Well this came out and the lever, of course was still in the locked
>> >> position.
>> >> Is this a problem too? How do I separate the CPU chip from the
>> >> heatsink?
>> >> Take
>> >> a razor blade and pry it off?
>> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> >> Thanks, attilathehun1
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>> >
>> >