AMD 64 socket 754 prob

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My Motherboard AGP slot is acting up so I am sending the board back to
newegg to RMA it but here is my problem.. BTW its a AMD 64 3000+ retail and
well the CPU is stuck to the heat sink anyway to get it off? lol

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lol yeah its out of the socket for sure kind of just came out when I tried
to take off the heat sink lol but the lock was on so I am not sure how it
came out ...




"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:12:32 -0500, George Macdonald
> <fammacd=!SPAM^nothanks@tellurian.com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:50:51 -0500, Tony Hill <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Thermal compound acts like quite a glue when it's cold, making it very
>>>difficult to separate the processor from the heatsink. However once
>>>it heats up it becomes more of a liquid and allows the heatsink the
>>>move around much more freely. In order to actually remove the
>>>heatsink, once it's nice and warm, it's usually easiest to slid the
>>>processor off to the side rather than trying to just pry them apart.
>>
>>Sliding to the side is kinda difficult with the A64 retention mechanism.
>>I
>>haven't tried to separate one yet but I thought the TIM was just a paste
>>on
>>the A64s... IOW not a phase change material. I guess heat might help
>>anyway and I wonder if taking the screws out of the retention frame might
>>allow a bit more movement.
>
> LOL! I was kind of going on the assumption that the original poster
> had already removed the screws! Actually my understanding of it was
> that he had removed both processor and heatsink from the motherboard
> altogether.
>
> As for the paste vs. phase change, yes heat definitely does help with
> removing a heatsink stuck on with paste. It's not always necessary
> like it tends to be with the old pink pads, but it can be.
>
> -------------
> Tony Hill
> hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca

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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:12:32 -0500, George Macdonald
<fammacd=!SPAM^nothanks@tellurian.com> wrote:


>Sliding to the side is kinda difficult with the A64 retention mechanism. I
>haven't tried to separate one yet but I thought the TIM was just a paste on
>the A64s... IOW not a phase change material. I guess heat might help
>anyway and I wonder if taking the screws out of the retention frame might
>allow a bit more movement.


Indeed I removed my A64 to move it to a new board and when I removed
the heatsing from the surrounding mechanism it with drew the processor
from the socket even though the lock arm was engaged fully I was a bit
worried until the processor booted fine when in the new board. Made a
note to self that the next time I remove it it will be after it has
been running for some time and has at least a modicum of warmth in it.