Sticky Processor!

[Hellcat]

Having motherboard trouble so need to return it to the retailer... had to remove the processor... unclipped and pulled up.

Off it came, but where is the processor!? Empty zif socket...



Processor is stuck fast to the bottom of the heatsink. :bang:


Took a lot of heating with a hairdryer (wives can be useful sometimes) and pushing to eventually free the CPU from the heatsink. Stoopid OEM heat paste. Usually use Arctic Silver but didn't have any so used what came with the CPU/Heatsink. Never again.​

 

[Eklipze3k]

Seen that before - I built a pseudo media center box many moons ago, with one of those bundled mobo/cpu/cooler jobs and the whole thing was glued together. Ridiculous

 

[ChrisUK]

I feel your pain hellcat .

Could be worse could be a intel bundled Heatsink that warps the mobo too!

 

[306maxi]

Having motherboard trouble so need to return it to the retailer... had to remove the processor... unclipped and pulled up.

Off it came, but where is the processor!? Empty zif socket...



Processor is stuck fast to the bottom of the heatsink. :bang:


Took a lot of heating with a hairdryer (wives can be useful sometimes) and pushing to eventually free the CPU from the heatsink. Stoopid OEM heat paste. Usually use Arctic Silver but didn't have any so used what came with the CPU/Heatsink. Never again.​

Whenever I remove a CPU I make sure I've run the PC for a bit with a few instances of Prime95 to really heat it up. Not such a problem with socket 775 but I pulled the CPU out of the socket plenty of times on my S478 system when I was using one of these.....

Not cool......

 

[Hellcat]

Difficult to run anything with a deal mobo.

 

[Focus Owner]

from ccl?
i got a good amount of what i think is artic silver heating paste if you want me to leave you the paste neer cccl hidden in a bush etc

 

[Hellcat]

Afraid I won't be visiting the theatre of dreams - just sending a dead motherboard back.