On 07/07/2016 10:42 PM, dennis wrote: > Modern cpus all have heat shields on them so I'd be more worried > about he pins than the die. Have you tried rotating the cpu/heatsink > in opposite directions (like you were unscrewing it)? That's usually > all i've had to do to get them unstuck, even when I've managed to > pull the cpu out of the locked zif socket.
Yeah--it's *stuck*. Maybe if I still had it locked in the socket, and/or if I'd been running it beforehand and still had it hot..., though the whole idea of holding the CPU by the pins, using the motherboard to apply leverage... actually kind-of freaks me out.... Maybe I'm getting old-- bought a nice SSD along with the new motherboard, and can't just enjoy the new tech for the sake of new tech--I have to worry myself about things like the lack of powerfail caps.... I don't know what difference it makes, but this is something like 3 years old (I think I got it at the last computer show that NC Shows did in NH before they finally stopped doing computer shows), and it was whatever sort of thermal stuff AMD pre-applied to the heatsink..., which I seem to remember being surprisingly solid out of the box. I guess un-waxed un-flavoured dental floss and a new container of thermal paste are on my shopping list for tomorrow. I'm assuming mint-flavoured wax is not something I want to get in the mix.... > ---- On Thu, 07 Jul 2016 22:30:35 -0400 *Star <nhs...@gmail.com>*wrote ---- > > I've used the dental-floss trick, well, actually, thin fishing line. It > worked well enough without the alcohol, it was just a slow, steady process. > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:06 PM Joshua Judson Rosen > <roz...@hackerposse.com <mailto:roz...@hackerposse.com>> wrote: > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org <mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org> > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it > onto > until I found something better (in retrospect, that was probably > silly...). > > Finally found a better motherboard, and am now reminde that > (a) now I need to get the heatsink off of the CPU in order > to transfer the CPU between the ZIF sockets (since the socket lever > is covered by the heatsink), and (b) baked thermal paste is > a remarkably good adhesive. > > Somewhat surprisingly..., the CPU is out of the original socket > at this point--it popped out while I was fiddling with the heatsink. > I'm going on the assumption that nothing got broken in the process, > for the time being.... > > Any suggestions on what the right course of action is, here? > > Wikihow advises to soak the CPU+heatsink assembly in isopropanol > and then slicing them apart with dental floss..... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/