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AMD 64 socket 754 prob
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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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:45:11 -0600, "Anthony"
wrote: 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 Heat it up. If the system will boot up ok, then just run it for 10 or 15 minutes, shut it down and your heatsink will come right off. Otherwise use a hair dried (or paint stripper set to low heat) for a little bit to warm it up. 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. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:50:51 -0500, Tony Hill
wrote: On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:45:11 -0600, "Anthony" wrote: 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 Heat it up. If the system will boot up ok, then just run it for 10 or 15 minutes, shut it down and your heatsink will come right off. Otherwise use a hair dried (or paint stripper set to low heat) for a little bit to warm it up. 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. -- Rgds, George Macdonald |
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:12:32 -0500, George Macdonald
wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:50:51 -0500, Tony Hill 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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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" wrote in message ... On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:12:32 -0500, George Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:50:51 -0500, Tony Hill 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 Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:53:31 -0600, "Anthony"
wrote: 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 ... The "lock" isn't so much a lock as just a mechanism to ensure that it's seated properly. It doesn't hold the processor in very tightly, just tight enough that it won't fall out accidentally. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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