Any trick to removing a stock haswell cooler

[technoveg]

Building a new rig and I have to RMA the motherboard, but I can't get the damned pushpins out on the stock intel cooler. Any sage advice so I don't break this thing even further?

 

[Aikouka]

If I remember correctly, all you do is turn the pegs to unlock them and then pull them out. ...or they just pop out. It should come out pretty easily.

 

[technoveg]

No dice... As I said before, they are stuck. This is turning into an awful morning...

 

[aigomorla]

pull the board out..

u dont need to remove the stock heat sink to get the board out.

then invert the board, get a screw driver or a chopstick if ur asian, and poke the pushpins out from the bottom.

 

[Aikouka]

pull the board out..

If your case doesn't have a motherboard cut-out.

 

[balloonshark]

Maybe something in these vids will help. Just be a little more gentle with your mb than the guy in the 2nd vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2QmOYjR4x8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PyU00K1sKw

skip to 1:18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foB7WJYXI60

 

[Kenmitch]

Probably melted on anyways

I've never seen push pins give a person trouble. Possibly they're melted too!