Bent Pins and CPU stuck on Heatsink

[Cook1]

OK, so this cpu I bought came with a mobo/heatsink. The Mobo was damaged during shipment, and my new one just came in today. So I take off the XP-120 and there's two things...first the CPU is stuck on the heatsink itself, secondly there are TONS of bent pins, and when I say bent I mean they are laying flat against the cpu itself. How do you resolve both these probs?

 

[tungtung]

You can carefully use a tweezer to carefully straighten out the bent pins.
From the old days of 486's as long as you do it carefully I don't think you will break them too easily. (Not 100% sure about the new CPU's though).
As for the stuck heatsink ... that could be a messy thing to remove ... if it's stuck with adhesive, then I don't think you can't remove it safely, especially if I understood correctly that the XP-120 is the AMD Athlon XP chip ... cause those AMD chips does not have a metal heat spreader on top of it (similar to that of the Athlon 64 or Intel P4).
If it is adhesive, you might be able to use solvents to well dissolve the adhesive (assuming it is possible) ... though I don't know how safe it is to use.

 

[Cook1]

Going over the pins...every single one is bent to some extent...

Someone please kill me now.

 

[Cook1]

Well one of the pins broke off, does that mean I'm SOL?

 

[HKSturboKID]

Yes.

 

[spunducky]

try getting an automatic pencil and taking the lead out u can place it over the pins and move it around carefully

 

[brxndxn]

Originally posted by: Cook1
Well one of the pins broke off, does that mean I'm SOL?

No, but you might as well be. I've soldered pins back onto motherboards and even a sound card once. But, it is a horrible bitch that will take a ton of time. A new processor will probby be a smaller opportunity cost.