CPU stuck in ZIF socket.

[cdperry]

Hi -

I recently installed and removed a ThermalTake Spark 7 cooler from my Abit IS7 board. When I lifted up the arm of the ZIF socket to get the CPU out, the CPU remained locked in the socket - I can't remove it. Any advice would be much appreciated - thanks!

chris

 

[Shimmishim]

bump, help this man out!

 

[b4u]

Well, back in the old days when I used to install some 486 processors (an huge 486 DX2 66 Mhz blast machine 🙂), there was no zif socket, in the early days, that is.

Sometime it would get harder to get the CPU out, so I CAREFULLY used one of those plates from the back of the computer (the ones you have where no PCI card is installed), and carefully lift a bit from each side, around the processor. That allways got me those hard processors out of the socket.

Just don't lift too much at a time, so you don't break the processor, or bend any pin. Just treat it like a women 😀

Well, those were the old days, anyway ...

(I'm just assuming that the only thing that keeps holding the CPU is the socket itself)


... you can always use an hammer 😀.

 

[DurocShark]

What b4u said. Old skool. 😉

 

[KF]

The only time I heard of this with a ZIF is when they were doing low temp cooling and put vaseline in and under the socket to protect against mosture. Suction made it hard to get out. Or maybe sombody managed to wedge one of the pins outside of the contacts that move and close. Otherwise your ZIF must have broken and stuck closed, it seems to me. You can get the chip out even so. Some people have accidentally done that when the HS to stuck like glue to the CPU due to a thermal pad.

The reason it takes so much force to get out is that there are so many pins. (>400?) The amount of pressure on each pin is not too large.

 

[zephyrprime]

Try just closing and opening the zif arm a bunch of times. Maybe that'll do it. If that doesn't work, maybe tapping the side of the processor would to knock it loose?

 

[Vonkhan]

try gravity 😀

seriously now ... get a razor blade and work ur way up

 

[pspada]

I had to crack the casing by moving the arm all the way open and then removing it. This allowed me to pull up the top plastic section, and slowly work it up until all of the pins were free of the bottom section. Be very careful, you bend pins and it's painful getting them back in line.