How do you remove a northbridge heat sink?

[Pathogen03]

http://www.sweclockers.com/html/recension/5_nforce2-moderkort/nf7s2.0_stor.jpg

Hey, im about to do a quick operation as my north bridge fan died about 2 weeks ago and since then ive had intermittent reboots (I removed the fan, left the heatsink) so I bought an aftermarket solution (Vantec Iceberq).

It looks like the pegs go through the motherboard (NF7-S Rev 2.0)



http://www.ixbt.com/mainboard/images/nforce2-roundup/nf7-s-board.jpg


Is this just a twist and remove job?

Any tips? Just dont want to break this, and ive never messed with a northbridge cooler.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Flip the board over. Pinch the ends of the pegs, pull heatsink off.

 

[Pathogen03]

you positive I have to remove the board? Im trying very hard to not have to do this by removing the motherboard, as I know if I do, SOMETHING is getting broken.

 

[kirbymixmasta]

You cant pinch the pegs while the motherboard is on. It's not that hard to remove / replace a mobo.

 

[Pathogen03]

It is when for your case you have to unplug everything from the power supply to remove the drive cages to be able to lift the motherboard out of the case, not to mention I have a tornado on a massive copper heatsink so even lifting the board out of the case with that still on is dangerous.

I would have to remove HDD, Disk drives, and a fan completely from the PC

Thats why im just hoping its a twist to unlock peg rather than a pinch from the other side.

 

[imported_Kensai]

The Peg looks kinda like so:


T (top of peg)
==============+========== (motherboard
V

It's easiest to remove with the board out of the case. It's probably possible to remove it while the board is mounted but it's not suggest and I don't know of any way to do it .

 

[Pathogen03]

Alright then I guess I have to remove it.. Ive moved since ive last messed with my computer, so I will have to find my tiny screwdriver set

 

[Pathogen03]

Seemed to work, fan spinning properly and such.. except I rebooted and 5 minutes later the computer froze.. also everything seems much darker, and much more contrast.. could removing the video card have done that?

 

[imported_Kensai]

It shouldn't of unless it wasn't replaces properly. Make sure all your connections are tight and properly fitted.

 

[Jeff7]

Just one of those things you gotta do. Sure you can try ripping the pegs straight out, but that'll wreck them, and very possibly destroy the motherboard too. Not worth it.

 

[DVad3r]

I ripped my Asus SLI Deluxe heatsink right out Ahh that was a good day indeed. I smashed it to tiny little pieces afterwards.

 

[Spike]

I left my NF7-S in place when I removed the northbridge fan. I just cut them out and left the bottoms to fall around inside the case (don't really care about some small pieces that are non-conductive). I then replaced it with a passive Zalman cooler and I was good to go. Total time was less than 10 min.

-spike