Northbridge Fan Fell OFF!!!

[OuiKikUrAzz]

I have a Abit IC7-G Motherboard, my northbridge fan fell off, AGAIN (2nd time). First time I RMA'ed...the reason I think is because my thermalright hsf is so big it is leaning onto the northbridge fan and it's pushing it off of the motherboard...however since the nortibridge fan doesn't use push pins but some other type of hold down (really cheap hold down), that it can esaily be pushed off with enough lasting force.

My question now is should I use thermal epoxy and just stick the fan onto the northbridge forever? I think this is cheaper and faster than RMA'ing the board and getting a new different board.

Suggestions?

 

[Buz2b]

Suggestions?

Smaller HSF setup for it maybe? Yes, you could use some thermal epoxy but be aware that if you do that and then apply side pressure from the CPU HSF, you could damage the Northbridge chip itself. There would be no fan to dislodge so the pressure would be on the chip/MB connecters themselves. Not a good recipe. Maybe you can adapt a smaller fan/heatsink combo with a lower profile to the NB.

 

[Peter D]

Epoxy it

 

[Tetsuo]

I've had that same prob. Epoxy/superglue did the trick