Last night my CPU temps were skyrocketing so I thougt I would redo my thermal compund. I orginally installed it with the stock heatsink, fan and thermal pad.
Anyway, I tried to remove the heatsink and fan and in doing so, I pulled the chip out of the socket and ended up bending some pins.
This was the result of it being incredably difficult to remove the heatsink and fan from the retaining clip and that the processor was litterly glued to the heatsink. Should this be happening with stock heatsink, fan and thermal pad?
I had an over clock from 3.2 to 3.57. My mobo is an IS7-G.
I ended up ordering a new 3.4c and it should be here tomorrow, but in the mean time I tried gently bending the pins back in place. Luckily, they weren't bent too bad, and chip fit back into the socket without any hesitation. I fired it up without any problems. But how do I prevent this from happening again?
My question is this:
Is there a trick to removing the heatsink and fan from the retaining clip without ripping the chip out of the socket? They go in pretty easily...I do the back and then the front. But getting it out is nearly impossible.
I have sliced up my fingers nicely trying to remove it by undoing the back and then the front clips. I must be missing something, as it took nearly 30 minutes to wrestle it free and I almost ruined the processor in the process.
I have medium sized hands and I'm very carful so I'm thinking it has to do with the way the mobo and case are positioned that makes it so difficult.
Any ideas?
Anyway, I tried to remove the heatsink and fan and in doing so, I pulled the chip out of the socket and ended up bending some pins.
This was the result of it being incredably difficult to remove the heatsink and fan from the retaining clip and that the processor was litterly glued to the heatsink. Should this be happening with stock heatsink, fan and thermal pad?
I had an over clock from 3.2 to 3.57. My mobo is an IS7-G.
I ended up ordering a new 3.4c and it should be here tomorrow, but in the mean time I tried gently bending the pins back in place. Luckily, they weren't bent too bad, and chip fit back into the socket without any hesitation. I fired it up without any problems. But how do I prevent this from happening again?
My question is this:
Is there a trick to removing the heatsink and fan from the retaining clip without ripping the chip out of the socket? They go in pretty easily...I do the back and then the front. But getting it out is nearly impossible.
I have sliced up my fingers nicely trying to remove it by undoing the back and then the front clips. I must be missing something, as it took nearly 30 minutes to wrestle it free and I almost ruined the processor in the process.
I have medium sized hands and I'm very carful so I'm thinking it has to do with the way the mobo and case are positioned that makes it so difficult.
Any ideas?
) and run it between the heat sink and the cpu. This is the way I always do it!
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