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Fixed: Heat Sink + CPU stuck together

Anyone got any idea's on how to remove a heat sink from the processor.

The processors a intel core 2 duo, so it's locked to the motherboard and the latch is under the heat sink.

I've tried a thin wire, twisting, and using boinc for an hour to heat the processor up.  All failed.

The case is a shuttle SD37P2, so it's really small, and cramped so can't get in to do much.

Will try a hair dryer tomorrow, and if all fails will have to live with the E6400, and stick the E8200 into the new mail server

UPDATE [8pm 15/3/8]:  Managed to get it unstuck.  Played Crysis for 3 hours and twisted.  That did the job.  Turns out that my motherboard doesn't support the E8200 processor, so it's going back.

O well.  The server will have to have a cheap Core 2 Duo.


Posted Mar 14 2008, 08:08 PM by Nick