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Ripped AMD Chip out of socket!

NinjaMaestro

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Last night I built a Q6600 Rig. I converted my old AMD set up to the intel. After I removed my motherboard I decided to have a look at the old AMD so I unlatched the heatsink and pulled it off. There was a little struggle and it came free; not too much of a struggle though... just a tad bit of resistance. When I flipped the hs over I noticed that during the removal process I had ripped the chip right out of the socket. It was stuck to the bottom of my hs by the crappy thermal paste that came with my thermaltake fan/hs.

I freaked! But I tried to remain calm. My buddy and I tried everything to get the chip off. We tried prying it off, but was afraid it would damage the chip. Tried chiseling at it. All to no avail.

Bright Idea! I held a flame to the heatsink as far from the chip as I could, and put a little twisting pressure on the chip. Five seconds later the thermal paste loosed and the chip came off very easily.

If this ever happens to you just try what I did. It may seem like common sense to some folk, but after I did it my buddy seemed very impressed and he's pretty knowledgable when it comes to the cpu realm. So, take it or leave it but let me know if this helps anyone out. ;)
 
Thanks for the suggestion, this seems to happen remarkably often.

Next time just twist the heatsink back and forth slightly before lifting it off the socket, and you'll be golden

Needless to say the 775 chip wont have this problem.
 
LOL first time this happens to everyone they "freak" as you put it, best way to warm them up to soften the heatsink compound is run prime for a few mins, works for me anyway.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
like jon says just twist and you should not have this problem when removing.
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The thermaltake fan I was removing from my am2 is rediculously stupid and the clip thing.... there's no other way. It's not like I didn't give 'er a little twist but the way the mounting bracket for those amd chips is hinders your movements. Oh well. No harm done.

I didn't bend any of the pins or anything either. That's why I "freaked" thinking that maybe instead of bending the pins that maybe I had ripped the pins out of the bottom of the chip or ripped the pin hole guts or something out of the socket.

I'm very pleased with my new intel setup. The gate that closes over the chip is very nice.

On second thought: I had recently read up on lapping. I can see the bottom of my old hs is very rough. I mean it was only 20 USD. Maybe that's why it adhered to the chip so hard. Probably be a pretty good heatsink if the bottom was smooth. Just like when you're using modeling clay and you're going to adjoin two pieces, you're supposed to "score" the surface. That's the way the bottom of this hs was: scored.
 
use very fine wet and Dry sandpaper...use wet, stick it to a very flat surface...Formica! move the cooler over it without rocking it...move it slowly back and forth for about 15 mins.

tip........DO NOT ROCK THE COOLER....whilst sanding, keep wet and dry....soaking wet.
 
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u should have had the system running for about 10min to heat up the peste then turn off the system then do afew little twists on the hsf then the hsf would have came off with easy
 
gareth170 said:
u should have had the system running for about 10min to heat up the peste then turn off the system then do afew little twists on the hsf then the hsf would have came off with easy
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Hindsight is 20/20. But if the mistake ever happens to someone else, and they just rip their chip out then they'll know how to remove it if they read this thread.

Emlyn Dewar takes the gold though. The Hair Dryer would definately be more safety friendly.... had you ripped your chip out already :)
 
i read last night about lapping the CPU as well :eek::eek:

this seems a bit foolish to me, not only does it void the warranty... but water getting in/ bending the pins is a very real worry...you'd have to be bloody careful.

lapping both the cooler and CPU can drop temperatures by as much as 12 degrees, so it might be worth doing
 
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You dont have to keep the wet'n'dry wet, can be used dry, but you will get thru more sheets.

I wouldn't use wet paper for a cpu tbh, not that i bother with lapping anymore, the gains are marginal (1-2 degrees) at best unless both are way out.
 
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