URGENT help with removing Scythe Ninja Plus heatsink attachment

Craig321 · 18 Sep 2006 at 16:23

wizardmaxx said:
Have you tried the solvent method yet ?

No, I don't really get how to do it that way >.<

wizardmaxx · 18 Sep 2006 at 16:32

I took it off another forum, but i imagine you get a petrolium based solvent and apply a little (say using an earbud) to the areas where it is stuck down. let it soak for a few minutes. use dental floss to get the corners seperated. then use a really long piece of dental floss wrapped around the back of the board. wind up either end of the dental floss around two screwdrivers and ' cut the plate away from the motherboard' .

Seems simple enough.

squiffy · 18 Sep 2006 at 16:33

That'll damage the PCB. I would just use a hairdryer and heat up the pad/metal X

benjo plz. · 18 Sep 2006 at 16:41

squiffy said:
That'll damage the PCB. I would just use a hairdryer and heat up the pad/metal X

As long as it's not noticably evident it probably doesn't matter tbh.

Slinwagh · 18 Sep 2006 at 16:54

Phnom_Penh said:
Glue? :\

Sticky pad is what i meant.

pcoltrane · 18 Sep 2006 at 17:30

Don't try to remove it! My friend did something similar to the dental floss idea when he had to return his board and managed to knock off one of the tiny resistors.

When i returned my asus board, I just left the ninja backplate on. It caused no problem with the RMA. I then emailed scythe who send me a new backplate within 2 days. Thats what i call service!

Marc

Craig321 · 18 Sep 2006 at 17:59

marc mercer said:
Don't try to remove it! My friend did something similar to the dental floss idea when he had to return his board and managed to knock off one of the tiny resistors.

When i returned my asus board, I just left the ninja backplate on. It caused no problem with the RMA. I then emailed scythe who send me a new backplate within 2 days. Thats what i call service!

Marc

Did you send it back to Overclockers and it was fine with the backplate on?

wizardmaxx · 18 Sep 2006 at 18:04

marc mercer said:
Don't try to remove it! My friend did something similar to the dental floss idea when he had to return his board and managed to knock off one of the tiny resistors.

When i returned my asus board, I just left the ninja backplate on. It caused no problem with the RMA. I then emailed scythe who send me a new backplate within 2 days. Thats what i call service!

Marc

If thats the backup service you going to get then definetly the way to go.

Craig321 · 18 Sep 2006 at 18:28

Scythe just sent me an email back saying that I should get it off with a hair dryer and then pull (as you guys suggested at first) which I did for a while but gave up.

Am going to send back to Overclockers with the backplate on, Scythe have said they'll send me a new backplate so I'm happy with their service (email reply in < than 24 hours).

I have now learnt my lesson to use my head more with stuff like that (should have left the covering on the backplate so I could easily get it off).

Thanks for the help everyone

Craig.

Hades · 18 Sep 2006 at 18:38

You did use thermal paste rather than thermal epoxy??????????

TaKeN · 18 Sep 2006 at 18:52

No, The Scythe Ninja comes with a metal backplate for the back of the mobo,

Unfortunately it comes with a stupid tacky foam pad, which is almost impossible to remove

Craig321 · 18 Sep 2006 at 19:55

Hades said:
You did use thermal paste rather than thermal epoxy??????????

They supplied a backplate with STUPID HORRIBLE sticky stuff that's extremely hard to get off