Depends on the 'stock' heat sink. If it's the kind with the metal slips you just shift it so that the tabs slip to the larger holes then it pops off. If it's the kind with the plastic snaps it's a huge pain in the ass. You need a pari of needle nose pliers to pinch the tabs together and then pop it off a corner at a time. Normally I don't have that kind of patients or luck and I end up breaking 1 or two of the tabs.
Does it have one of the heatsink thermal pads on it? There's three trains of thought on removing HS's. #1 Heat it up. Run the system for 5-10 min and then try to remove the HS. Be careful of hot parts. #2 Chemical removal, Alchohol, acetone, goof off, etc. There's quite a few. Soak the chemical around the edges rubbing with a cotton swab, until you can get it to loosen. #3 Cold, Put it in the fridge for 5-10 mins, then try removing the HS. Also, When trying to remove it --You should turn and pull gently. Trying to pull straight up on it makes it harder to loosen. Hope this helps.
its the kind where the fan is on a plastic piece that attaches with 4 snaps over the heatsink to make a windtunnel affect. The one fan is placed in the middle and the air blows into the heatsink and out both sides the long way. I got the fan off no problem, now I have 4 little plasic things sticking up - one I just broke, and these look like they go all the way through to the other side of the card where the plastic says Pentium III and has the little indentation with the sticker. There little "somethings" poke through 4 holes, but not out. I can't fit needle nose pliers into those and have tried pushing at them with all my might with a screwdriver, thinking that I was gonna crack the cpu chip the whole time.
Saw that it was the connectors you were having probs with after I posted. LOl Sorry. And it looks like you have the plastic snaps. They suck. I've dealt with some of those on older boards I had to work on. You just have to fiddle with them until you get them to let loose. Pinching, pushing, pulling. Check them from both sides, sometimes you can see a way to loosen them too.
Whoofta! I got it off, I don't see any cpu cracks yet, *yagga takes deep breaths
I know own a collection of a couple dozen pieces of plastic that flew all over my room, yay, I just no I am gonna step on them one of these days and cut my self.
What I am saying is I just aggressivelly took the pieces off with no will to salvage the existing mounts after it didn't work trying to salvage those parts, and the cpu.
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Ok, now I have a bigger heatsink I got off eBay. It said it was FoxConn and CU, well it says CU but it is only all aluminum! Me mad. It looked the right color in the photo, but not in real life. It also seems pretty cheap, the metal fins folding like an accordian back and forth in 3 rows. But it also is shiny aluminum, all my other heatsinks are duller (like silver, instead of a shiny mirror) and I think resist scratches and cracks more. Is this heatsink possibly worse than other ones?
...I wonder, could I use copper house wire and thermal compound and connect the heatsinks to the case or infront of a fan somehow and make it beneficially worth while? Because as it is I have ZERO fans and my other passive heatsink got mighty hot. My other heatsink has like 1 inch spikes sticking out of it instead of connected "sheet metal"
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I know own a collection of a couple dozen pieces of plastic that flew all over my room, yay, I just no I am gonna step on them one of these days and cut my self.
What I am saying is I just aggressivelly took the pieces off with no will to salvage the existing mounts after it didn't work trying to salvage those parts, and the cpu.
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Ok, now I have a bigger heatsink I got off eBay. It said it was FoxConn and CU, well it says CU but it is only all aluminum! Me mad. It looked the right color in the photo, but not in real life. It also seems pretty cheap, the metal fins folding like an accordian back and forth in 3 rows. But it also is shiny aluminum, all my other heatsinks are duller (like silver, instead of a shiny mirror) and I think resist scratches and cracks more. Is this heatsink possibly worse than other ones?
...I wonder, could I use copper house wire and thermal compound and connect the heatsinks to the case or infront of a fan somehow and make it beneficially worth while? Because as it is I have ZERO fans and my other passive heatsink got mighty hot. My other heatsink has like 1 inch spikes sticking out of it instead of connected "sheet metal"