<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div>Modern cpus all have heat shields on them so I'd be more worried about he pins than the die. Have you tried rotating the cpu/heatsink in opposite directions (like you were unscrewing it)? That's usually all i've had to do to get them unstuck, even when I've managed to pull the cpu out of the locked zif socket.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Dennis<br></div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra"><div id="1"><div><br></div><div>---- On Thu, 07 Jul 2016 22:30:35 -0400 <b>Star <nhstar@gmail.com></b>wrote ---- <br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px"><div><div>I've used the dental-floss trick, well, actually, thin fishing line. It worked well enough without the alcohol, it was just a slow, steady process.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:06 PM Joshua Judson Rosen <<a href="mailto:rozzin@hackerposse.com" target="_blank">rozzin@hackerposse.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div id="zmail_block"><br></div></div><div>_______________________________________________ <br></div><div>gnhlug-discuss mailing list <br></div><div><a href="mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org" target="_blank">gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org</a> <br></div><div><a href="http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/" target="_blank">http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/</a> <br></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left: 1.0px rgb(204,204,204) solid;padding-left: 1.0ex;"><div>Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it onto<br></div><div> until I found something better (in retrospect, that was probably silly...).<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Finally found a better motherboard, and am now reminde that<br></div><div> (a) now I need to get the heatsink off of the CPU in order<br></div><div> to transfer the CPU between the ZIF sockets (since the socket lever<br></div><div> is covered by the heatsink), and (b) baked thermal paste is<br></div><div> a remarkably good adhesive.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Somewhat surprisingly..., the CPU is out of the original socket<br></div><div> at this point--it popped out while I was fiddling with the heatsink.<br></div><div> I'm going on the assumption that nothing got broken in the process,<br></div><div> for the time being....<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Any suggestions on what the right course of action is, here?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Wikihow advises to soak the CPU+heatsink assembly in isopropanol<br></div><div> and then slicing them apart with dental floss.....<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> --<br></div><div> "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."<br></div><div> _______________________________________________<br></div><div> gnhlug-discuss mailing list<br></div><div> <a href="mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org" target="_blank">gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org</a><br></div><div> <a href="http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/" target="_blank">http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/</a><br></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>