[COLUG] Motherboard Question

[Paul Williams]

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 10:31 -0700, matt at mattgardlik.com wrote:
> My computer had recently been shutting itself off due to the CPU
> overheating.  So, today, I cleaned the inside which was pretty dusty, and
> took off the CPU fan to clean the dust out of the heat sink.  When putting
> the heat sink back on, I accidentally broke off one of the plastic
> mounting teeth that holds the heat sink to the motherboard.  It's a year
> or two old socket 754 AMD64 motherboard.
> 
> Is it possible to replace this plastic mounting piece on the motherboard,
> or did I just ruin an otherwise perfectly good motherboard?
> 
> Matt
> 
If it's one of the things shaped like this:

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You can replace it. I don't know where to get one, though. Sorry for my
awful ASCII drawings.


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