[COLUG] Motherboard Question

[Jim Dinan]

Hi Matt,

You can usually replace the heatsink bracket on socket 754 motherboards
if this is the part you need:

http://i11.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/90/64/dd29_1.JPG

I've seen them at microcenter before, usually something like $5.  :)

 ~Jim.

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
> 
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