[COLUG] Motherboard Question

[Chad A. Wilson]

Generally speaking, the ziff sockets are firmly attached to the 
motherboard.  However, if you have the four post mounting holes, you 
could always get an aftermarket heatsink and mount it with their hardware.

Chad

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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