[COLUG] Motherboard Question

[Matthew Gardlik]

I guess that is kind of what the tooth looks like, but the piece it 
broke off of is the square piece of plastic that surrounds the cpu that 
you attach the heat sink and fan to.

I doubt that it is replaceable.  I think I may just have to upgrade the 
motherboard/cpu.

Paul Williams wrote:
> 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:
> 
> /\
> ||
> __
> 
> You can replace it. I don't know where to get one, though. Sorry for my
> awful ASCII drawings.
> 
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