[COLUG] Motherboard Question

[Matthew Gardlik]

No luck at Microcenter, but I found a few places online that I can order 
the part from.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.  It's 
tough to search Google when you don't know the name of what to search for.

Thanks,

Matt

Jim Dinan wrote:
> 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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