KedarWolf
05-03-04, 04:57 AM
Peace... :)
Be sure to see the important note near the end of this post even if you never broke the plastic heatsink bracket attached to your motherboard. The note applies to any motherboard even without this trouble.
I have an Asus P4C-800 Deluxe Motherboard. Expensive too. The rest on my system specs are at the bottom of this post.
I had to remove my Thermaltake Volcano7+ Heatsink\Fan which is hell to do. Getting CPU temps way to high.
Needed to check the Artic Silver 5 Thermal Paste and reseat it.
Seems the spring clips just are poorly designed.
Without using two hands and a flathead screwdriver in one of them, no matter how far you squeeze the spring clips inward that attach to that plastic heatsink bracket attached to the motherboard, without added help from a screwdriver, won't unclip.
So...
I was trying to get a second spring clip undone. With two unhooked, can get the heatsink/fan off easy. Then SNAP!!!!
That plastic heatsink bracket post where the metal spring clip attaches to snapped completely off.
I'm thinking, 'This is not good.' to put it mildly. No PC. No fun. Boring Life, etc. How exactly am I going to fix this?
But...
I think, 'Hmmm, bet all the motherboard heatsink brackets are standard on any P4 motherboard'.
I have an old P4 motherboard I knew I would never use.
So, I take the four screws off it and remove it from my old BCS EliteGroup motherboard. Then I take the broken one off my Asus motherboard. I study both carefully. They are both exactly the same. Note: Two different makes of motherboards too.
Screw the good bracket onto the Asus motherboard, problem solved and on a Sunday where all 'puter hardware stores here are closed.
Might be easy to buy a bracket too though. If not at a PC hardware store then a PC repair place I'm sure could pop one off a dead P4 motherboard for next to nothing.
Important Note: When I unscrewed BOTH heatsink brackets from BOTH motherboards, one screw on each of the motherboards was not tight but loose enough to turn with my fingers. And I do mean a screw was loose on BOTH motherboards. You did check the screws on your plastic heatsink bracket attached to your motherboard, right?
Peace, Kedar... :)
Asus P4C-800 Deluxe MB.
P4 2.8c SL6Z5 with MO steppings
Thermaltake Butterfly Power Supply 480W.
Thermaltake Volcano 7+ heatsink/fan with fan at 6000 RPM always.
Two 512 meg dimms of OCZ Gold Rev. 2 memory.
Asus 9280S (TI-4200) 128 meg 8xAGP video card.
(I know, lousy video card. Will get an Asus 9800XT 256 meg when the prices come down).
Audigy 2 Platinum Sound Card.
BTW, Kedar is pronounced Keh-DAHR, with the emphasis on the -DAHR of course,
not like 'cedar'.
Quote: "I'm glad I have the job I do, otherwise I would have to work for a living" KedarWolf Circa 2003 (I work midnight shift at a live-in men's drug and alcohol rehab. You did bring a book to read I hope). :P
Be sure to see the important note near the end of this post even if you never broke the plastic heatsink bracket attached to your motherboard. The note applies to any motherboard even without this trouble.
I have an Asus P4C-800 Deluxe Motherboard. Expensive too. The rest on my system specs are at the bottom of this post.
I had to remove my Thermaltake Volcano7+ Heatsink\Fan which is hell to do. Getting CPU temps way to high.
Needed to check the Artic Silver 5 Thermal Paste and reseat it.
Seems the spring clips just are poorly designed.
Without using two hands and a flathead screwdriver in one of them, no matter how far you squeeze the spring clips inward that attach to that plastic heatsink bracket attached to the motherboard, without added help from a screwdriver, won't unclip.
So...
I was trying to get a second spring clip undone. With two unhooked, can get the heatsink/fan off easy. Then SNAP!!!!
That plastic heatsink bracket post where the metal spring clip attaches to snapped completely off.
I'm thinking, 'This is not good.' to put it mildly. No PC. No fun. Boring Life, etc. How exactly am I going to fix this?
But...
I think, 'Hmmm, bet all the motherboard heatsink brackets are standard on any P4 motherboard'.
I have an old P4 motherboard I knew I would never use.
So, I take the four screws off it and remove it from my old BCS EliteGroup motherboard. Then I take the broken one off my Asus motherboard. I study both carefully. They are both exactly the same. Note: Two different makes of motherboards too.
Screw the good bracket onto the Asus motherboard, problem solved and on a Sunday where all 'puter hardware stores here are closed.
Might be easy to buy a bracket too though. If not at a PC hardware store then a PC repair place I'm sure could pop one off a dead P4 motherboard for next to nothing.
Important Note: When I unscrewed BOTH heatsink brackets from BOTH motherboards, one screw on each of the motherboards was not tight but loose enough to turn with my fingers. And I do mean a screw was loose on BOTH motherboards. You did check the screws on your plastic heatsink bracket attached to your motherboard, right?
Peace, Kedar... :)
Asus P4C-800 Deluxe MB.
P4 2.8c SL6Z5 with MO steppings
Thermaltake Butterfly Power Supply 480W.
Thermaltake Volcano 7+ heatsink/fan with fan at 6000 RPM always.
Two 512 meg dimms of OCZ Gold Rev. 2 memory.
Asus 9280S (TI-4200) 128 meg 8xAGP video card.
(I know, lousy video card. Will get an Asus 9800XT 256 meg when the prices come down).
Audigy 2 Platinum Sound Card.
BTW, Kedar is pronounced Keh-DAHR, with the emphasis on the -DAHR of course,
not like 'cedar'.
Quote: "I'm glad I have the job I do, otherwise I would have to work for a living" KedarWolf Circa 2003 (I work midnight shift at a live-in men's drug and alcohol rehab. You did bring a book to read I hope). :P