Advice on removing the backing plate on the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum??

FearTec · Sep 17, 2004

Hello

I am looking for advice on how to remove the backing plate on the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum??

It appears to be stuck on with a heap of glue?

Has anyone any tips on how I can do this? I have a Thermalright SLK 948U heatsink I want to put onto the mobo but can't remove the backing plate

Thanks In Advance

WejRepus · Sep 17, 2004

most people have had the best luck with using a hair dryer to melt the glue

Gongo56 · Sep 17, 2004

hair dryer.. heat it until you can start to gently pry the plate off. dont over heat

LiquidOz · Sep 20, 2004

I have a neo k8n platinum and was surprised how easy it was to remove the backplate just by heating it up a little with a hairdryer..

Basically I was able to pry it off the board with my fingers very carefully.. Once you get a loose edge then the rest just slowly pops off..

FearTec · Sep 20, 2004

Thanks LiquidOz

It sounds simple then, I will give it a go.

What Heatsink do you have on your Platinum?

LiquidOz · Sep 20, 2004

I have the Zalman 7000a-CU..

Calculusaurus · Sep 20, 2004

I had a difficult time removing my backplate for a zalman 7000a al-cu. I used a hair dryer and it still took me 30 minutes of heating just to pry it off. Over at the MSI boards, it seems that maybe half of the people have an easy time prying it off, and the other half experience a bit more difficulty. I actually heated the backplate up quite a bit but the system has been running flawlessly for 3 months since I did it.

FearTec · Sep 21, 2004

I have managed to get the backplate off my MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum mainboard.

It appeared to be stuck on with heaps of glue but after only 30 seconds of light heating with a hair dryer the back plate popped off.

I have a pictrue of CPU the Heatsink backplate (taken with my Webcam camera http://simon.fearby.com/webcam) showing the area of the backplate that was actually stuck to the mainbaord.

The 95% surface area that was not touching the mainboard was very very adhesive.

Now to install my Thermalright SLK 948U Copper Heatsink

Simon

DSM4Life · Jan 2, 2005

why would you want to remove that back plate ??? are you suppose to keep it off ?

i am putting one together and left it on there and have the stocker heatsink right now

=ACID RAIN= · Jan 3, 2005

It's just for third party heatsinks. For a stock heatsink, it's fine.

trueplaya4ever8 · Jan 3, 2005

Hmm, so this has to be removed eh? Well good to kno now, then later.

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