For those who were following and assisting the *EMERGENCY* build problem.

Steven Vollom stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net
Sat Nov 15 18:12:45 UTC 2008


Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2008, Jonas Norlander wrote:
>   
>> No i have never seen that. Some times the thermal paste would make it
>> stuck some but never so much that it will pull a "locked" CPU out of
>> the socket. Can't think of any suggestions right now. Sorry.
>>     
>
> Aren't they using a 'thermal tape' these days?  Sticky on both sides to tape 
> the heat sink to the cpu.   But I wouldn't think it would be that strong.
>   
The bond is so great, I am concerned about breaking the processor 
lifting from a corner or releasing the bottom.  Strangely enough the 
exposed pins of the processor are undamaged and perfectly in place.





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