An update ... On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:12 AM, sudheer k Muhammed <sudheerkmuham...@gmail.com> wrote: > this wiki how may be useful..... > > > http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-a-Processor-Fused-to-a-Heatsink > > as people have pointed out > > alcohol is used but it is not the one which is drank... > > its iso propyl alcohol ... electronics guys may remember this solution used > to clean PCBs and evaporates in a miniute....
Thanks to many all with helpful suggestions. The common thread was to use Isopropyl alcohol. The following link < http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-a-Processor-Fused-to-a-Heatsink> suggested the isopropyl alcohol + heat gun method. I tried the heat gun method first with care it did not work. Then I switched to the alcohol method. I kept the CPU + headsink submerged in "clinical spirit" (mostly isopropyl alcohol) for close to 16 hours. I was hoping this would loosen the paste using the dental floss method but no success! The paste had spread to all the edges + corner and I am not getting any gap to stick the floss in it. On newegg.com, I read another user had similar problems with an AMD cpu. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
