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Old Sep 28, 2012, 03:05 AM   #21896
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Originally Posted by Krazy Owl View Post
Same thing happened to me with a socket 478. The paste was so strong that it came off with the heatsink and broke a cpu pin inside the pin socket. No way to se it then i installed back the cpu and it blowed the board.
If you ever come across a heatsink that refuses to budge, run the IBT for a few minutes and then turn off the PC to try again.




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