thank god amds are built tuff

i almost f**ked up my bros amd 64 x2 3800+... me being me i had to check out his computer while he wasn't here. so i decided to see what kind of thermal paste/pad he has if any, he got it prebuilt. i'm trying to pull it off but it wouldn't move. so with a bit more force it pulled up a bit and it sounded like sticky tape or something so i proceed to completely pull it off and OMFG!!! there is no dam cpu when i lifted it there... ************ufckufkc... i look at the back of the heat sink and its there... i ripped it right out of the dam socket! so got a screw driver and poped off the cpu and it was fine i reinstalled and booted it up and its fine... jesus christ i will never do that again LESSON LEARNED! if one of the pins were to break would it boot?

If a single pin broke it would be dead. Even if a pin got bent it may not work. You got lucky.

Yeah... that would have royally sucked if it had died. Lesson learned, eh? That's the thing most people don't do (and I don't think anybody here is among those that are less intelligent), they ignore the lesson, and do it again. Hmm... I wonder what happens when I stick a fork in the power outlet... Ow! Crap! That hurt... *two days (or minutes, whichever you prefer) later* I wonder if it still does that when I stick a fork in the power outlet. You can guess what happens. :D

You should have ran the comp for 20 mins to warm up the thermal pad ;) nothing scarier than seeing those little gold pins sticking out the bottom of a heatsink. You can always straighten out the pins using a credit card or equivalent plastic.

I've actually done that plenty of times, with the same processor. Yes, thank god AMD's are built tough. :up:

yeah, it happened to me also, only i have a socket 478 P4, when i first dismantled the computer to clean it, after 3 or 4 months, i tried every trick I knew, hair drier, rotating the heatsink a bit, nothing worked, basically there was no way i could get it off except puling the whole thing out

the thing i noticed is that the socket ,at least the type i have, does not develop a lot of grip, it didn't take much force to pull it straight off !

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Originally Posted by GT40_GearHead

the thing i noticed is that the socket ,at least the type i have, does not develop a lot of grip, it didn't take much force to pull it straight off !

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ya on my brothers it didn't seem to have much bite, at least not what i would expect.

man i know what was in your head that second... ! lol

i can still remember the cold sweat on my back

I believe the same thing happened to Dave.

You're a seriously lucky sonofabitch!

Fair play, like GT40 said, I know exactly what went through your body (not just your head) at that instant!