On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 23:24:06 GMT, jerry <a@b.com> wrote:

>from my limited experience P4 have three corner pins, the forth is
>missing and indexes the chip in the socket which obviously doen't have a
>hole, if that makes sense.

Actually the P4 has two pins missing in one corner.

>Without sounding cynical the pins are not that delicate, much the same as
>a PIII and the zero insertion sockets are easy to use. The only way i can
>imagine bending a pin is to try and put the chip in the wrong way.

Or trying to put the chip and heatsink back in together as one
piece, which is what it sounds like they tried to do. Which
means they probably tried to force it into a closed ZIF socket.

For the original poster:

P4 boards have a ZIF socket with a lever that has to be opened to
insert the CPU. The problem is that the lever ends up under the
heatsink, so you can't open the lever and insert the cpu and
heatsink together and then close the lever.

So the only right way to do it is to remove the processor from
the heatsink, clean up the residue left from the thermal tape or
whatever sticky compound was gluing the heatsink and cpu
together, install the CPU in the board using the lever properly,
apply new heat sink compound (use the white stuff and next time
you won't have this problem), and then reinstall the heatsink.

I've used a heat gun to soften the sticky type compounds that
glue the cpu and heatsink together, but it is tricky cause you
have to heat the heatsink without heating the bottom of the
processor too much. The pins are soldered to the bottom of the
P4, and if you let your heat gun blow on the pins too much the
solder will melt and the pins will fall over, and they you really
are screwed.

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