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"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:
In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I've removed it all including CPU and
cleaned it all up. Will re-assemble after this coffee. ;-)

Whatever I've done has made it worse. It shuts down just after showing the
BIOS page at startup.

Sounds like no contact with heatsink at all.

(If you did that with the really early AMD hammer, you heard
a crack about 2 seconds after switching on, which was the CPU
case cracking in half;-)

Can you get the ZIF leaver up with the heatsink in place?
If so, do that and lift the heatsink off. It should come
off with the chip, as a thin layer of heatsink compound
correctly applied actually takes a bit of pulling apart,
like a rubber sucker.

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Andrew Gabriel
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