"KenO" wrote in message
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Inherited a Dell Dimension 2300 that suddenly shut down for some
reason besides a power outage.

Found reason when opened the case and found a broken P4 cpu heat sink
retainer and loose heat sink.

Did some searching and found others with same problem.

For example:

"The heatsink is clamped onto a black plastic moulding which appears
to be screwed onto the motherboard and surrounds the CPU socket. On of
the 'legs' which sticks up from this has broken. As a result one end
of the heatsink cannot be tightly clamped to the CPU.
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.co...b013fe15c9c2ab

"When i opened the box to clean it out (been sitting in the same place
in the shop for 5 years) I found one of the heatsink retainers just
lying in the case. Upon furter inspection i found that the plasic
square box that is mounted to the motherboard that the heatsink
attaches to is broken."
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=465220

Since this OEM part tends to fail would like to do a more permanent
repair.

Did a search using [best P4 CPU heat sink retainer] but so far have
not found anything of interest.

Am open to any comments, suggestions, tips...


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