Hello,
I tried to dismantle my 10 y.o Packard Bell OneTwo L5710 in order to clean the fans and change the CPU's thermal paste.
However, I cannot for the life of me get the heatsink off the CPU, which looks like this View: https://imgur.com/a/G6fMASF
IIRC it's an Intel Pentium Dual Core E-5400, and the socket is a LGA775.
Even with 6 screws unscrewed, the heatsink is still tightly attached to the CPU. Moving the little metal bar doesn't do much besides pushing down on the motherboard, since AFAIK it's meant to open the CPU socket, whose upwards movement is prevented by that unmovable heatsink.
Is there something I'm missing, or are they soldered together? I'm not very hardware-savvy, but from my Google searches, I was under the impression it was rare for desktop computers to have their heatsink soldered.
Thanks for the help!
I tried to dismantle my 10 y.o Packard Bell OneTwo L5710 in order to clean the fans and change the CPU's thermal paste.
However, I cannot for the life of me get the heatsink off the CPU, which looks like this View: https://imgur.com/a/G6fMASF
IIRC it's an Intel Pentium Dual Core E-5400, and the socket is a LGA775.
Even with 6 screws unscrewed, the heatsink is still tightly attached to the CPU. Moving the little metal bar doesn't do much besides pushing down on the motherboard, since AFAIK it's meant to open the CPU socket, whose upwards movement is prevented by that unmovable heatsink.
Is there something I'm missing, or are they soldered together? I'm not very hardware-savvy, but from my Google searches, I was under the impression it was rare for desktop computers to have their heatsink soldered.
Thanks for the help!