Help! Cooler Bracket on AM2 MB Broken!

[bolt14]

Recently I was doing a gaming session on BF 2142 and the sytem shutdown suddenly. It did this three times and I finally opened the case and found my Artic Freezer 64 Pro OFF THE PROCESSOR 8O AND LOOSE ON TOP OF MY 8800GTS! 🙁 The thing had come completely loose from the MB and the part of the plastic bracket was snapped off. I am using the same computer to type with the tower lying sideways on the floor and the cooler JUST RESTING on the CPU! Please help!

Many Thanks!

Cullen (A.K.A Bolt14)

 

[sirheck]

you might be able to get another bracket from your mobo manufacturer?

 

[m25]

Just when on another thread (Picking a CPU), I was discussing with apt403 the more or less danger of of tower coolers 😀
You should find some mounting brackets around on ewiz or newegg, in the same session of coolers

 

[sirheck]

yeah i have a couple of the arcticfreezer coolers.

tall and kinda heavy 8O .

but ihave had no problems yet.

**now going to go and knock on some wood**

oh except for the fact that my hdd is broke on my main gaming
computer :x

only got to enjoy the new 8800 card for bearly a week before
the hdd decided to go south

 

[bolt14]

I intend to. ASUS has been good to me up till now. What REALLY ticks me off is I am now like SirHeck. Except I have 2 useless 8800GTS' sitting in a damaged M2N32 SLI Deluxe! 🙁

 

[bolt14]

What I am more worried about is if I have damaged my CPU because before I realized the cooler was off, I had the computer running :!: I dont have much money to replace things with because I just spent a good chunk of it on those 2 8800's.

 

[sirheck]

if you had your computer side ways and it was working.
then your cpu is probably ok.

you should be able to get another bracket from asus.

then swap them out.
i cant remember but they should be a bolt on bracket.

 

[leadtrombone]

You are lucky because thermal right has made a new version of the am2 heat sink bracket that will work well with your freezer pro 64.

thermalright am2 bracket rev 2

p.s. it's cheap

 

[coylter]

I have the feeling the same is gonna happen with my scythe infinity on my core 2.....

 

[Grimmy]

Well.. find someway to secure it with string/tie straps if its really that bad.

 

[Shizamaaur]

This is quite like deja vue. I have the same cooler but on a 939 and I was playing BattleField and i heard a snap and a clunk... I immediatly thought "Uh oh thats not good" and i shut down and what did you know, the plastic snapped from the the bracket. Good luck to ya, i had to go 1 week without my comp 🙁 while I ordered a new one online, it was like 7$

 

[tehrobzorz]

lol string.


and that revision? 8O looks like they just combined a s478 bit onto the am2.
your lucky that mb isnt dead too 8) ..

i think you remove the thing by unscrewing the two bolts and take off the backplate thing. ( the crazycool or sumthing like that)

 

[capnbfg]

I had the same thing happen with my current system using the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64, and EPoX wouldn't replace the bracket unless I RMAed the whole motherboard. That wasn't an option because I needed my computer for schoolwork, so I made a replacement out of Lexan. Instead of making a cooler with tabs though, I made one with holes for screw-on style heatsinks and then bought a Zalman 9500. Here are some pictures:

If making a custom part is not an option for you, then the Thermalright bracket linked above is probably a good idea.

 

[bolt14]

Actually, I have now fixed it and you won't believe whats holding it on there. Ready? TWIST TIES!!! :lol:

 

[bullmoose]

found these today in search for a busted one on an ecs mother brd (AM2)

http://www.cwc-group.com/am21.html