Trying to remove a system fan from an old Dell using Pentium D?

[Amusingorb570]

Just taking apart two old Dells, and even after everything else is removed, the fan will not come out after I press the two clips. I have tried moving it around a bit while pressing the clips, but it still won't move. Any answers?


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[The Paladin]

got a picture of the fan in question, you can post it on imgur.com and link us to it

 

[BFG-9000]

Just as on GPUs, the factory TIM is often a plastic that actually is supposed to melt to conform to irregular surfaces. As you'd imagine, this makes a pretty good glue and there is a lot more surface area on a heatspreader than a GPU. Heat the heatsink up with a hairdryer and twist it off.

S775 positively captures the CPU so you can use quite a bit of force with no fear of pulling the CPU out of the closed socket.

 

[The Paladin]

well I am not sure I would recommend anyone to use as much force as they want to pull a heatsink from a cpu, that sounds like a bad situation to have the suctions caused by the paste and heatsink to decap the cpu.... (remove the cover of metal over the actual cpu), but the twisting method is pretty safe.

 

[Amusingorb570]

Thanks guys, there was just a certain method of sliding the fan out, as it wasn't actually fused to the case. And the metal cover of the CPU wasn't actually pulled off, as the thermal paste was more than ten years old (I know this is not recommended, it wasn't my pc). But thanks anyway, I just wanted to get rid of the case as I didn't need it anymore.