Inherited a Dell Dimension 2300 that suddenly shut down for somereason besides a power outage.Found reason when opened the case and found a broken P4 cpu heat sinkretainer 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 appearsto be screwed onto the motherboard and surrounds the CPU socket. On ofthe 'legs' which sticks up from this has broken. As a result one endof the heatsink cannot be tightly clamped to the CPU."When i opened the box to clean it out (been sitting in the same placein the shop for 5 years) I found one of the heatsink retainers justlying in the case. Upon furter inspection i found that the plasicsquare box that is mounted to the motherboard that the heatsinkattaches to is broken."Since this OEM part tends to fail would like to do a more permanentrepair.Did a search using [best P4 CPU heat sink retainer] but so far havenot found anything of interest.Am open to any comments, suggestions, tips...ThanksKen

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Hi Doug,"...on my p.c. the original retainer clips had nothing to latch onto,as the plastic `slots` on heatsink base had broken off." I havesame problem."I made up =A0`L` =A0shaped brackets 25mm with 6mm hole drilledeach end,removed 4 screws and lifted off heatsink base,slid homebrewclips under the base, refit h.sink base with the screws passing thru`the holes in the homemade now gave the original springclamps somewhere to hook on to ! =A0 =A0Hope you can follow this Ken =A0!Am not sure how to include a piccy with this post, or would have takensnap with =A0 Still learning here ! !" Me too!! but photos dohelp!!"Most frequently just plop a photo on someplace like photobucket andgive a link. Pick a place that has rules you like." How does thatsound to you?Thanks again for all your help!Ken

Suggestions Replacing P4 CPU Heat Sink Retainer?

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KenO 15 years ago

Hi Doug,

"...on my p.c. the original retainer clips had nothing to latch on to,as the plastic `slots` on heatsink base had broken off." I have same problem.

"I made up =A0`L` =A0shaped brackets 25mm.by 25mm with 6mm hole drilled each end,removed 4 screws and lifted off heatsink base,slid homebrew clips under the base, refit h.sink base with the screws passing thru` the holes in the homemade clips.This now gave the original spring clamps somewhere to hook on to ! =A0 =A0Hope you can follow this Ken =A0! Am not sure how to include a piccy with this post, or would have taken snap with digi.cam. =A0 Still learning here ! !" Me too!! but photos do help!!

"Most frequently just plop a photo on someplace like photobucket and give a link. Pick a place that has rules you like." How does that sound to you?

Thanks again for all your help!

Ken

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Mike Tomlinson 15 years ago

In article , KenO writes

it doesn't have to be a Dell one. They're all the same, there's thousands of them on ebay for pennies apiece.

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Meat Plow 15 years ago

I read and comprehend just fine. While you slept you machine still took hours to render the mpeg video. My point wasn't virtual performance based on one's perception. And that fine with me. Not trying to tell you what equipment to use or how to use it I merely mentioned the actual performance of newer equipment.

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doug 15 years ago

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Ok, point noted ! always ready to learn. thanks Doug

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KenO 15 years ago

Hi Mike,

"it doesn't have to be a Dell one. =A0They're all the same, there's thousands of them on ebay for pennies apiece" Agree

Did a quick search and found a few different types for the P4

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As previously mentioned, am not impressed with the plastic ones so will try to repair my old one.

Hope a others who have successfully repaired their broken Intel P4 Heatsink Retention Modules will upload these photos.

Thanks

Ken

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Michael A. Terrell 15 years ago

As you can see (Or should be able to. I'm not sure about Google Groups) from the header of this message, I use Flicker

It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.

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