Broken Socket

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Hey group,

I broke my CPU socket on my S370 TUSL2-C board tonight. Is there a way to
fix this, as far as resoldering a new socket or is that a bit much? It
broke right where the HS latch locks on, the little nub that comes out that
locks the HS on. There actually 2 lips on each side the HS latches too, and
one broke.

I've tried super glue, and model glue and neither seemed to work. I have
the HS barely holding on by the one little nub that's left, but I don't
think its tight enough cause the system keeps overheating if running at full
clock. It's a 1200 MHz 512 L2 @ 147 Degree's F, so I ran it down to 900
MHz @ 100 FSB and it seems to be holding @ around 110 Degree's F and running
okay.

I really hate to give this spectacular board up, so if there's a way to fix
it, I"m all ears.

Any and all comments welcomed!!

Doug
 
"Doug" <[email protected]> said:
Hey group,

I broke my CPU socket on my S370 TUSL2-C board tonight. Is there a way to
fix this, as far as resoldering a new socket or is that a bit much? It
broke right where the HS latch locks on, the little nub that comes out that
locks the HS on. There actually 2 lips on each side the HS latches too, and
one broke.

I've tried super glue, and model glue and neither seemed to work. I have
the HS barely holding on by the one little nub that's left, but I don't
think its tight enough cause the system keeps overheating if running at full
clock. It's a 1200 MHz 512 L2 @ 147 Degree's F, so I ran it down to 900
MHz @ 100 FSB and it seems to be holding @ around 110 Degree's F and running
okay.

I really hate to give this spectacular board up, so if there's a way to fix
it, I"m all ears.

Any and all comments welcomed!!

Doug
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Looking at a picture of the motherboard, I don't see a lot of
options. If the motherboard had holes around the processor
socket, then you could search for a bolt-on heatsink, but that
board has too much stuff around the socket to have room for
the needed holes.

On sockets that have three tabs on each side, the solution when
you bust off the middle tab, is to find a heatsink product with
a three tab clamp, where the two remaining tabs can take the load.
This page has a picture to illustrate the concept:

http://www.overclockers.com/articles451/

But, in your case, there are only two tabs, and if you bust of
the "centered" one, the remaining tab will only be able to give
an "asymmetric" down force. This means, if you can find a three
tab style heatsink (a light one, not one of those blocks of copper),
the clamp is going to be twisted, and that isn't likely to work
very well, and could bust off the remaining tab.

Here is one I found through Pricewatch. You might take the fan
off this and replace it with a fan that doesn't draw
quite as much current. I don't know how long the other tab
will last with a thing like this.

http://www.censuspc.com/Merchant2/m...Product_Code=TT-A1365&Category_Code=_CMCPUFAN
http://www.thermaltake.com/coolers/volcano/rs/a1365.htm

You could try looking through some of the reviews here for
ideas:

http://www.overclockers.com/topiclist/index15.asp#HEATSINK REVIEWS AND TIPS

HTH,
Paul
 
Hey, Thanx Paul, I do appreciate it. My suspicions are most likely
correct that there's not going to be much I can do about it. I do think the
task would be quite daunting to try and solder a new one on after
re-inspecting the situation. I have a couple smoked boards laying around
but that doesn't do me much good I'm afraid. I called around to some local
shops and no one is willing to take the task at hand on either, I was told
more then once to scrap it.
It was my own stupidity that broke the dang thing and now I'm paying the
price.

Thanx again for the time you took out to reply,

Doug
 
Eventually, the glue will probably break, and then you may well have to
buy both a new motherboard and a new CPU
 
Hey group,

I broke my CPU socket on my S370 TUSL2-C board tonight. Is there a way to
fix this, as far as resoldering a new socket or is that a bit much? It
broke right where the HS latch locks on, the little nub that comes out that
locks the HS on. There actually 2 lips on each side the HS latches too, and
one broke.

I've tried super glue, and model glue and neither seemed to work. I have
the HS barely holding on by the one little nub that's left, but I don't
think its tight enough cause the system keeps overheating if running at full
clock. It's a 1200 MHz 512 L2 @ 147 Degree's F, so I ran it down to 900
MHz @ 100 FSB and it seems to be holding @ around 110 Degree's F and running
okay.

I really hate to give this spectacular board up, so if there's a way to fix
it, I"m all ears.

Any and all comments welcomed!!

Doug
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Nope, your best bet is to go to ebay and win one on auction . I won a P3V4X
with 1 gig cpu for $30 on auction there.
 
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