Install a pinned cpu.

[Blaineoliver]

You should have left it turned on to heat it up, would come off much easier that way.

[scaryjim]

You should have left it turned on to heat it up, would come off much easier that way.

as I say reading this thread was the first time I'd even heard of the possibility of this happening. It was all down to the nasty pink gunk the cooler manufacturer used: it appears to basically become like blu-tack one heated (I have a small squishy ball of the stuff downstairs that I peeled off the cooler!) and had fused the CPU onto the cooler. And of course, by the time I found out I had a problem, I couldn't turn the PC on to heat the CPU because the CPU had pulled out of the socket with the retaining bar still down, and it's virtually impossible to reseat the CPU with the retaining arm down.

Still, I'll know for next time *sigh*

[Behemoth]

This happened to me once to be honest when I was working in my PC when I was running a 560 SLI chipset motherboard. Well when I say I did, it wasn't me that did it. Someone thought as I was helping them out by teseting out parts of their dead PC that they would help me by taking my CPU out for me.

The guy just grabbed the cooler before I had a chance to stop him and yanked it clean off the board, CPU still attatched to the cooler !

The board never worked again, but the CPU did !