Hi folks,
Anyone know how the hell you get the CPU retention clips off a DELL motherboard? (Precision 350 in this instance)
See where it says RETENTION BASE below - there are these big round white plastic things going through the motherboard and have the black cap things on the other end. I'm guessing these big white things are screw/clips but I can't figure out how to get them out or the black cap things off without destroying them? Is that the only way out?
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Sliced the top of the black cap off, exposing the rest of the which screw clip. Then placed a small allen key on the end of said white screw clip. Took hammer and knocked the screw clip out! The retention clips then came off with a good bit of tugging care of some long nose pliers.
