Fixing broken tab on Socket 370?

[Hamilton]

I bought a Tualatin board (ASUS TUV4X) on ebay a while ago and was planning to install it in a backup PC when I noticed that one of the tabs for the HSF was broken. :cussing:

Anyone have a good idea how to fix it or another way of getting a good mount for the HSF (Global Win FEP32)? :help:

[STEvil]

Might get by with a Tualatin CPU with IHS, other than that unless it has mounting holes things arent looking good.

Got a good pic of the area? Might be able to make something out of bondo......

[Hamilton]

When looking at it I just realised I can probably cut a small flat piece of metal with the same width as the tab. Then heat it up and just melt it into the end of the socket... :idea: :smoke:

[STEvil]

careful not to short out anything under the socket.. and you will need to use spring steel so it doesnt just bend and fall out.

[xytrius]

You cannot melt a piece of metal into the socket; it is thermosetting plastic and will not bind to the metal.

Get a Socket A heatsink and cut off the center right and center left part of the clamp on opposite sides (I am assuming a broken middle tab in the ZIF), you should be just fine. It will be a pain to “balance” the clamp when pressing down, but it is not hard.

Make sure that you mark the areas of the Socket A clamp you are going to cut off by removing the heatsink and try out the clamp with the processor. Use a thin shim of metal (trimmed razor blade will do) to protect the processor core while you are doing the dry run with the clamp and proc.

[STEvil]

By melting into I believe he meant to penetrate, not to form a bond.

[Hamilton]

Yeah, just heat it up and push it into the side of the socket where the tab used to be.

[lalPOOO]

Doing it that way has two main flaws, the first being that there is a high probability of the initial attempt to insert the metal into the socket destroying your socket and board. The second is that your inserted foreign object may not fully bond with the socket, and you may eventually discover that your heatsink has come off and either cracked your core and fallen onto your videocard, or simply come off and caused your chip to overheat. My suggestion would be to employ some creative hotglue, a shim, and horizontal and/or verticle straps/elastics going through the heatsink and around the board. Good luck.