Removing socket 1156 stock cooler

[Jordan Aberle]

Welcome to Intel hell.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:19 PM, John <jharitos at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I bought the parts to make a new Ubuntu system. Unfortunately, the new
> power supply was bad and I cooked my RAM, MB, i5 processor, and one other MB
> before I realized the PSU was the culprit. I need to send everything back to
> the PSU maker. I removed the 1156 cooler once and it was not a pleasant
> experience. Two of the push pins came right up but the other two would not
> and I had a nasty time getting it off. I searched vids and they said to use
> a screw driver but this didn't work. Anyone have a video or an idea of how
> to remove the fan without using force.
>
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