Went to investigate why my multi card reader quit working so I opened my box up to take a look.
While I was in there (hey, the hood was open...) I thought, why not clean up the heat sink and get some of the dirt out of here?
When I released what I thought was the heat sink holding device the whole dang cpu came out instead.
They glued the heat sink to the cpu.
What the heck am I gonna do now?
Tried putting it back in but pins are bent now.
I can't see any way to align the cpu with the socket since it's buried under the heat sink.
What are my options?
I'm on my son's old laptop now. Thankfully I didn't listen to my wife and toss it out. The computer with the problem is an HP Pavilion a6720y running Vista 64 w/AMD Quad core processor. It had been flawless until the multi card reader stopped working the other day. I use it a lot to download pictures from my cameras.
Help?