Are you sure? I have seen thermal compound get very, very hard, but still breakable. Try twisting it against the CPU.
- Alex -- Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than to put one in a fruit salad. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:27 PM, James H. E. Maugham < [email protected]> wrote: > I've got a T42P here in excellent shape and with the 14" wide display. > Just > keeps throwing the dreaded "fan error" on BOOT. > > Got a new long fan off Ebay and opened it up to perform a fanectomy, only > to > find that the existing fan's heatsink is epoxied to the CPU! > > Seriously, it's not just stuck because of dried heatsink compound, it's > glued on. > > Looks like I'll be needing a new MB for this puppy. > > Had a very needy and worthy new non-profit home for it too. > > James > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
