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    Help Needed: Broken HSF post

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by The Stig, Oct 12, 2009.

  1. The Stig

    The Stig Notebook Guru

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    So I've got an issue, I broke one of those post things that the HSF screws into. It seems to have been over torqued and overcame the solder/epoxy that holds the post to the motherboard. Can anyone offer some suggestions? The best one I could think of on my own is buying some high temp epoxy and delicately apply some to the mating surface. It won't be as strong as before but certainly better than no attachment at all. I included some pictures for reference.

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    I think some non-conductive hi-temp apoxy would work.. just make sure you let it fully bond. Also, you shouldn't have to use a lot of torque to tighten the HSF assembly down. Just make sure you're a bit more careful this time. :)
     
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  3. The Stig

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    any thoughts on a specific brand? I was thinking of going to the local auto parts store and getting some higher temp JB Weld and then let it cure for a day or so
     
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    Hello, Did the glue work for you? I have the same problem on my gateway FX motherboard. I know it has to be a way to fix it besides replacing the whole motherboard...
     
    jroc201, Nov 5, 2009
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    a hi temp apoxy would be better then jb weld because jb weld is highly conductive.

    also i couldnt really tell what happened there as the pictures are extremely blurry. you should also get yourself a nice camera too :D
     
    InfectedSonic, Nov 6, 2009
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    Actually I haven't fixed it yet because I got a little lazy and put together my Sony SZ laptop and have been using that as my backup laptop lately. I'll get around to it, I want to change the thermal pad on the CPU and GPU also.

    I still need to source a good high temp epoxy. And I didn't realize JB Weld was conductive. There's some stuff from Devcon that is supposed to be good for this sort of thing so I'm going to look into that. Basically what happened is the support for the HSF sheared off because I overtorqued the screws holding it in.

    iPhone camera isn't the best thing for this sort of application but for 95% of the other things I do it gets the job done.
     
    The Stig, Nov 7, 2009
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