Stripped screw !

I got my t9300 yesterday and sat down to replace the old cpu in my p6860. Everything was going fine until I hit the last screw holding down the tension clip on the heat sink. The sucker wouldn't budge. I put a little force into it and ended up with a completely stripped screw. I've tried everything. Different shapes and sizes of screwdrivers (now the inner surface of the screw is completely smooth), pliers, super glueing a screw driver to the screw. Even the smallest screw extractor at home depot wouldn't move it. The retards down at geek squad "didn't know" if the could remove it either. The only options I see right now are cutting the tension clip and glueing it together later, drilling through the screw or slicing it down the center and then using a flat head to get it out. Now I've got a $300 processor collecting dust next to my laptop. Please help!

 

Check out this thread....

If screw-extractors don't work, try out the dremel trick in #8.

Or cut through the heat-sink, and buy a new one from a spare-parts dealer/ebay....
(Heat-sinks ain't that expensive, are they ?! )

 

Dremel to cut a channel for standard screwdriver. If that fails (strips). Straighten two opposite sides of round screw head and go back to pliers/vice grips.

 

This screw is tiny. I don't think I'll be able to cut across it. Also wont it send metal shavings flying into my laptop.

 

Lol, that sucks. Guess you learn to use the right size driver the first time so you dont strip it ehh?

Are you sure the screw out doesnt work? I have never seen it not work.

 

It's too big. The extractor's threads cant reach the inside of the screw.

 

Sell the laptop as it is and buy a cheap 6860 from Best Buy clearance. I saw one the other day for $800.

 

have you tried a screw extractor? One that drills its own hole into a screw so it can be removed with its own drill bit?

EDIT: also check out this site: http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-a-Stripped-Screw

 

WysockiSauce, please do not cross post on these forums. Cross posting is against the forum rules. Thank you.

 

Sorry about the cross post. I just really needed help fast. But Jesus Christ. I finally got it out. You guys will never believe this. I got so pist I took my drill and completely drilled the head off. I took the heatsink off and was actually able to take plyers and twist the shaft of the screw out. You can not believe how relieved I am. I WILL NEVER STRIP A ****ING SCREW AGAIN. A 15 minute upgrade turned into a 3 day catastrophe. I'm now using one of the screws ( which is a bit shorter) from the wireless card to hold the cpu down. Is it ok if I leave the wireless card down with one screw? Also after taking the heatsink off i noticed a second chip to the right (covered with a thermal pad) should I take off the pad and add some AS5? Finally I vacuumed most of the metal dust from the drilling but is there anything I can use to really clean the mobo off?

 

Leave that thermal pad in place if you can and as for having one screw for the wireless card its fine. i had a similar problem with my 6860 when i had it and did the exact same thing with the screw from the wireless card and its been all well and good since then and my friend has had no problems to speak of after buying it.

 

Great...Next post will be from my upgraded p6860 I hope

 

Ok typing from my p6860 right now the t9300 is in and posting in cpuz
I'm looking at the temps right now and am getting a weird fluctuation. The fan turns off temps go to 41c then it turns on and the drop to 35c is it supposed to be doing that?

 

Run orthos with HWmonitor and if it skyrockets in temps fast then you may not have mounted the heatsink properly .

 

Ok it went up to 50c fast, but it stayed there for as long as the program was open. Is that ok?

 

yep your ok

 

All right, ran it for 5mins and temps stayed at 55c I think I'll be ok. Also how long is the burn in period for AS5.

edit. Yea! ran 3dmark gpu at (600/800/1500) and scored 9182. Cpu temps never above 55c, Gpu temps never above 71c.

 

Same thing happened to me.
I had to take it to a shop, and they fixed it for me and replaced the old CPU. Dont do it yourself and risk breaking the entire thing - believe me, because I was close!

 

You talking about the screw ? I already fixed it. I posted about it on the first page. Also I did it for free .

 

AS5 has a burn in time of about 200 hours. I use the Artic Silver Cermique, as i dont trust the contents of AS5 (they still conduct even if rarely) And the 1-2 degrees of difference doesnt scare me when i undervolted the x9000 to 1.0volts and some by some miracle its actually stable.

Glad to hear you got the screw out though, that can be a pain in the butt if a screw that small ever strips out. The last time i lost a screw that size i used my modeling drill bits to bore 2 holes in the head and used reverse pliers to unscrew it... pain in the butt.

Why would you pay someone to do a job that is honestly 5 minutes long? I understand if something went wrong and yo uneeded help (like a screw that stripped), but swapping the CPU's int eh FX line of notebooks is probably easier than swapping them in a desktop due to the perfect location and placement.

 

Oh ok Im glad you fixed it... !
I broke the screw completely, the head was practically gone.. Because I kept trying myself!

 

I drilled the head until it fell off and then used pliers to unscrew the shaft. The head was too small to get any grip.

 

Thanks man. I have the exact same problem you had. I dont have a drill so i went out to buy one (im very broke by the way ). Im wating for it to charge up. Please any more advice before i go ahead ?

Thanks

 

Be VERY CAREFUL! Use the method I posted only as a last resort. Try using pliers, super gluing a screw driver to it and all the other stuff I did before you drill the head off. When you do drill the head use a big bit and make sure you don't go deeper than you have to.Try to cover the area around the screw with something to catch the metal shavings. If any get in, vacuum them and then clear any smaller pieces off with a q-tip or something. Also take your time!

 

Thanks man, the operation went successfull
I did exactly what you did just that i didnt have to drill all the way. I had my drill in the reverse direction. so automagicaly it un wound.

thanks again.

I think this problem is very common with the 6860fx, the n.o 1 screw on the heat sink

 

yeah, i have one screw that is pretty stipped in my 6860, but i have one screw drive i can use. just push down a little, not to much, and slowly start to turn and then it comes out fine.

 

Good to hear it worked. Enjoy your new cpu.