"^&*()!!! Slotket stuck in slot

[alpha]

My celeron 900 arrived - i decided to test it, as one does, to make sure tis all in order. I went to take out my slotket w/C533 in it (Generic with plastic casing) and the right side was stuck in - not moving at all - the left side was still free. I made sure the little clips or whatever you'd call them arn't enagaged but I couldn't unstick the right side. I pushed it in, undid the clips again and tried to remove it - this time both sides are stuck fast. I can't figure out what's holding the damned thing in. I've pulled pretty damn hard but it won't budge and I don't wanna crack a printed circuit on the motherboard.
So, i set the jumpers to near as possible to 1.75v without fidling too much with the jumpers, which in this case was 1.85v. I put in the chip without taking out the slotket and i mounted my RDJD K601 - the cooler won't mount flush with the CPU - y'know the part of the socket that is raised that says "PPGA 370"? It hits the heatsink and ofsets it - I confirmed this when I started up and watched the temp slowly but steadily rise to 53C at which point I powered down.

SO WHAT DO I DO??? How am i to get this damned thing out?

[Hellmund]

OK, so the slocket it just stuck in the Slot 1. It's probaly locked under that little tab that funnily enough locks the Slot 1 processor in place...U should be able to apply pressure where the finger groove is on the outside of the bracket and pull it off...

[alpha]

I was not aware of any finger groove or locking tab - it came out before without trouble - I'll have a look. Sorry for my ignorance on the subject, I used to have caseless slotket.
So the finger groove is on the side of the two things beside the slot which the slotket slides into?

[alpha]

Hey, the plastic on one of the clips got fatigued and broke off. The finger grooves on the retention mechanism did nothing - after breaking a clip, i could see how it all worked and use a matchstick to unlock the other side - after getting it out, i removed the clipy stay in mechanism thingy from the slotket - it was just in the way....

[Hellmund]

Well atleast u got it off, haven't had too much experience with SLot 1 myself, well I've put in a few slocket cpu's...never truly used those those little retention clips. Only once on a PIII-450....glad u got it out though, now u can put the PEP-66 on properly.

[alpha]

When the PEP66 arives.... unlike the RDJD, it has a raised part which will allow it to mount properly....

I got a huge full tower ATX case today.... heh heh

[Hellmund]

Heh, hope u have long IDE cables, one thing that made me reconsider getting a full-tower. I'm looking at a HX-45 was Aopen, midi-tower with a 300PS for about $70 USD(this is quite good for Aus). Although I'm still shopping.....

[alpha]

The IDE cable for the CD drive just reaches the board when it's in the top bay....
I was in Peat's (shop in Dublin) and I was lookin at cases and asking bout them. None were just plain cases (what I like - don't like this fancy colouredy stuff) and all had at least a bit of coloured plastic or something on the front. I asked bout the midi cases and the guy said, during the course of the conversation "i mean, you wouldn't even get them cheaper in Maplin's...."

So, over to Maplin's - hey look, cheaper cases.... I bought a full tower with a 230watt PSU for £50 - I had a 300watt DEER psu I bought when 300watt's were just starting to be needed for Athlon's and were still expensive. I put that in it and I have a lovely full tower case. I have all my stuff in it now and it won't fit under my desk - i have it beside it