Anyone help! How do I remove heat sink from P2 Processor?

[mrozone]

Hello
If you know, please help me. I'm introuble.

Now, I'm trying to make a Linux machine.
I pulled Pentium 2 out of old machine and trying to build in a new box.
I don't buy a fan yet but I'm trying to have a fan on top of the heat sink, so I want to remove heat sink.......I guess that there are two metal slides so I pushed them down and slide......but I could't remove it.
Is it impossible to remove it once a manufacturer fixed it......? or is there a different method to remove it? I googled lots of sites but I couldn't find the info I need. Now, it is very tough.
I took a photo of my CPU.
http://home.nyc.rr.com/mrozone/p2.jpg
If you know how to remove it or any other info, could you please give me? I really appreciate your help.
Thank you in advance.

[RedFury]

probably has some thermal epoxy holding the heatsink on that Slot processor... I don't have any experience or practical knowledge of slot processors, but that would be my guess...it's glued on the processor. I don't believe you will be told that it can't be removed, but it may prove difficult.

[John Prophet]

I have lots of slot1 cpus...seems there were a million and one different ways of mounting heatsink...some look like they need special tools etc....some just pop off easily.

hard to say, JP

[mrozone]

Thanks for the replies, RedFury and John.
I appreciated your help.
It is glued....that is what I thought at first time......and I didn't hope so.

If I can't do that, I can't have a fan.....? or how do I cool the CPU down in a new box in this case? Is there a special separate fan I can attach??
If you know a fan, could you please tell me?
Thanks,

[Nighthawk]

You could always try to attach a fan with whatever you've got, but I don't really think that's a long-term solution..

What you can try doing is running it for a while nonstop so the heatsink gets really hot, then turn it off and twist the heatsink off while the bonding stuff is warm and weak

[mrozone]

Thanks, Nighthawks.
I'm going to try it.

[Nighthawk]

heh, probably would have been better to look at the picture

Your heatsink is actually held on there by the two metal bands running up the heatsink in the main grooves. It looks like there's a lever arm on at least one of the bands.. I'd try pulling it up. Failing that, I'd grab some pliers and try to bend those bands off. They're attached to a solid piece of metal (aluminum?) so they shouldn't bend any of the CPU.

I highlighted what I'm talking about and put the new image up at students.washington.edu/ggt/p2.jpg

[Omardeth]

that cpu heatsink was designed to run without a fan . alot of systems don't and didn't have fans on them . most dell, ibm,hp,compaq don't have fans on the cpu . i don't think you will really have any problem running it the way it is . just make sure u have good air flow in the case and i think you will be ok . that is a huge heatsink . it is 2x the size of a slot heatsink with a fan on it . the retail hsf for those was not as big . the heatsink was half that size and the fan was only like 40mm in size if that . i wouldn't spend any money to try to remove it and get a new hsf for it . the hsf will cost more than the cpu almost . just run it like it is you will be fine . if your that worried about it get a 60mm fan and mount it on there someway . or get a zalman bracket or rig something like this then you don't have to remove the heatsink and u got a fan on it .