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    Can't Unlock a Socket 370 CPU from an Foxconn Board

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sirdil, Sep 18, 2008.

  1. sirdil

    sirdil Newbie

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    Hi,

    my old Notebook CPU gives up. I've bought a new one for replace the old one. But I have a Problem with unlocking the CPU from the Socket to get it off. There are some arrows on the socket but I didn't understand how to do. I'd took a pic of the relevant parts. Please take a look and tell me how to get it.

    Here's the pic:
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    greetings,
    sirdil

    p.s.: It's an Gericom A386 Notebook with 1,2 GHz Celeron Processor on Foxconn Socket 370 Motherboard...
     
    sirdil, Sep 18, 2008
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  2. kuncheesh

    kuncheesh Notebook Evangelist

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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    When you say your cpu has given up, what do you mean?
    Is it just not powerful enough, or is the system not working anymore?

    the cpu is removable. Their are two small tabs on the plastic socket, with arrown pointingtoward the cpu. You need to get a small flathead screwdrive and stick it in their. Than gently pry the cpu out. Do so gently, and slowly. You will have to do this from one side, to the other, and back and forth. You need to do this, or else you can bend all of the pins on the cpu.

    Are you upgrading to a pentium 3 processor?

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Sep 19, 2008
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  4. sirdil

    sirdil Newbie

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    Thank you for the infos. I will test it an write down if it's flapped.

    @ K-TRON
    No, I replace it with the same CPU. The old one doesn't work anymore.
     
    sirdil, Sep 19, 2008
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