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Dell PowerEdge R430 Owner's Manual

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Removing a heat sink

Prerequisites

  1. If installed, remove the full-length PCIe card(s).
  2. Remove the cooling shroud.

Steps

  1. Loosen one of the screws that secure the heat sink to the system board.
    Allow some time (approximately 30 seconds) for the heat sink to loosen from the processor.
  2. Remove the screw diagonally opposite to the screw that you first removed.
  3. Repeat step 1 and 2 for removing the remaining two screws.
  4. Remove the heat sink.
    Figure 1. Removing a heat sink
    This figure shows removing the processor heat sink.
    1. retention screw (4)
    2. heat sink
    3. processor socket
    4. retention screw slot (4)

Next steps

  1. Replace the heat sink(s) and processor(s).
  2. Replace the processor and heat sink.

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