Stripped GPU heatsink Screw

[Murderator]

time for a ghetto solution then


look for a carbarundum cutting disc....you can get them at 1mm thickness. Using a back and fore motion by hand....NOT MACHINE cut a a groove in the screwhead.. Its well worth taking 10 or 15 mins to do it slowly and carefully. Every swipe you make will remove a tiny amount. Have a vacuum cleaner running the whole time.

you can do this if you take your time and use a back and fore rubbing motion......the discs cost pennies.

the discs are easy to break and you may find that using a broken piece will be easier to manage

I can only find these at online store here

Really ANY pliars with a flat tip can work, but if you dont think you can get it unscrewed, just take a second to decide whether NOT removing it is an option (what I mean by this ,is if you're just doing this to look at it ,or replace thermal paste for good measure.... don't ,put the other screws back in and leave it for the next owner).

Ive never known of a reliable adhesive method, so in my opinion, your better off pushing that out of your mind. I would say your best choices of the following

Do what @CAPSLOCKSTUCK said and cut a slot for removal.

Use pliars with a flat tip, or tinsnips with a sharp tip.

Or put the cover back on if its an option, & let the next owner deal with it.

You also could take it to a repair shop, but In my opinion, this is really the BEST case scenario you'll find with a stripped screw, atleast its not inset, or flush. Id go for the pliars method.

or these ,

Yea my laptop is fine now. That because i enabled the DTS in advanced BIOS. Otherwise my laptop stutters heavily when gaming.
So now the stutters gone but in Intel XTU, i see "Thermal throttling Yes". So i think the BIOS throttle the GPU rather than CPU before DTS enabled.

I think i'm gona try to cut it first.

 

[Vya Domus]

I recommend just taking it to a repair shop. It wont cost much and probably they'll do it on the spot. They deal with these all the time , you might run into the risk of screwing it up (no pun inteded) even more if you try it on your own.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Is there a jeweller near you? He will cut a slot for you

 

[Vario]

Might be able to use a small hacksaw blade, not a hacksaw, just the blade, with your fingers and cut a slot in the head of it, then use a large flathead screwdriver to turn it out.

 

[Thefumigator]

The screw are seems fragile to me. Maybe this will work with hands. But it have the same risk with saw method right? bits of shavings?


This one

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I asked those pliers at local store, doesn't have one.

Aren't they expensive?

I've never had stripped screw before.So when it's bit stuck i didn't expect this, keep forcing it. If i knew such case, i'll glue them before they stripped competely, it'll help right?

I have to be honest, I had exactly the same problem once and I just turned clockwise the whole heatsink while pulling it up. Not the best method I agree...

 

[Murderator]

Halo everyone
Finally...
I ended up using a hacksaw, make a flat cut, and turns out my flathead screwdriver is not big enough. So i use the hacksaw as a flathead screwdriver . For metal shavings, I covered with an expired calendar paper.

Thermal paste GD900 ~4.8 w/m k
Tissue paper
Ethanol 95%, isopropil alcohol is hard to find.

Then swtich the stripped screw with the other mainboard screw, it's exact same screw.

Max temperature now using Intel XTU CPU stress test are lower by 10 degree Celcius from 74 to 64.
But still thermal throttling. And when i default the bios temperature setting, games still stutters, GPUz still report "perfcap pwr".
This problem occur since my battery is dead (i forgot to plug AC while gaming) . So maybe i just have to buy a new battery.

I turn it back to DTS enabled

But still happy coz temps are so much lower.
Thanks everyone

 

[Vario]

Nice I am glad it worked that is wonderful!

 

[Murderator]

Nice I am glad it worked that is wonderful!

Yes thanks man, i'll have no idea about metal shavings and big screwdriver if i didn't came here at TPU forum.

 

[jboydgolfer]

what always happens to me is ill remove all screws, and the LAST F@cking one turns out to have been tightened by ironman or the hulk when will i learn to test ALL screw b4 taking the rest out...this JUST happened with my wives phone battery replacement i had to do, except it was the worlds tiniest Torx screw EVER

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

i can usually get them out OK. Finding the right place to put them back is the problem.