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I repeated the hot air process, moving the hot air blower around the entire IHS and not staying focused at the center spot. When my temperature reader read around 65C, I tried a few pries around. Still felt rather stiff. So I blew more hot air, till about 80C. Now one side felt really about to come off and the other side still felt tight. So I blasted the heat onto that side and tried prying again. Softer... went back to the first side, pried... came off...

Did I say one? Well make that two... Well it was a weird feelling having killed 2 CPUs within an hour. I am beginning to think this is just about as easy as a heart transplant. Thinking back, I would think that my main mistake is in prying. This was a habit I was accustomed to when removing IHS from AMD CPUs. Logic tells us that the core contact points with the PCB should not melt before the solder on the IHS so staying around the IHS solder temperature should not cause the core to fall off. The only reason I think is that I was prying when the solder was only slightly softened. The next time I try, I will not be doing any prying but will be pushing the IHS from one side. When the solder gets "runny" enough, the IHS should slide off the core. Let's hope at least. And next time, I probably should TRY to do this on a dead CPU :O

Meanwhile, I'll put the core back on the PCB. I think it should work again... what say you??