Problem installing an Arctic Cooler 64 Pro

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Grindylu

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I'm trying to install the mentioned cooler in an ASUS M2NPV-VM but it absolutely refuses to fit.

The problem is that when I follow the cooler's instructions to push the lever down then out, it doesn't push the brackets low enough to snap onto the mounting tabs on the CPU, no matter how hard I push.

What am I doing wrong here?
 
[2dP]MightyMatt;1030613539 said:
Put the heat sink in the brackets first, then secure it with the lever?
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Exactly, the brackets should be loose enough to grab the tabs on the motherboard with the level in an upright position, THEN lower it down to lock it in place. You may need to take apart and rotate the bracket 180 degrees in order to do this easily.
 
Spend a bit of time playing with it, figuring out how the bracket works. When I installed one, it took me a while since it works in a non-obvious (to me, anyway) fashion.
 
I had the same problem but on a 939 board. The side with the latch which your suppose to pull back on to fasten it in place simply would not go low enough for the three mounting tabs. I damn near broke off some capacitors and the heat pipe from my board trying to get the thing on for about two hours. Money wasted.
 
You gotta jiggle the shit out of it once the side without the lever is clipped in.

Edit: It wasn't that great of a cooler anyways. In a system with two 2000RPM 120mm fans (1 intake 1 exhaust) and 1 side intake 92mm the fucker ran at like 59C loaded with 1.42v. That was an Opteron 165, by the way.

I tried to slide a razorblade in between the copper core and the processor to see if it was making contact and I couldn't and it juiced some of the MX-5 paste out anyways.

I do love the ACF 7 Pro for my C2D, though.
 
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