Hi, Had a good laugh today. A mate of mine wanted to upgrade his motherboard so he brought in his current machine which turned out to be a PC World jobbie. On closer inspection it turned out that the heatsink was stuck well and truly onto the CPU. It would not budge ! In desperation we called our local PC emporium and the techy just said - bring it in and we'll take a look. He managed to part the CPU and heatsink using - a vice and a hair drier :-) I don't have those items in my toolkit - maybe I should ! -- Cheers, *Paul* Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense