Changing motherboard - safe way to remove heatsink?

I goofed while building a system on the weekend and realized this morning
that the Asus board I used does not have RAID functionality. I'm picking
up a new board shortly and will "do the transplant" when I get home.

Given the way you attach the socket 775 heatsink to a motherboard, what is
the quickest and safest way to remove it so it can be used again? On
tomshardware I did see that when they tested the new socket 775 processors
they did mention that the processors could easily survive a "few changes"
without damage. So that must mean that they've built the system and then
took the heatsink off and put it back after removing and replacing the
processor... so it can be done.

Any quick tips to make sure I don't mess up the motherboard or the
heatsink pins will be greatly appreciated.

Mike

Michael Mason wrote:
> I goofed while building a system on the weekend and realized this morning
> that the Asus board I used does not have RAID functionality. I'm picking
> up a new board shortly and will "do the transplant" when I get home.
>
> Given the way you attach the socket 775 heatsink to a motherboard, what is
> the quickest and safest way to remove it so it can be used again? On
> tomshardware I did see that when they tested the new socket 775 processors
> they did mention that the processors could easily survive a "few changes"
> without damage. So that must mean that they've built the system and then
> took the heatsink off and put it back after removing and replacing the
> processor... so it can be done.
>
> Any quick tips to make sure I don't mess up the motherboard or the
> heatsink pins will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Mike

My ASUS manual had steps for removing/reinstalling CPU/heatsink. Did
you check the manual for help .