devius wrote on Today, 12:34:

Ozzuneoj wrote on Yesterday, 21:49:

Man... I think I got hosed on this one.

Why don't you just take the CPUs out and actually see what you have there?

I'm guessing you missed the part about the heatsinks being adhered to the processors? Why would I make a whole post with photos asking about this if they were easy to take off? 😋

I tried prying in every reasonable way possible without damaging the board, including using a heat gun to soften the adhesive and they do not budge. They are also blocking the levers on the sockets, so if the coolers don't come off I would have to yank them straight out of the locked sockets, which is really a bad idea.

Rather than destroy what is probably a (to me) useless pair of boards and old Pentiums, it makes far more sense to just be able to return them to the seller as-is if they don't match the description. Once I checked the thickness of the ceramic I realized that it was easy to tell they were definitely not K6 processors.

Sorry, I didn't understand that not being able to remove the heatsinks would prevent the removal from the socket as well.

Mandrew wrote on Today, 16:47:

FINALLY a working 286 Octek board with PLCC socket and no acid damage.

Nice, that one looks familiar, like I had one pass through some years ago, be nice if it turns up. Got a suspicion it was the one I left behind in a move that had a 25mhz Harris on though.