Ah, I didn’t know this, thank you. I can try from this when I want to remove it and see how it goes.

So the top part, the “heatsink” part, I can grab it by that, but the grip is bad and I can’t take it out (at least not without rapidly grabbing it and pulling it to the side out of the socket), and I don’t want to touch those electronics under it (as shown in your picture).

I can’t really grab it by the sides with fingers, I could perhaps with tweezers, but too afraid those could scratch something in the process.

A small suction cup might work as someone else mentioned though, but don’t have that.

Thank you. Yes, I know this, I put the PC together, so I know all the steps you describe here.

Thing is I can’t post a picture right now, cause the PC is assembled and in the case, but I might want to take it off soon. You can look up the motherboard, MSI B650 WIFI Gaming Plus.

When I do all this (and this is when I wanted to take it off back then), I can’t really grab the sides of the CPU, the CPU is in the hole in the socket, surrounded by the socket.

Well, I kinda am not trying to take the CPU out right now, but last time I tried I faced this issue (as well as when trying to put in, I just had to sorta drop it from a bit above), and I might want to take it out again soon.

The cooler/heatsink is removed in this case, by heatsink in the OP I mean, the like metal thing on top of CPU, the thing you put thermal paste on, not the actual heatsink you put on the CPU, but the shield thingy attached to the CPU.

Audio from jack appears… to be working fine. Obviously I am just going by ears and some songs playing, so I can’t tell if some minor frequency or noise is present.

I could try to see if someone can repair it, though with how high repair costs can be, I don’t know if it is more affordable + the worry that they didn’t repair it properly. So it might just be better to get another board (which would either way mean, disassembling the whole PC again and rebuilding it). Luckily a motherboard isn’t that expensive compared to the other parts at least.

By causing other problems, what do you mean exactly happened in their cases?