Does anyone have any tips on how to properly remove the capacitors that are attached to the cool stack board on my Asus P5AD2-E Premium board? I've been trying for about an hour now to get the bad caps out, but I just can't get the solder to melt completely around the leads. I wicked out the top layer on the cool stack board itself, but it looks like there's another layer on the actual motherboard underneath. I have a 40 watt Weller iron with the base cranked all the way up. I was able to remove the other caps that aren't attached to this cool stack with no troubles at all.

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Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum, but not new to capacitor replacement. I fixed an LCD monitor by replacing a single bad capacitor on the power board about a year ago, and just recently replaced a second one I found in a dumpster by replacing two. It's amazing how you can repair a device for just a couple bucks and a little bit of time and research. Now I'm about to do my first replacement on a motherboard. I just discovered that my 5 year old Asus P5AD2-E Premium has 3 bad caps around the CPU, so I'm ordering them tonite...