Yeah you'll need thermal paste if you are going to remove it and put it back on, plus probably some Isopropanol to clean the old thermal paste off.
Though if the heatsink fan is actually the problem (i.e. it's beeping because the fan isn't going), that should be apparent without removing anything.
If it's a temperature alert, you'd probably be able to see right away that the heatsink isn't attached properly (I had that once where the heatsink retention bracket had actually broken and the heatsink wasn't making contact with the CPU).
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