Post: How to fix bent CPU pins.
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03-26-2011, 02:36 PM
#1
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Thing's you need.
1. A Swiss army knife
2. Electronic plastic card (credit card etc)
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If you want to exact get a motherboard that physically is compatible with your CPU!
Finding the bent pins.
To do this you need good eyes and steady hands.
Hold the CPU on your eye height and close selected eye.
Now with your open eye move it across the CPU, your doing it right when pins aligns on rows.
If you don't see anything yet rotate the CPU 45degrees and try again until you find the problem.
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Take your knife and wedge it under the bent pin and stand it up. Do this until all pins are proportionately straight.
Now push your card in the empty space between the pins. DON'T RUN THE CARD BETWEEN THE PINS OR IT WILL BEND MORE OF THEM.
Do it from a different angle to re-alling the pins to columns.
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Testin your work.
When you're stopped correcting your pins it's time to test the CPU.
Try to put the processor in the in the processor socket from one corner to other. If it doesn't fit in try correcting the pins from the point where it didn't stopped going into the socket.
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When it goes into the socket you're finshed!
1. A Swiss army knife
2. Electronic plastic card (credit card etc)
You must login or register to view this content.
If you want to exact get a motherboard that physically is compatible with your CPU!
Finding the bent pins.
To do this you need good eyes and steady hands.
Hold the CPU on your eye height and close selected eye.
Now with your open eye move it across the CPU, your doing it right when pins aligns on rows.
If you don't see anything yet rotate the CPU 45degrees and try again until you find the problem.
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Take your knife and wedge it under the bent pin and stand it up. Do this until all pins are proportionately straight.
Now push your card in the empty space between the pins. DON'T RUN THE CARD BETWEEN THE PINS OR IT WILL BEND MORE OF THEM.
Do it from a different angle to re-alling the pins to columns.
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Testin your work.
When you're stopped correcting your pins it's time to test the CPU.
Try to put the processor in the in the processor socket from one corner to other. If it doesn't fit in try correcting the pins from the point where it didn't stopped going into the socket.
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When it goes into the socket you're finshed!
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03-26-2011, 05:51 PM
#5
Oneup
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Originally posted by Unsuccessful
What kind of CPU's have pins? Gay. jk. But, seriously are those from like '97 or something? My i7 950 has no pins.
Actually all AMD's have pins, that's not really something that's rare really. Intel boards have the pins on the boards. So there really isn't much of a difference, I'd rather bend a pin on the actual chip then on the board because it's soooo much hard to fix those
03-26-2011, 05:53 PM
#6
Winning
Former Staff
Originally posted by UP
Actually all AMD's have pins, that's not really something that's rare really. Intel boards have the pins on the boards. So there really isn't much of a difference, I'd rather bend a pin on the actual chip then on the board because it's soooo much hard to fix those
Ok, but you probably have less of a chance of bending the pins on a board then on a CPU.
03-26-2011, 05:55 PM
#7
Oneup
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Originally posted by Unsuccessful
Ok, but you probably have less of a chance of bending the pins on a board then on a CPU.
Actually no, it's about the same, when you goto lock the chip down, you can easily bend a pin if you put too much pressure on it, it was something I almost did recently when I was putting my i7 in.
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