Bent prongs >_<

[Nalif]

I'm having some serious computer trouble. First off, I sent my computer via UPS. When the box arrived, it was in decent condition, except for a dented corner. I didn't think much of it. Then I opened up the box - my computer was ruined. Prior to shipping, I took out my expensive components ( my nice RAM, 9700 Pro etc. ) and replaced them with old parts that I had no boxes for. I opned up my case to put my good parts back in, and discovered that while in transit my hard drive cage had become dislodged. In the process of thrashing around, it split my AGP slot in two, bent the cheap cards I had in there, and crushed a few transistors. It also scratched up the inside door of my case pretty good, not that that's much of a problem. There didn't seem to be any problem with the heatsink. Upon further inspection, though, something odd happened. The heatsink seemed a little harder to take off than normal, but when I finally got it off, my processer wasn't in the socket...it was on the bottom of the heatsink. I tried to put it back into the socket, but some pins were bent (specifically the ones near the corner with the arrow that you have to align to plug it into the socket) . I was able to carefully bend the pins back into place, and it now goes back into the socket....However, I'm sure that having bent pins like that wouldn't be a good thing.

I bought this processor off of someone from these boards a year or so ago - he bought it from NewEgg as a retail processor, and he sent me the invoice that NewEgg sent him when he ordered the chip. I'm not positive, but I believe retail P4's have a four year warranty or something? Is this covered by the warranty? What should I tell them happened to the chip? I'm worried that it won't work/will be unstable

 

[TehQuick]

prongs? heatsync? wtf r u talking about?

Assuming it's prongs=pins, as long as they just bent and didn't fall off, it's not that big a deal. Use something sharp to bend them them back into normal shape.

 

[Nalif]

prongs? heatsync? wtf r u talking about?

Assuming it's prongs=pins, as long as they just bent and didn't fall off, it's not that big a deal. Use something sharp to bend them them back into normal shape.

I mean...pins. And heatsink.

 

[macrospect]

Just bought a P4 3.0C 478 pin OEM processor from newegg. Apparently NewEgg does a terrible job at packing their OEM processors. Anyway when it arrived I opened the little plastick case and *hardfoam* that incased the CPU. Upon inspection I found that the pressing of the hard foam caused the processor to have three bent pins. I was very angry, and was hoping I could get them back into place without having any problems. Luckily I was able to *carefully* bend them back with a really small screwdriver. Bending pins makes me feel like they are going to break, I know there is severe stress put onto the joints where the pins connect to the actuall cpu.
Anyway I plugged it in and it seems to be working fine. I just hope no future problems arise as a result of this problem.

How many of you other guys have successfully fixed the problem of bent pins, wit ha successfull result? Were there any problems later down the road?
(Sorry if I "hijacked" this thread with my own questions)

 

[Big Worm]

How many of you other guys have successfully fixed the problem of bent pins, wit ha successfull result? Were there any problems later down the road?
(Sorry if I "hijacked" this thread with my own questions)

Relax man, I have had to bend pins back to place on probably 25 different CPU's... Just be gentle.