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bent socket pin (775)

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omega-x

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So, installing a p-d 930 into a BTX machine i accidentally bent one single pin on the socket, moved it back as much as i could to look even with everything else, but the PC only beeps loudly on boot. As far as i know it SHOULD be aligned, or it could be i shocked something doing it.
 
omega-x said:
So, installing a p-d 930 into a BTX machine i accidentally bent one single pin on the socket, moved it back as much as i could to look even with everything else, but the PC only beeps loudly on boot. As far as i know it SHOULD be aligned, or it could be i shocked something doing it.
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I do believe you are screwed. It may not be making good contact with it's pad anymore, and it may never again.
 
ryan_975 said:
I do believe you are screwed. It may not be making good contact with it's pad anymore, and it may never again.
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I recently dumpster dove a 2.0ghz gateway computer. Before i went through the trouble of lugging the thing out to my car, i wanted to know what the CPU was, so i opened her up and pulled at the heatsink. The CPU was basically glued onto the bottom and came up with the heatsink. Being impatient, i twised till it popped off and i lost a pin in the process. i found some real thin wire, stuck it in the corresponding socket, used wire snips to cut it as close to the top of the socket as i could, pushed the CPU back into the socket (had to push a little because the wire was sticking up a little bit high) and the baby fired right up. Upgraded my wife's uncle from a 800mhz athlon with 256 mb and 20gb HD to a free 2.0A with 512mb, dvd and cdrw, and a 120gb HD.

point of the story, if you can't get the thing to fire up anways, a last resort might be to just twist the pin off and do what i did. Last resort though. It could just as easily be the memory or the MB causing the problem.
 
ive done that several times because my amd64's always stuck to my xp90. but i dont think thats going to happen with a s775 cpu/mainboard.
 
vanilla_guerilla said:
ive done that several times because my amd64's always stuck to my xp90. but i dont think thats going to happen with a s775 cpu/mainboard.
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I was trying to get to that, but for some reason I coudln't get back into the forums to post a reply, but here goes.

a bent/broken pin on a CPU is a different situation than what the OP has described. LGA775 CPU's don't have pins, but instead pads that rest on spring tensioned lands (basically a curved metal wire) inside the socket. If he bent one of those than he'll probably never get it back to the right shape to make proper contact on the CPU 's pad.
 
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