broken pin fix

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stealthy123

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I snapped a pin on my old 3200+ a64 and thought I was f'ed completely.
I snapped a pin from an old 462 thunderbird that burnt up.
put it in the hole in the mobo that the broken off pin would have gone then I installed the cpu as I would any other.
has been running solid for 24 hours now.

was shocked it worked.

anyone think of a reason I should worry?
 
stealthy123 said:
I snapped a pin on my old 3200+ a64 and thought I was f'ed completely.
I snapped a pin from an old 462 thunderbird that burnt up.
put it in the hole in the mobo that the broken off pin would have gone then I installed the cpu as I would any other.
has been running solid for 24 hours now.

was shocked it worked.

anyone think of a reason I should worry?
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My guess is it was a don't care voltage or ground pin. I did the same a few weeks ago on a socket 478 chip that still works. We were lucky.
 
Yeah, I think a lot (almost half) of pins on CPUs serve no purpose and are just there for added security. In addition to this, a lot of the pins are also for grounding, so losing one or two won't have much effect.
 
That's not true completely. I have known people who have broken ONE pin and now their computer wont turn on.
 
I really don't understand how people break pins in the first place.

I mean what could you possibly do to the pins to make them snap. I find them to be pretty sturdy, especialyl on my 3200 venice.
 
You're one lucky guy. Honestly though, CPU's shouldn't be held for more than what, 15 seconds? Mine spent about 4 seconds in my hand before it was in it's socket. Don't handle those parts. Heh.
 
....did you actually look up which pin was broken? I think that would answer a lot of questions....

My $00.02 - B.B.S.
 
I didn't break the pin my dad did when he was trying to force it into the socket with the lever still down. He bent it all to hell then my trying to bend it back snapped it.


How can i look up which pin it was?

on athlon64 there are two angled corners and then two that are L shaped pin arrangement and more specifically it was the one next to the gold spot in the corner on the outer edge on an L corner

where can i get a pin schematic?
 
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