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Salvageable bent pins?

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I am on eBay, up late, and I am looking at cheap "untested" LGA 1155 motherboards- to test my luck. Anyway, this guy has a couple of these nice (ish, they're at least decent midrange ones) and they look pretty clean, they just all have bent pins. Anyway, I am wondering if you all think that this one (from what I can see, least severe bend) is easily salvageable, given some time and patience, as I have fixed many-a AMD CPU pins, so would this be doable?

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Here's another one of his boards:

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Haswellbeast said:
I am on eBay, up late, and I am looking at cheap "untested" LGA 1155 motherboards- to test my luck. Anyway, this guy has a couple of these nice (ish, they're at least decent midrange ones) and they look pretty clean, they just all have bent pins. Anyway, I am wondering if you all think that this one (from what I can see, least severe bend) is easily salvageable, given some time and patience, as I have fixed many-a AMD CPU pins, so would this be doable?

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You can fix pins but not the one in the picture, it appears there at least 3 that can't be fixed. they seem to be bent 180 degrees. slight bents can be fixed and I've done it.
 
If you really want to dig, you can look up the LGA1155 pinouts to see if the bent pins are important. If the bent pins are Vss (ground) or NC (not connected), you can basically break them off as long as the remaining pins are making good contact. You can probably lose one or two Vcc pins depending on how things are wired internally. Anything else you need to straighten enough to fix, and the pins in the first picture look pretty bad. It's hard to see but if the pins in the second picture are just bent over rather than broken, you might be able to use something like a credit card to get things started, and an empty mechanical pencil to straighten.
 
I have tried to repair mobo pins, twice. recommend a magnifying glass, and a fine tipped needle. And be VERY gentle. Under correcting is better than over correcting.

The first one I did worked great. The second one did not work out : (
 
As others stated for such a thin bit of metal any total rotation of more than 90deg is asking for trouble.

In other words, if a pin is bent roughly up to 45deg from the original axis then there’s a chance to bend it back without going past point of fatigue / breakage. However, in the pics supplied it looks like the pins are bent almost 90d so trying to bend them back will probably not work.

With the boards shown it wouldn’t be worth it, even if getting them for free or unless you really want some donor boards to hone your skills.
 
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