Strange CPU

[roninblade]

Okey everytime i boot up now for some reason it always says new cpu installed and wont let me continue without loading the setup defaults in the BIOS, and i cannot overclock any ideas? THX edit: sorry btw i have a P4P800 and a 2.4C CPU

 

[tom slick]

Can you give some history on the system?

 

[roninblade]

well i found the problem, it seems that 3 pins were severly bent on the bottom and in the process of fixing the bent pins one fell off, so it looks like im going to have to send the damn thing in

 

[farscapesg1]

Please tell me you aren't returning a cpu that you broke the pin off yourself

 

[roninblade]

no im not im returning the cpu that the motherboard broke off

 

[potroast]

warranty doesn't cover bent/broken pins.

 

[roninblade]

well according to intel it seems they do

 

[ziddey]

if it came bent and he tried to save intel the hassle by trying to bend them back, it seems fair

 

[roninblade]

lol u live in Ithica, i know where that is, i was born in Olean

 

[ziddey]

lol u live in Ithica, i know where that is, i was born in Olean

lol!!!

 

[potroast]

if it came bent and he tried to save intel the hassle by trying to bend them back, it seems fair

nope... if it came bent from intel (almost impossible) then you return it... you do not try to bend it back, thus breaking it and waiting a few months to rma it.

 

[ZenOps]

You can try to RMA it. Intel has been known to RMA bent-pin processors before.

Its perfectly possible a few pins were weak and just buckled for some reason. Usually Intel can physically tell if its been abused by the bent-pin pattern, if its on the extremeties on the processor, most likely they will not RMA it because you either dropped it or sat on it.

But if its a bent or broken pin inside other sets of pins or near the center, its usually an indicator of a legit RMA.

 

[roninblade]

only 1 pin is broken off and 2 are severly bent.