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Did I destroy my mobo?

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  • Power Supplies
  • Motherboards
  • Thermal Compound
  • Intel i5
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July 12, 2014 4:24:10 AM

I'm so stupid. I decided to clean my PC and check the condition of the thermal paste on my CPU (i5 2500 + stock cooler). Unfortunately, I slighty "bent" one of the socket pins - that's why I'm stupid. So I plugged everything (without the graphic card) and it works BUT the PSU started to make some silent strange noise (maybe "coil whining"). But it works, I did some tests (OCCT) no BSOD, errors etc. Is it safe to use this PC or it can crash/explode/etc any moment?
What's more, when I plug this PSU to my second rig (i7 4790k, ASRock Z97 Extreme4, R9 280x) I can't hear any "coil whining". So I assume it's not the PSU. Thanks for the help.

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July 12, 2014 4:34:09 AM

You shouldn't pull the cpu out of its socket . You should've cleaned it while its still in it's socket.

Ifv you bent a pin then doing this but re-bent it back to straight and it works OK then that should be fine. You need to check that the pin is fine under a magnifying glass. It has to be still in the motherboard firmly, straight and not lean towards any of its neighbouring pins. If not, you need to rma the mobo - get a non-warranty repair. They'll put a new socket in.

Sounds like you didn't fix the pin 100%. They only straighten properly about 10% of the time.
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July 12, 2014 6:03:17 AM

i7Baby said:
You shouldn't pull the cpu out of its socket . You should've cleaned it while its still in it's socket.

Ifv you bent a pin then doing this but re-bent it back to straight and it works OK then that should be fine. You need to check that the pin is fine under a magnifying glass. It has to be still in the motherboard firmly, straight and not lean towards any of its neighbouring pins. If not, you need to rma the mobo - get a non-warranty repair. They'll put a new socket in.

Sounds like you didn't fix the pin 100%. They only straighten properly about 10% of the time.


Thanks. You actually made me repair it :)  I took a needle and that did the trick (I hope - at least the sound disappeared) :) 
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