2 CPU socket pins holes burnt

betty2014

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Hi all,
This PC assembled by my husband ans worked perfectly for me than 2 years! It all started when he tried to clean the PC and switch on, the fans, lights worked but there was no beep abd imagein monitor! He then felt the computer was heating up so quickly. He examined the mobo with the PSU and noted that the fan was dead. Replaced the PSU but still ur didn't boot, no beep. But, the power is on, fans lights etc work. Tried to reset CMos - nothing.
He removed the CPU and noticed that 1 pin was missing and another pin fell in his hand! The socket had 2 pin holes burnt !! There's is another mobo which we have and that too is Asus . Is it possible to replace the burnt socket only or the whole mobo can be replaced?
The burnt socket resds 939 and the extra mobo socket is AM2 ??

Can someone please please advice what to do.
 
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If pins fell off the CPU, the CPU is done; you need a new CPU.

If the CPU socket has burnt holes, they are probably scrap as well and I would be a little surprised if the socket was the only damage on the motherboard.

Even if it was only the socket, the sockets are surface-mount and to remove a large surface-mount socket like this, special surface-mount rework equipment is required to heat the whole sockets until the solder holding the socket melts so it can be pulled off and a new socket dropped in after cleaning the board's solder pads.

The whole procedure would be many times more expensive than a new motherboard.

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Its fried. The only thing you can do is replace the motherboard and cpu i dont believe you can replace the socket if you can im sure it would be cheaper to just buy a whole new board. And unless the socket shorted for some reason like moisture or something that got in your socket you may also have a bad power supply that caused the socket to burn out if thats the case and you buy a new motherboard and cpu and connect them to the same power supply it could just burn the new parts as well. I would just buy or build a new computer. the one you have know still use's the AM2 socket its time for an upgrade anyway.
 

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If pins fell off the CPU, the CPU is done; you need a new CPU.

If the CPU socket has burnt holes, they are probably scrap as well and I would be a little surprised if the socket was the only damage on the motherboard.

Even if it was only the socket, the sockets are surface-mount and to remove a large surface-mount socket like this, special surface-mount rework equipment is required to heat the whole sockets until the solder holding the socket melts so it can be pulled off and a new socket dropped in after cleaning the board's solder pads.

The whole procedure would be many times more expensive than a new motherboard.
 
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betty2014

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Thank you so much for replying. Very much appreciated.
So now, we had Windows 7. What motherboard would be compatible. We have a
PC : Olidata (AMD Sempron3400+ S939) - the brown one
Hard disk of 500GB
2 Ram 1GB each
Video Card : NX6200AX TD512H ( 512MB DDR2)

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We have yet another pc, which is Hp Compaq d330 uT. We put the above video card, Rams and the Hard disk, it boots but Windows 7 doesn't run...the windows "starting" and the windows 7moving dots appear then the pc restarts on its own...and the same scenario.

Any other advice ...??
 

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You will have to reinstall windows since the hard drive is trying to boot windows with the settings and drivers from your other motherboard.
 

betty2014

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Hi Dunlop0078,

If we changed our hard disk to another one of 80GB. It should be alright, to install a fresh copy?

Btw, sorry for the silly question. If, we reinstall windows on our 500GB hard disk all data, files & folders will be deleted right ? Or is there a way to keep them safe?
 

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Yes it will be deleted but you can back it up on an external hard drive a large flash drive or use a cloud service. Yes it is okay to install windows to a fresh 80gb but windows will take at least 16gb of that 80 when you download it.
 

betty2014

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Unfortunately, its not booting even the Windows 7 cd!! Limits to the intel screen, and unable to adjust the date and time, once I enter the setup. There sre two error messages, one is keyboard error and it says to change battery, changed it but no luck ! Took pff the vga card. . Then comes another msg saying "NTDLR missing. ..btw, we have put the 80Gb ...
 

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You have to choose boot from cd if you havent done that. As soon as you turn your computer that first screen should say. boot menu: F12 or a diffrent key in one of the corners or your screen that will bring you to the boot menu when your there select boot from cd.
 

betty2014

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Hi all, unfortunately we did not have internet connection these days due to the climate condition here. PC is dead still. there's a keyboard error message on the screen now. Managed to get another motherboard, will try to install a fresh copy of Windows 7 and see if it boots !!

Now the question is, if we install our old 500GB hardisk, which contains all our files,docs, photos etc, will it be required to format the hard disk when installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 ?? I don't want to lose all data and I am not in a position to back it up :(
PS: prior to installing our old 500GB, we would try to install the 80GB new HD and see whether the PC works.. and then if it works will change the HD...

Hope am not confusing too much