Bent motherboard pins fixing

xalyy

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Hello! I just building a new server computer, these are the parts:

2x Intel Xeon E5-2670
Asus Z9PA-D8
Sapphire RX 460 4GB
2x Cooler Master Hyper Evo 212
8x Samsung 8GB DDR3 1333 MHz ECC REG RDIMM PC3L-10600R RAM
500GB Samsung Evo 850
Be quiet Silent Base 600
Evga Supernova GQ750

So some things went wrong I put too much thermal paste on the cpu and a just in a little area it leaked on the socket at two points, at the top and at the bottom, I managed to clean up some of the paste but on the cleaning process I bent a few pins on the socket mainly at the top. So here comes the problem 1 ram slot isnt working if I put a stick of ram there then it wont post bios ( Error code b7 ), if I remove it everything else seems working fine, 2 cpu detected 7 other sticks detected, managed to install windows and run a few test, thermals were good no crash or anything. Sometimes I get graphical glitches at boot and at input change but it is very random like if the input restarts then it is normal again. I assume these two problem is caused by the bent pins? I would like to ask help about this because I could try to fix the bent pins but I don't want to do it unless it will fix the ram issue and the graphical glitches mainly the ram issue. Are the socket pins are in contact with the ram sockets? Because then the answer should be yes.
Thanks for the help!
 
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It's too late, I was going to say get it professionally repaired, but since you've done it yourself, I don't think you can fix it any more.

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it's hard to answer- yes some of the pins are connected to the RAM subsystem. but there are a couple thousand pins- we don't know what you bent. and fixing bent pins is requires skill and a little bit of luck. I've had some success with using the end of a mechanical pencil to carefully bend pins back, but just as often failure.
 

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Hmm, so what do you think should I try it? What do you mean couple thousands I mean I didn't counted them but it seems like there are only maybe a few hundred at max.
 

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Okay, today I tried it I tried to fix all the pins best as possibly I can and looks like so far the artifacting gone so I at least did something but the ram problem still remaining. Looks like I have to get a new board later or would that work if I would just swap 2 working slots with 2x16Gb ram? Or that is not advised? Thanks.

 

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I dont think they would RMA for bent pins :p
 

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I know but I don't have money to buy another very expensive dual socket motherboard I'm not even american so I can't get the dirt cheap deals from ebay :p
 

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It's too late, I was going to say get it professionally repaired, but since you've done it yourself, I don't think you can fix it any more.
 
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