- Dec 12, 2008
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Last week I was cleaning out my pc from some dust that has gathered and wanted to clean arounder the cpu socket as well so I took out the cpu, and something possessed me to run my finger over the very fine looking pin array in the socket to se what it'd feel like to the touch. I didn't expect them to be that fragile but right away I saw a few pins lifted out of position. Nevertheless I put everything back together and tried booting but nothing happens. The cpurpose fan spins up to 100% and it doesn't even post or give out any beeps. So my next step was to try to move the bent pins around, which I did but that didn't go well either as I've broken off two pin heads already. I've tried to elongate the pins with a slender nose tweezer pair but no matter how much I try I can't get it to boot. These are some pictures of the pins, it's hard to tell from a distance and still hard from upclose but you can see the damage in the close up shots better. I'll annotate each pic for your convinence.
Normal view of shafts of pin array in a corner of my chip that's not bent
Normal view of heads of pin array, notice how perfectly square they are here.
Bent pin shafts, hard to see but it's the two pins in the middle, this is a zoom of the "Main" area as labeled in the first large scale image.
View of bent heads, notice pin on the left is missing a head altogether
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I can't really get a new board at this point since this is an x58 board with 1366 socket, and those are exceedingly rare and expensive as I found out. I'd have to replace the cpu along with it but I'm reluctant to drop $300 on something that can potentially be fixed.
I'm looking into replacing a socket myself, I've got a decent heat gun lying around and have some high temp probes for my thermo, it's just that ordering this socket from China will take about a month and I need the comp for work (programmer). I've been writing code on paper this whole week so I don't waste time, but as you can imagine debugging is quite difficult
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In any case can I do anything to fix this without replacing the socket?
Normal view of shafts of pin array in a corner of my chip that's not bent Normal view of heads of pin array, notice how perfectly square they are here. Bent pin shafts, hard to see but it's the two pins in the middle, this is a zoom of the "Main" area as labeled in the first large scale image. View of bent heads, notice pin on the left is missing a head altogetheranonymous photo sharing
I can't really get a new board at this point since this is an x58 board with 1366 socket, and those are exceedingly rare and expensive as I found out. I'd have to replace the cpu along with it but I'm reluctant to drop $300 on something that can potentially be fixed.
I'm looking into replacing a socket myself, I've got a decent heat gun lying around and have some high temp probes for my thermo, it's just that ordering this socket from China will take about a month and I need the comp for work (programmer). I've been writing code on paper this whole week so I don't waste time, but as you can imagine debugging is quite difficult
.In any case can I do anything to fix this without replacing the socket?
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