Phenom 945 broken pin help

[hmarcus]

I installed the cpu, but had to remove the heatsink that came with it. Upon removing it, the pre-applied thermal paste adhered to the chip, bending three of the pins and breaking one. I managed to straighten all of the rest and replace the broken pin by taking of an old pin from a Sempron CPU and placing it in the hole where it would have gone in the mobo. When I booted it up, it seems it should work because the power indicator was white rather than amber or blinking amber, or blinking amber and beeping. So my question is, did I F up my cpu that much or did I ruin my mobo with all of the back and forth trying to get the cpu installed properly. I always grounded myself on the metal.
Thanks

 

[mdd1963]

Breaking any pins is very bad....; the odds of the pin being essentially unused are very slim indeed.

Time to bite the bullet and order the Z68/i5-2500k combo you really wanted anyway!

 

[kilo_17]

Have you tried using it yet?

 

[hmarcus]

Have you tried using it yet?

Yep, I hoped it wasn't essential, but it was. It just gave me an amber power indicator. I stuck some copper wire from an Ethernet cable and then a pin from another proc, but the furthest I've gotten was a white (good) indicator, but nothing else worked. It didn't boot.

 

[kilo_17]

Ah that really stinks

 

[hmarcus]

Ah that really stinks

Tell me about it. I just gave up and bought a new one. Thanks for the ideas though.

 

[henydiah]

May be this can help ?
www.blog.davidkaspar.com/archives/2006/09/fixing-a-processor-with-a-broken-pin.php

 

[hmarcus]

May be this can help ?
www.blog.davidkaspar.com/archives/2006/09/fixing-a-processor-with-a-broken-pin.php

Sorry, I can't seem to open that link

 

[henydiah]

Apologize me , http://blog.davidkaspar.com/archives...broken-pin.php

 

[gonintendo]

http://blog.davidkaspar.com/archives/2006/09/fixing-a-processor-with-a-broken-pin.php

 

[gonintendo]

The link doesn't seem very useful, btw, just felt like putting up a working one.