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I've got a COR i7 something k whatever the point is

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it's an LGA 2011 chip here that is perfectly good but unfortunately isn't

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booting in this x79 Delux ASUS board and

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it's not the fault of the board somehow at some point I hope you guys can see it

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here but right there there is a bent pin

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now the advantage to LGA chips is that

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the CPUs themselves are much less fragile than they used to be but back

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when pins were on the bottom of CPUs or on AMD CPUs where they still are it was

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a lot easier to repair them and you could even use little tricks like

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uh putting the St of the pin or even another piece of metal into a socket and

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as long as it would make contact a lot of the time you could get your CPU working again well LGA 2011 repair is a

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lot trickier so we're going to give it a

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shot here let's see how much I can zoom in and show you guys that damaged spot

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right in the middle of the frame there there's one pin that's either broken or

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bent it's hard for me to even tell so I've got my tools handy here first up is

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a standard pin or needle you're going to want one that's reasonably fine okay I

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got a pink one second is you're going to want some kind of a magnifying glass so

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you can actually see what you're doing and then third is you are going to want

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an excellent light source so in my case I'll be going with an iPhone propped up

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between the PCI SL e slots so here we go now the way these

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pins work is they're kind of like little Springs so uh here you can see that they

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actually have a flat portion let me just see if I can even get in

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there they have kind of a flat portion here at the bottom and then they end in

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a little ball at the end now it looks like what's happened to our pin here

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after closer examination with the magnifying glass is the ball on the end

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has broken off but that doesn't mean that it's necessarily done for we may be

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able to bend the pin back into to a

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position where the rest of it so not the pad at the end but the rest of it the

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stump of it can make contact with the pad on the bottom of the CPU so that's

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going to be our goal here so what we're going to do is we're going to use very

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delicately this pin being careful not to damage the ones around it mind you if we

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do it's a dead board already um although I think ASUS can do socket repair for a

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fee but this is an engineering sample board so there's no warranty so uh we're

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just going to kind of go for the Gusto here and we're going to try to bend that

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pin into such a position that it can make

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contact with its corresponding pad on the bottom of the CPU

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here so I think I got it by uh cuz the

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the pin has a couple of kinks in it so it kind of goes this way and then back

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and then up to the head so what I did was because we're missing the head now

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is I I bent it up and then I bent this

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one up a little bit so hopefully that stub of the pin is now in the same

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position where the head would have been so it can make contact now you can see it still

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looks a little funny but the only way to know for sure unfortunately is to fire

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up a CPU and find out if she posts now this isn't the kind of thing that I

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actually recommend doing because I have no way of guaranteeing that you wouldn't

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kill your CPU by doing it but uh hey

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there the line is Tech tips so we like to live

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dangerously all right so it's Moment of Truth time I've gone ahead and built up

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the test bench here hopefully I wired it all up correctly let's just see what

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happens okay there we go so it is powering up but this was normal we

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expected that let's see if we get anything on the

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display no way ha got it look at

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that ch 7 4930k new CPU installed it worked we got

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it well uh there you go guys as uh as

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ghetto as the methodology may have been that is how I go about fixing pins on

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LGA sockets I've actually done it a number of times this one I had already

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worked on for about uh 15 minutes before I tried it tonight but that was when I

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had a much thicker pin um and I also

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didn't really have a great light source I didn't have a magnifying glass so I

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was able to do a bit of a better job this time and uh we've got it up and

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running so that's fantastic Salvage to motherboard $300 motherboard sure beats

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uh sure beats buying a new one so thanks for watching guys like this video if you

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