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I've got a COR i7 something k whatever the point is
it's an LGA 2011 chip here that is perfectly good but unfortunately isn't
booting in this x79 Delux ASUS board and
it's not the fault of the board somehow at some point I hope you guys can see it
here but right there there is a bent pin
now the advantage to LGA chips is that
the CPUs themselves are much less fragile than they used to be but back
when pins were on the bottom of CPUs or on AMD CPUs where they still are it was
a lot easier to repair them and you could even use little tricks like
uh putting the St of the pin or even another piece of metal into a socket and
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
lot trickier so we're going to give it a
shot here let's see how much I can zoom in and show you guys that damaged spot
right in the middle of the frame there there's one pin that's either broken or
bent it's hard for me to even tell so I've got my tools handy here first up is
a standard pin or needle you're going to want one that's reasonably fine okay I
got a pink one second is you're going to want some kind of a magnifying glass so
you can actually see what you're doing and then third is you are going to want
an excellent light source so in my case I'll be going with an iPhone propped up
between the PCI SL e slots so here we go now the way these
pins work is they're kind of like little Springs so uh here you can see that they
actually have a flat portion let me just see if I can even get in
there they have kind of a flat portion here at the bottom and then they end in
a little ball at the end now it looks like what's happened to our pin here
after closer examination with the magnifying glass is the ball on the end
has broken off but that doesn't mean that it's necessarily done for we may be
able to bend the pin back into to a
position where the rest of it so not the pad at the end but the rest of it the
stump of it can make contact with the pad on the bottom of the CPU so that's
going to be our goal here so what we're going to do is we're going to use very
delicately this pin being careful not to damage the ones around it mind you if we
do it's a dead board already um although I think ASUS can do socket repair for a
fee but this is an engineering sample board so there's no warranty so uh we're
just going to kind of go for the Gusto here and we're going to try to bend that
pin into such a position that it can make
contact with its corresponding pad on the bottom of the CPU
here so I think I got it by uh cuz the
the pin has a couple of kinks in it so it kind of goes this way and then back
and then up to the head so what I did was because we're missing the head now
is I I bent it up and then I bent this
one up a little bit so hopefully that stub of the pin is now in the same
position where the head would have been so it can make contact now you can see it still
looks a little funny but the only way to know for sure unfortunately is to fire
up a CPU and find out if she posts now this isn't the kind of thing that I
actually recommend doing because I have no way of guaranteeing that you wouldn't
kill your CPU by doing it but uh hey
there the line is Tech tips so we like to live
dangerously all right so it's Moment of Truth time I've gone ahead and built up
the test bench here hopefully I wired it all up correctly let's just see what
happens okay there we go so it is powering up but this was normal we
expected that let's see if we get anything on the
display no way ha got it look at
that ch 7 4930k new CPU installed it worked we got
it well uh there you go guys as uh as
ghetto as the methodology may have been that is how I go about fixing pins on
LGA sockets I've actually done it a number of times this one I had already
worked on for about uh 15 minutes before I tried it tonight but that was when I
had a much thicker pin um and I also
didn't really have a great light source I didn't have a magnifying glass so I
was able to do a bit of a better job this time and uh we've got it up and
running so that's fantastic Salvage to motherboard $300 motherboard sure beats
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