now this isn't something that i wanted to do
it's more the kind of thing that i'm being forced to do
so this right here is one of the zeon
platinum 8180 10
000 processors from our six workstations one
CPU project and i dropped it i didn't realize it was
broken at the time but i knocked it off the desk and a cursory look at it showed
me that it was probably okay and it booted in the motherboard
that is until i realized one of the memory channels wasn't working and the
CPU had a bloomin dent in the side of it
so out of desperation i emailed my good friend steven burke over at gamersnexus
to ask him what to do and he said well
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the video description oh there it is oh my god how am i gonna
get this out
sweet so before i show you guys how i plan to repair this
very expensive and very damaged CPU i've got
to get my test bench prepped to even show you guys what exactly is the
problem with it right now because the thing does actually work
at least the last time that i tried it um mostly sort of so first we're gonna
need a different motherboard we're going to need one that uses the
lga 3647 socket
and this one hopefully still works
someone didn't put it away properly and there's no socket cover on it actually
does look okay so we're going to go ahead and throw this on the bench
and then we will go from there
one small step that i sort of missed a little bit here
this one oh come on just sure no what
one that's right sure wait yes good cool okay uh all right
wait what what the hell oh crap all right that wasn't so hard and
look at that it slides right down the heatsink fins and these two screws
are what actually put enough pressure on the CPU in the socket to ensure that all
those contact pads are making contact
with all the pins inside
so you know what we're going to start with just one stick in dim slot a1
and see if we can even get that to go
because i haven't tested this since the well last time i tested it
let's go over here oh come on now
is it dented
if this doesn't do anything there's kind of a chance we have no video at all
right now so i'm legitimately very nervous
i can't remember where it is
well no it's like got to be on here somewhere there it is
what what
is that
all right all right all right i get it the working theory right now because we
can't see any physical damage on the outside is that somewhere in here
something kind of lifted away so
i figure if i put some glue in there
and clamp it down
maybe it'll stick together well enough that it'll
work again bonds wood stone metal ceramic foam
glass and more i think this is this falls squarely in
the and more category so we're going to use this finishing
nail because we didn't find anything else lying around we are going to
kind of jam it in there this is really stupid this is not gonna work i think
the best thing that can happen at this point is for this video to never see the
light of day and trust me this hurts me at least as
much as it hurts you
yep you guys got it right
this is what's happening
hold on connect extra set of hands no i'm good
just hold still a little CPU promise this won't hurt a bit
okay oh boy
well let's leave that for a little bit
how long does gorilla glue want to set one to two hours
we don't have one to two hours so we'll give it a little bit here
okay so here we go
impossible to say if that's gonna make any difference
at least until we install it
everything we do from here on out david is just to satisfy our own curiosity
because there's no video here
all right i'm not even gonna bother putting the fan on the CPU because like
it's not going to heat up if it doesn't turn on
just for fun i'm gonna pull the cmos battery really don't think any of this
is gonna get me anywhere i'm gonna try a black memory slot this time
knowing fully well that this isn't going to work
i'm going to try another board hopefully you let me down
it's like that pure optimism that's keeping me
going right now here i go again putting this thing in
okay now this board
is not even like close to fitting on this test bench
it's not quite as good vibes if this wasn't completely just a waste
of my time i wouldn't be so frustrated right now
i don't know i mean we've come this far we might as well put another
CPU on the other side maybe this is a dual socket board that doesn't boot with
just one CPU i i don't know
all right
i give up check out the link in the video
depression get description off shattered hopes and dreams today
after you left i thought Jake was using this with
unraid before and he might have set it up so that the
onboard video is the default and so i went and grabbed the vga
monitor and we posted
it it's posted if this works
i don't have to go crawling back to Intel asking for
another one to finish six workstations one CPU
i wasn't recording audio i'm sorry no audio no not at all no no no no well
camera is going but it's enough okay everything
looks normal it works well uh we don't know
yet because remember it already worked at one point with five
RAM channels so i've got to load it up Jake can i have the other uh RAM by any
chance thank you
i don't know if i deserve a medal
or like a swift kick in the ass
it's kind of hard to get this stick in here ah
because of the like angle of this what is going on
like everything about this whole setup is so jank
come on baby what do you want Colton
i'm trying to find out if i have to spend 10 grand replacing this thing or
not
call somebody yeah thanks
did you no seriously did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in
okay what is it doing hurry up
can i see the post screen please
where is it
it works but it only works about the same as before
so you can see here we've got 327 gigs of RAM instead of 364.
so the good news is we are booted seemingly stably into our os here
with all 56 of our CPU cores detected
and well you know
11 12 of our memory also detected but the bad news is that
our attempt to fix the broken memory channel did not
in fact succeed so
hopefully if nothing else this was an entertaining run through some of the
stuff that we would normally do behind the scenes over here
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disappointed that it doesn't work or any better but on the other hand i'm
glad it still works at all maybe let me know in the comments below
or whatever should we just go ahead with
five channel memory or should we like pony up and get a new one
i really don't want to