Can I FIX this $10,000 CPU??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,625 words · ~8 min read
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now this isn't something that i wanted to do
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it's more the kind of thing that i'm being forced to do
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so this right here is one of the zeon
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platinum 8180 10
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000 processors from our six workstations one
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CPU project and i dropped it i didn't realize it was
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broken at the time but i knocked it off the desk and a cursory look at it showed
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me that it was probably okay and it booted in the motherboard
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that is until i realized one of the memory channels wasn't working and the
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CPU had a bloomin dent in the side of it
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so out of desperation i emailed my good friend steven burke over at gamersnexus
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to ask him what to do and he said well
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here's something you could try and if it doesn't work well at least you'll get a
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bunch of views on youtube while you're breaking it
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so if things go wrong today you know who to
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blame
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the video description oh there it is oh my god how am i gonna
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get this out
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sweet so before i show you guys how i plan to repair this
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very expensive and very damaged CPU i've got
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to get my test bench prepped to even show you guys what exactly is the
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problem with it right now because the thing does actually work
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at least the last time that i tried it um mostly sort of so first we're gonna
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need a different motherboard we're going to need one that uses the
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lga 3647 socket
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and this one hopefully still works
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someone didn't put it away properly and there's no socket cover on it actually
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does look okay so we're going to go ahead and throw this on the bench
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and then we will go from there
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one small step that i sort of missed a little bit here
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this one oh come on just sure no what
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one that's right sure wait yes good cool okay uh all right
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wait what what the hell oh crap all right that wasn't so hard and
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look at that it slides right down the heatsink fins and these two screws
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are what actually put enough pressure on the CPU in the socket to ensure that all
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those contact pads are making contact
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with all the pins inside
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so you know what we're going to start with just one stick in dim slot a1
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and see if we can even get that to go
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because i haven't tested this since the well last time i tested it
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let's go over here oh come on now
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is it dented
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if this doesn't do anything there's kind of a chance we have no video at all
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right now so i'm legitimately very nervous
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i can't remember where it is
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well no it's like got to be on here somewhere there it is
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what what
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is that
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all right all right all right i get it the working theory right now because we
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can't see any physical damage on the outside is that somewhere in here
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something kind of lifted away so
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i figure if i put some glue in there
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and clamp it down
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maybe it'll stick together well enough that it'll
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work again bonds wood stone metal ceramic foam
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glass and more i think this is this falls squarely in
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the and more category so we're going to use this finishing
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nail because we didn't find anything else lying around we are going to
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kind of jam it in there this is really stupid this is not gonna work i think
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the best thing that can happen at this point is for this video to never see the
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light of day and trust me this hurts me at least as
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much as it hurts you
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yep you guys got it right
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this is what's happening
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hold on connect extra set of hands no i'm good
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just hold still a little CPU promise this won't hurt a bit
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okay oh boy
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well let's leave that for a little bit
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how long does gorilla glue want to set one to two hours
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we don't have one to two hours so we'll give it a little bit here
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okay so here we go
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impossible to say if that's gonna make any difference
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at least until we install it
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everything we do from here on out david is just to satisfy our own curiosity
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because there's no video here
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all right i'm not even gonna bother putting the fan on the CPU because like
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it's not going to heat up if it doesn't turn on
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just for fun i'm gonna pull the cmos battery really don't think any of this
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is gonna get me anywhere i'm gonna try a black memory slot this time
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knowing fully well that this isn't going to work
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i'm going to try another board hopefully you let me down
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it's like that pure optimism that's keeping me
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going right now here i go again putting this thing in
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okay now this board
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is not even like close to fitting on this test bench
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it's not quite as good vibes if this wasn't completely just a waste
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of my time i wouldn't be so frustrated right now
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i don't know i mean we've come this far we might as well put another
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CPU on the other side maybe this is a dual socket board that doesn't boot with
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just one CPU i i don't know
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all right
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i give up check out the link in the video
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depression get description off shattered hopes and dreams today
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after you left i thought Jake was using this with
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unraid before and he might have set it up so that the
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onboard video is the default and so i went and grabbed the vga
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monitor and we posted
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it it's posted if this works
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i don't have to go crawling back to Intel asking for
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another one to finish six workstations one CPU
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i wasn't recording audio i'm sorry no audio no not at all no no no no well
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camera is going but it's enough okay everything
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looks normal it works well uh we don't know
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yet because remember it already worked at one point with five
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RAM channels so i've got to load it up Jake can i have the other uh RAM by any
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chance thank you
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i don't know if i deserve a medal
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or like a swift kick in the ass
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it's kind of hard to get this stick in here ah
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because of the like angle of this what is going on
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like everything about this whole setup is so jank
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come on baby what do you want Colton
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i'm trying to find out if i have to spend 10 grand replacing this thing or
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not
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call somebody yeah thanks
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did you no seriously did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in
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okay what is it doing hurry up
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can i see the post screen please
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where is it
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it works but it only works about the same as before
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so you can see here we've got 327 gigs of RAM instead of 364.
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so the good news is we are booted seemingly stably into our os here
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with all 56 of our CPU cores detected
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and well you know
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11 12 of our memory also detected but the bad news is that
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our attempt to fix the broken memory channel did not
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in fact succeed so
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hopefully if nothing else this was an entertaining run through some of the
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stuff that we would normally do behind the scenes over here
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yeah so we're on location in my garage to
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community forum which you should totally join on the one hand i'm like really
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disappointed that it doesn't work or any better but on the other hand i'm
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glad it still works at all maybe let me know in the comments below
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or whatever should we just go ahead with
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five channel memory or should we like pony up and get a new one
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i really don't want to