ACK!!! broken pins on CPU

[marcocom]

somehow while reinstalling one of my flipchips (installing my new gleaming Alpha PEP66) into my VP6 tonight, i booted to find only one processor operating.
i found that two of the pins from my P3 were in my FCPGA sockets!!
ive fished them out and they seem to have broken clean from the base.
please tell me i can fix this. if not me, somebody or some where. can i solder it? can i send it to Intel (their actually only up the street from me) and even pay to repair it?
friends, without this second processor my system (the god-rotor)is only running ACK!!!! on one single cpu. god speed... :Q

 

[MCS]

I dont think you can fix it...sorry. I've fixed up CPUs with bent pins and seen them work OK, but not snapped pins.

You might as well TRY and return it, phone them up and act stupid and they might let you get away with it 🙂

 

[jamesbond007]

Hey, there. I once bought an OEM processor.....a looooong time ago. It was a AMD K6-300Mhz CPU. When it got to my house, one of the pins was broken off completely, like yours, and a few other were bent. I ended up sending it back, since it had a 15 day warranty, and got a new one, which turned out to be ok...still had a few bent pins, but I bent them back and it was all good. Since then, I've never bought OEM parts, for I don't trust the packaging and you don't get any sort of long warranty with it. How old is the CPU? Was it OEM or retail? Most retail CPUs have a 3 year warranty. If Intel won't fix it for you, or you can't get it replaced, take it to a tech shop, where they may have some sort of small pen-welder. Then take a SMALL chunk of gold and just DOT one small one on the CPU pin spot, where it broke off. Then take the broken pin and hold it on, it may stay or not. This is just an idea and I have no clue whether it will work or not. Good luck to you man.