Broken pin on P4

[Ferrari355]

I had to take my mobo out to rma it, and when I took my P4 out I somehow broke one of the pins. I heard that some of the pins don't matter and the cpu will still work without them.

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This is the broken pin, is it one of the ones the cpu can work without?

 

[Mingon]

I have a working 2.6 with 6 missing pins !

 

[Ferrari355]

Originally posted by: Mingon
I have a working 2.6 with 6 missing pins !

Then hopefully mine will still work.

 

[stevty2889]

I've got a 1.6 with a broken pin, and it works fine, hopefuly you'll be lucky, and won't be missing one that is esential.

 

[Sc4freak]

Is it possible to run with broken pins? I never knew that.

 

[stevty2889]

Some of the pins aren't used, and some are connected to features that are disabled, for example one of the pins on the northwood is for hyper threading. It was there on the older northwoods that had hyperthreading disabled, so even if the pin was broken, it wouldn't affect the chip.

 

[jiffylube1024]

More importantly a fair number of the pins are for supplying power to the CPU, so losing a pin or two (or five) will still result in a working CPU (often).

Intel should have a chart or map of some kind on their website of what each and every pin does on their CPU's.

Find out what that pin does!

 

[Spikesoldier]

you have a 93/478 chance of it being a vital pin.

pretty good odds of it still working if you ask me.

 

[Jojo1971]

cut a piece of bare solid wire (small enough) and and insert it into the socket where the broken pin is supposed to be going into..make sure there is a small part sticking out that will be in in contact with the processor when it gets inserted..so far this method worked for me...