Dead Tbred B?

[rommelrommel]

Well, I sold a Tbred-B to a guy on another forum. There's absolutely no physical damage to the packaging, but one pin was slightly bent he said. So, he went ahead and straightened the pin without asking me what I thought he should do. Then, he hooks it up, and his board won't post. CMOS cleared, mobo jumpers set to default. So, he thinks the CPU is dead, but I tested it last thing before it went out the door. Could straightening a slightly bent pin have killed it?

 

[KennyH]

I doubt it, unless the pin was broken off :Q

 

[pillage2001]

How did he straighten the pins???

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

Originally posted by: pillage2001
How did he straighten the pins???

exactly,
if he wasnt grounded before straightening the pins (or even touching it for that matter) electrostatic shock can kill a cpu in an instant
and it doesnt even have to be visible (the shock)

if i got a fubared prodcut (lke a pine bent on a cpu...!!) then i wouldnt touch it at all until contacting the person i bought it from...otherwise i would technically be held liable cuz i screwd around with the product...so anything resulting could have been my fault

ask him how bent it was

 

[RyanM]

What sort of packaging did you ship it to him in? Perhaps he bent the pin himself. Maybe he forgot to mount the heatsink correctly and fried the chip. As long as you have some proof the product was working beforehand, he's got nothing on you.

Before I do any transaction, I always document everything. Photos of it, photos of the shipping material, etc.

 

[LastRide]

I bought a 2.4B off a guy and he never put the foam in the plastic CPU case OEM.He did use bubblewrap but the CPU was sliding around in the plastic case.I had to straighten out 8-10 bent pins:Q.I used tweasers and magnifying glass.It worked out good and everything went well thank god.The chip does like 3.4 - 3.5GHz so I was hoping it wasn't cooked.I am running it at 3.3GHz default voltage

 

[rommelrommel]

Originally posted by: MachFive
What sort of packaging did you ship it to him in? Perhaps he bent the pin himself. Maybe he forgot to mount the heatsink correctly and fried the chip. As long as you have some proof the product was working beforehand, he's got nothing on you.

Before I do any transaction, I always document everything. Photos of it, photos of the shipping material, etc.

I just talked to the guy on the phone and he sounds like a nice guy :-/ I don't wanna tell him he's fuxored...

I'll have to ask him how he fixed the pins, he said one pin was bent about 30-45 degrees... not much, but I'm sure, and a friend of mine that was sitting here as I packaged it is too, that it was perfect.

He's taking it over to his gf's house to see if it's a compatablity problem perhaps, his old athlon works still so he didn't mess up the mobo or anything.

The mobo is a Soltek SL-75DRV4 which is a piece of crap it seems, but I can't imagine that it won't recognize a XP1700+

 

[RyanM]

Well, if I remember reading right, a bent pin on a processor == death. They're manufactured to much higher tolerances than, say, the kind on the back of a floppy drive. I could be wrong though. I've never bent a pin on a CPU to find out. ;-)

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

i guess it could depend on how the pin was bent (like if it was bent enough to sever contact with wathever it makes contact with lol)
even a small "chip" could make it fubar probably

either that, or its a compatibility issue?
let him go and check

 

[rommelrommel]

Problem solved, his POS board doesn'y recognize XP's, the processor is fine, whew!

 

[RyanM]

Yay! Seriously, that's gotta be a load off your back. heh. Nothing worse than fearing you sent a customer a dud, or that he may be trying to f*ck you.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

yeah lol
good to hear