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Fixing a Pin UPDATED PLEASE READ

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trigun500

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Ok here is my situation. One of my employers has an AMD X2 3800. When he first got (a while back) it had a bent pin. He tried to return it to newegg but they just sent it back to him. Now he might sell me this processor REALLY cheap becuase he doesn't know you can fix bent pins. Do you think it would be worth the risk and try to fix it? I would want to look at the proc first but is there a way I can tell if it's a bent pin or something more serious? Pics would be great if anybody could find them. thanks a lot.


UPDATE:

He gave me the proc for free. Now when I looked at the pins I see ONE blent pin. So it looks like it might be fixable. He said he took it to a PC place and they could not get it to work on any system. But if that place knew anything about procs, they would have tried to fix this pin. The only other problem I see is that looks like some thermal paste got on two corners on the proc, no pins have paste on it. Is there a way to clean it off? Thanks a lot!
 
Depends how badly it's bent AND if it's only one. I've fixed them many times...just take a rounded plastec object like the end of a pen and gently push it back into position. Then I incert it into the socket and clamp it down. The pressure of the "clamping" will straighten it out again. It should be noted that once bent, it's more easily bent/broken a 2nd time.
 
If only 1 pin is slightly bent, you may be able to fix it using a credit card to gently bend it back in line with the other pins in it's row and column.
 
Depending on how badly it's bent, it's an easy fix. Take a mechanical pencil and push-in or remove the lead. Push the pencil head into the pin, so the pin goes inside the pencil head. Now simply straighten the pencil and pull it off. The pin should be fixed.
 
I just straightened 4 pins on my AMD processor. No problem. bright spotlite, a box cutter, preferably one with a long slide-out blade.

I take the processor and slide the blade down each bent pin row (using as much as 10/15 pins) and carefully lean the blade back towards the vertical slowly. I do this in succession until eveything looks AOK. My success, it drops into mobo perfectly.

Never try to straighten the pin individually or be prepared to send it off to be repaired.
http://www.motherboardrepair.com/cpu_pin_repair.do
 
What do you think would be a good price ot buy this proc at? I mean, it's useless to him becuase he doesn't know that it can be fixed. 🙂
 
Also I know he tried to boot it with the bent pin because that's how he found out that it was bnt because it didn't boot..
 
well if it's still in your possession, bend it back and test it in your system.

if it works, then give him a fair price for it, if it doesn't work, then just give it back to him and say you don't want it.

fair price should be over $100.
 
I say offer him $20 for it, since you didn't get that promotion. Tell him it will make a nice keychain. Then, if it doesn't work, you paid slightly too much for a cool keychain. If it does, then he should have taken the time to do the research that you did.
 
Originally posted by: myocardia
I say offer him $20 for it, since you didn't get that promotion. Tell him it will make a nice keychain. Then, if it doesn't work, you paid slightly too much for a cool keychain. If it does, then he should have taken the time to do the research that you did.
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