Intel P4 CPU pin broke off

[OhHenry]

The pin got bent and I tried straigting it and broke off. I turn on the computer and seems to work fine. Should I be in trouble?

 

[stevty2889]

Well if it works fine with the broken pin, you are probably fine. A lot of pins are just ground pins or voltage pins that won't kill the cpu if broken.

 

[crispy2010]

Have to agree, there a lot of pins thrown in there for core changes and upgrades. If all is working well then.... There is a pin chart some where on the web, do a search and find out what pin it was!

 

[OhHenry]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
Well if it works fine with the broken pin, you are probably fine. A lot of pins are just ground pins or voltage pins that won't kill the cpu if broken.

sweet! I also read around that it can be easy fixed. Thanks.

 

[n7]

Check if you have magically unlocked your multi or sumthin'

Ya never know!

 

[Shenkoa]

Originally posted by: crispy2010
Have to agree, there a lot of pins thrown in there for core changes and upgrades. If all is working well then.... There is a pin chart some where on the web, do a search and find out what pin it was!

Yep I broke a pin on my old P4 2A, it worked like a charm even after. I Oced the SOB to 2.8 GHz!!

 

[Markbnj]

It's no problem. You just use 7 bits from then on. Or, like, 14 or something.

 

[Shenkoa]

uhhh what?

 

[Markbnj]

Well it's 6 bits if you break off two pins. Then you can't add any numbers bigger than 64.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
Well it's 6 bits if you break off two pins. Then you can't add any numbers bigger than 64.

Did you hit your head or something? Stop mumbling nonsense..

 

[Shenkoa]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
Well it's 6 bits if you break off two pins. Then you can't add any numbers bigger than 64.

I dont get why breaking grounding pins would lead to less processing.

 

[Markbnj]

I guess I better keep my day job. The stand-up thing isn't going so well.

 

[Lithan]

Try peeing yourself. Urine is very edgy.

 

[AkumaX]

my p4 1.6a had 3 pins broken (freak shipping accident). now it o/cs to 2.4ghz just fine

 

[Shenkoa]

I had a P4 with no pins and it worked just dandy!

 

[dmens]

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="ftp://download.intel.com/design/Pentium4/datashts/303128.pdf">ftp://download.intel.com/design/Pentium4/datashts/303128.pdf</a>

look on page 41-42 and make sure the bump is not something important... i.e. not vcc or vss