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Metal stuck in 4 pin plug, safe to use? (PIC)

needle nose pliers?

i'd be more worried about damaging the new motherboard (if you have to pull the plug out it might pull the new pin with it) than anything else. the connector is splitting, why not put a flat head in there, split it a bit more and see if you can't wiggle the pin out. then squeeze it back again with some pliers.
 
Well, I thought I had tried this months ago, but I just rammed a paperclip through the other side and it popped out. Weird. Well, solved that one.
 
Hehehe, this happened to one of my power supplies once, except that the pin had come out while the computer was running. Was kind of strange if you ask me.
So I sent my processor back to Intel because after troubleshooting with my motherboard manufacturer (Soyo, I think), and Intel they both decided that is what had to be wrong (everything turned on (fans, hdd, etc...)).
Anyways, new processor comes, plug that in (Slot1, yeah), same problem. Open case up again, nothing wrong, decide it must be the PSU, get another... boots up, look at the old ATX cable, one of the pins has pulled out, push it back in, and then put the old PSU back in, boots up fine. Apparently the pin used to power the processor had gotten unplugged 🙂
After that I returned the new PSU to CompUSA(was in a hurry), and enjoyed my now faster computer(Intel replaced my 450Mhz PIII half speed cache with a 450Mhz full speed cache 🙂)
 
BTW if your curious of what I think of Soyo, I think they are compete crap now, a year later a spark flew out of a capacitor and the board's raid chip (ATA 100) was lying on the side of the case, leaving only scorch marks around the place where it had been.
 
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