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aplefka

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So about a month and a half ago I bent some pins on my CPU and I just left it for dead. Now I'm desperate and am curious if anyone has a picture so I can figure out what the bent pins do, or someone who is knowledgeable enough at NW cores to be able to tell me if I could still use it based on pics of the CPU that I have taken. Google only turns up the same couple of images and none of them are marked with words so it's of no help. Thanks.
 
Not to be mean, but it doesn't interest me, so I'm not going to go digging myself, but I believe all that information can be found in Intel's tech docs/white papers for each pin configuration.
 
Have you tried straiting them out? The pins are more durable than most people think, you can usualy straiten them without them breaking..I had about 15-20 bent pins on mine when the the heatsink was stuck to and pulled out the cpu, I straitened them with a credit card and back in business..and as somebody else mentioned, you should be able to find the pin layout on the Intel website.
 
take the lead out of a mechanical pencil, position the pencil over a bend pin, bend it back. undershoot it incase you accedentally go too far, its not good to bend it back in the other direction because it'll weaken it
 
i would say try straightening them out as the socket holes are tapered so they dont have to be exactly straight, have any pics so we can see the severity of the bent pins
 
Argh, that's rough.

I bent the IDE connector on my mobo the other day trying to replace the IDE cable.

Had me panicked for a bit, but i managed to straighten them out.

However, CPU pins...oh man.

All i can say is good luck! 🙂


RichUK: I see you got a Raptor 🙂
Your rig is actually kinda similar to mine, especially now that you added the 10K drive.
 
Originally posted by: n7
Argh, that's rough.

I bent the IDE connector on my mobo the other day trying to replace the IDE cable.

Had me panicked for a bit, but i managed to straighten them out.

However, CPU pins...oh man.

All i can say is good luck! 🙂


RichUK: I see you got a Raptor 🙂
Your rig is actually kinda similar to mine, especially now that you added the 10K drive.
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yeah im getting another raptor this friday and setting it up for raid 0 .. (74 gig, well 69.2 Gb in windows is not enough) especially as my 120 gig IDE has now stopped booting)

hopefully setting up raid 0 is not going to be to much of an issue .. fingers crossed ..
 
Well, I actually bent most of them back, but there are 4 that are bent pretty bad. I've never heard of using the credit card, I just used my .5mm mech. pencil tip.

I'm honestly pretty pissed that they got bent because of the way it happened, but now I just want to have a better computer to use than this one again.
 
I bent the pins on one of my socket 478 cpu's (either the northwood or prescott, can't remember) and bent them back mostly straight. Then very carefully put the CPU in the socket and the socket straightened them out perfectly.
 
Man, I got all the bent pins back straight, then I put it in the socket and about 1/4 of one of the pins close to the bottom right corner broke off. Should I try it or am I fux0red?
 
Originally posted by: aplefka
Man, I got all the bent pins back straight, then I put it in the socket and about 1/4 of one of the pins close to the bottom right corner broke off. Should I try it or am I fux0red?
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its probably a grounding pin (earth) .. and if it is then it is nothing really to worry about as it wont affect anything.. i would say give it a go and post back with results .. you can always try to solder back on .. but i probably wouldn?t 😛
 
Well, the thing is I WANT to try to see if it would work, but I also want to be able to keep all my components in working order. I have yet to find a pin layout, maybe I'll look some more today.
 
Originally posted by: whatever
1/4 of one pin broke off? in that case, you should be fine.
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I talked to two members from here and they both said probably not, because it won't reach to touch the board. I dunno what to do. I want to have my computer back but I'd rather have all my components in working order save the CPU.

Edit: Upon further investigation it seems like it's even less than 1/4 of the pin, and the top of it is bent a little bit. I'm really tempted to try it tomorrow and see if it works. I'm gonna disconnected everything save one hard drive (that I'm gonna get everything important off of first).
 
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