Problem installing AMD 2500+ on ABIT NF7 MB, lever will not lower

[MysticMan1]

After placing a retail boxed AMD 2500+ CPU into the socket of a Abit NF7 MB without a problem and checking to make sure that the CPU was laying flat I have been unable to lower the socket lever to lock the CPU in place. I have applied a lots of presure to the lever but it will not go down and I'm afraid if I push to hard the lever will break off, from what I have read the lever should lower with very little resistance or is it normal to have to force the lever down? Is the MB defective? Should I get out my hammer?? :frown: (only joking)

Thanks in advance.

 

[screw3d]

Can the lever go up/down without the CPU?

<-- Just noticed that there's another Grand Nagus! :Q

 

[MysticMan1]

Originally posted by: screw3d
Can the lever go up/down without the CPU?

<-- Just noticed that there's another Grand Nagus! :Q

Yes, the lever works fine without the CPU in the socket.

Yes another Grand Nagus :beer: , but my area of expertise is the hot deal forum.

 

[Vich]

Sometimes its overlooked by accident but make sure you are not placing the CPU incorrectly. Like not aligning it properly. Are any CPU Pins bent at the bottom?

 

[MysticMan1]

Originally posted by: Vich
Sometimes its overlooked by accident but make sure you are not placing the CPU incorrectly. Like not aligning it properly. Are any CPU Pins bent at the bottom?

There are no bend pins and the CPU drops effortlessly into the socket.

 

[uncleX]

>what I have read the lever should lower with very little resistance or is it normal to
> have to force the lever down?

To me it seems like quite a bit of force to turn down the lever, but not like the lever is going to break. The ZIF sockets aren't all the same. I've got one with a plastic lever that is quite hard, and the lever feels flimsy. If some of the pins get slightly bent, which I have done, it gets a little scarey. I go back and forth with the lever until it seems to go easier. There are over 400 springy clips that you are squeezing simultaneously against the CPU pins.

Be sure the lever is all the way up. As it goes down from 90 degrees to maybe 70 degrees, it should begin to feel springy, then get very hard. Then even out, until you snap it into the lever holder.

 

[DanK414]

I know this is a stupid answer but it could help. ARe you pushing as much as you can from the other lever then pushing down on the lever that isn't clipped in? That was the first mistake i ever made when i installed my first amd processor. If you don't force the clipped side first you can spend hours pushing w/o luck(like my dumarsh). hehehe.

 

[MysticMan1]

Originally posted by: uncleX
>what I have read the lever should lower with very little resistance or is it normal to
> have to force the lever down?

To me it seems like quite a bit of force to turn down the lever, but not like the lever is going to break. The ZIF sockets aren't all the same. I've got one with a plastic lever that is quite hard, and the lever feels flimsy. If some of the pins get slightly bent, which I have done, it gets a little scarey. I go back and forth with the lever until it seems to go easier. There are over 400 springy clips that you are squeezing simultaneously against the CPU pins.

Be sure the lever is all the way up. As it goes down from 90 degrees to maybe 70 degrees, it should begin to feel springy, then get very hard. Then even out, until you snap it into the lever holder.

I have apply a lot of force but it will only come down about one third of the way and then it will not budge from spot.
Tried the back and forth idea but still no success.

 

[MysticMan1]

OK, I got the lever down and locked, apparently the bottom of the lever was hitting against the back of the socket so what I did was to use my thumbnail to pull on the back of the socket to create more space between the socket and the lever as I worked lever the back and fore until it started lower.

Thanks guys for the replies. :beer: