Socket-775 horror story:(

[DLMyth]

Recently bought the GA-N680SLI-DQ6 and it's my first socket-775 since I normally deal with AMD chips. Needless to say I didn't know the motherboard had pins on them and that's where my issue comes in. I accidentally bent a pin or 2 on the board when I unlocked the pin and move the metal frame up. I managed to bend the pins back but now I'm worried. I know this is a stupid thing I could of done. First time this ever happen to me in all my years of building computers.

The good news is that the computer turned on with no issues but I think this messed up the the temperature reading on the board. Instead of the usual 37c I'm getting 57c. I ran a test by connecting a different board to the case and the chip ran at 37c. But when I put it on this board it's higher than usual. Also, I'm worried that this may cause some long term affects and hate to do an RMA on the board. If it's just the incorrect temperature readings I can live with this. Anyone else had this horror story happen to them?

 

[DLMyth]

Seems I'm the only one then that this has happened to. Anyone have any ideas of what else could happen with bent pins on the socket? Or have a site with a description of what each pin does this way I can see the damage done?

 

[Miramonti]

You're fortunate that you can still boot.

Like you, I switched from long-time amd purchases, to my first 775 board ever. But unlike you, I ruined the motherboard pins on mine. I removed the cpu heatsink, and some artic silver that oozed onto the cpu bracket fell onto the socket pad and pins. I tried to wipe it off not knowing that the cloth would be like velcro to the pins, and bend a bunch of them ripping the cloth away.

Since I also still had artic silver on the pad/pins, I wasn't going to risk a new e6850 on it and ate the loss, and bought a new board.

As for the temps, that's a tough one, since numerous programs that read temps are messed up, and I'm not sure which works best for your board. Perhaps try cpu-z and compare the results. I would say that as long as your computer is stable under load I wouldn't worry about it. If you're overclocking, it might make things a bit more complicated, to trust the temp readings or not, because if 57c is idle, and its for real, then overclocking it will certainly take the temp above 75c, something that isn't recommended to do. It might be possible to bend the pins back into place if you're careful and use a magnifying glass.

On another note, I'm not a fan of when people break something yet RMA it claiming its defective. I can't say that I've never done it tho, probably have at some point.

 

[SpawnAngel17]

Hi this is the spec that i have :

Model Name : GA-N680SLI-DQ6(rev. 2.0)
Hard Drive : Western Digital Raptor 150GB
VGA Brand : BFG Model : NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3
CPU Brand : Intel Model : QX6850 Speed : 1333
Operation System : Vista Ultimate SP :
Memory Brand : Corsair XMS2-6400C4 Twin X Type : DDRII
Memory Size : 4MB Speed : 1066
Power Supply : 720 W

I did have the same problem like you I use to be AMD but I thought I'd try intel my motherboard was faulty at first the CPU bay was damaged so i took the board back to the shop i got it from, they changed the M/B no problems at all but they wanted to fit my CPU so i let them, when i got it home to build the rest of the components and start it up i was getting problems wouldn't boot up so i check the BIOS the temp on the CPU was 62c then all of the sudden it just cut out on me the CPU went and the M/B got damaged again. So if you want my advice don't risk it changed the M/B it's alot safer.