UPDATE:
I very carefully bent back the rest of the pins that were slightly offset with a thumbtack, and fashoned a pin out of a strand of wire. I stuck the wire into the socket just barely higher than the socket itself, so that when the processor would press down it would bend and contact the pad on the chip. It worked. The cpu runs fantastically now, even overclocked @ 3.3ghz in my max-3
. Just a tip that some people might like to know. You CAN save processors even after the worst happens.
Anybody here have an idea about if dell would accept a processor RMA? I'll explain.
I recently purchased a $1400 system from dell on a hot deal, (to resell, I'm keeping the lcd), and it came with a 3.0ghz P4. I recently got a refurbed IC7-Max3 from Newegg, but I don't yet have the cpu that will go into the system. I decided that I would test out the motherboard with the Dell processor.
As some of you know, the stock heatsink compound on the Pentium 4 HSF is *VERY* strong adhesive. When I removed the heatsink, the processor came out with it (I was not unordinarly forceful, or careless). As a result, a pin bent on the cpu and it bent in such a way that it was impossible to fix, but I did try and subsequently broke it.
Do I have any claim for a replacement? I understand that I probably shouldn't have been poking around, but I didn't do anything out of the ordinary really, and was not careless like I stated.
Thanks
I very carefully bent back the rest of the pins that were slightly offset with a thumbtack, and fashoned a pin out of a strand of wire. I stuck the wire into the socket just barely higher than the socket itself, so that when the processor would press down it would bend and contact the pad on the chip. It worked. The cpu runs fantastically now, even overclocked @ 3.3ghz in my max-3
. Just a tip that some people might like to know. You CAN save processors even after the worst happens.Anybody here have an idea about if dell would accept a processor RMA? I'll explain.
I recently purchased a $1400 system from dell on a hot deal, (to resell, I'm keeping the lcd), and it came with a 3.0ghz P4. I recently got a refurbed IC7-Max3 from Newegg, but I don't yet have the cpu that will go into the system. I decided that I would test out the motherboard with the Dell processor.
As some of you know, the stock heatsink compound on the Pentium 4 HSF is *VERY* strong adhesive. When I removed the heatsink, the processor came out with it (I was not unordinarly forceful, or careless). As a result, a pin bent on the cpu and it bent in such a way that it was impossible to fix, but I did try and subsequently broke it.
Do I have any claim for a replacement? I understand that I probably shouldn't have been poking around, but I didn't do anything out of the ordinary really, and was not careless like I stated.
Thanks
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