Bent pins

JLuchinski

JLuchinski

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Anyone have any good tips for fixing bent pins? I bent about 20 or so on my older 1366 board and want to use it again and sell my current mobo because I have no use for 3 PCI x slots or 12 gigs of RAM. Thanks.
 
razorblade and alot of patience, as well as some jewelers glasses? maybe an x-acto knife might be better but that might be bigger...
 
Try and bend them back as gently as you can. That's about all you can do.
 
Make sure you have good lighting and something along the lines of a 5x or better loupe to check the pins after straightening them(a 10x loupe is even better).
 
I had that problem too. The best solution for me was a combination of a needle (or thumb tac) and a credit card. It worked extremely well :D
 
Push slowly and gradually, if you push it past a certain point it is most definately going going to break trying to push it back again..
 
Thanks for the great ideas guys, I think I'm going to try the pencil method if I ever get time to do it. If I do get it to work then I plan on selling half the RAM and the mobo that's in my sig.
 
FWIW I used a mechanical pencil to bend back about 10 or so pins I'd bent on a 939 CPU/mobo a few weeks ago. After straightening them out and reassembling everything, the mobo let out its magic smoke. Not sure if the damage was done when the CPU was installed wrong or a product of one of the pins not being 100% straightened out. Good luck.
 
Method9 said:
FWIW I used a mechanical pencil to bend back about 10 or so pins I'd bent on a 939 CPU/mobo a few weeks ago. After straightening them out and reassembling everything, the mobo let out its magic smoke. Not sure if the damage was done when the CPU was installed wrong or a product of one of the pins not being 100% straightened out. Good luck.
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well thats a bit of eweeee there...but possibly yea, a pin rebent and touched another...and pop :/
 
think a pen is to wide for smt.
nice idea though. razor sounds about right.
what i did was something similar and lay on the socket
when i thought it was close. then tweak until it looked
right. yes, smt socket is a tough one.
 
Well after several attempts no luck. The pins look perfect, but when I turn it on I don't get any video and a long continous beep. It's a VIA board with AMI BIOS, I can't seem to find what a continous beep means.
 
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I know it's not the RAM, I'm using it right now, and this RAM came with the mobo that's not working as it was part of a Gateway system. I'm going to try it again later if can gather motivation.
 
Is there an easy way to tell if it's the RAM or PCIe slot? Because it was working just fine before I pulled the processor and bent the pins. What PITA.
 
JLuchinski said:
Is there an easy way to tell if it's the RAM or PCIe slot? Because it was working just fine before I pulled the processor and bent the pins. What PITA.
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Sounds to me like the pins for the integrated memory controller arent quite straight. Take a picture from a tripod and take a look at it, ensure that all the pins are correctly aligned and at the correct height to contact the cpu.
 
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