Lost pin in socket 775 mobo

Aastii

Aastii

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I think I may have found out what made my computer not work, and honestly, it is a strange one. When I took out my old omotherboard the other day I noticed that one of the pins was gone in the CPU socket. Now obviously I never tug at it or forcefully put the cpu in, just drop it in, snap it shut, put paste on, put heatsink on, job done, so how it came out, idk.

Have any of you ever seen this happen before :confused: ? It is unfixable, I don't know where the pin went (probably in the hoover, so now in landfill somewhere), and even if I did i couldn't be able to put it back in, more just out of curiosity whether any of you have any idea how it could have happened?
 
linkin93 said:
Could have been defective from the start and one day it just gave out.
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Well, probably, I mean it doesn't happen to every mobo after all :P

and to update, turns out it is still there, but was out of its little socket that they are in so they push down and was up against another making it look like it wasn't there. It is still almost certainly the issue, but just slightly different. I know for a fact that it wasn't like that after I last cleaned the system and like I say, I don't use it roughly or anything. Just one of those things
 
So you could fix it? get a toothpick and bend it back into place. then sell it if it works :P

EDIT: this is the P5N-E sli board of yours we are talking about right?
 
linkin93 said:
So you could fix it? get a toothpick and bend it back into place. then sell it if it works :P

EDIT: this is the P5N-E sli board of yours we are talking about right?
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I have got it back in place, but don't have DDR2 memory to test it. I think I have a 512MB stick kicking about somewhere I could try out.

And yea, it is my P5N-E SLI. If my M4A79XTD EVO went already I would be mighty pissed...but it is covered by scansure, so is safe :D
 
Got a questiona bout the good old p5n-e:

did you ever run 4 ram sticks and have trouble? you probably know about the trouble i had with the memory you sent me (not the memories fault, i think my board has a bad/failing ram slot) hence i bought 2x2gb.
 
yes I did.

I originally had 2x1GB in my system, that Corsair actually :P

then, I got a bitchin' deal on 4x2GB OCZ Gold Series from OcUK, so jumped on it. When I first got them and tried booting, it wouldn't even post, so I went to the OCZ forums and got told to change the voltages to 2.1V. Did that and it would get part way through posting and always freeze after maybe half a second, so I went back and said and they said to flash the bios, which I did, and after that it worked.

To get it to work, if you are already on latest BIOS, play with voltages, gradually at small increments raise them and see if it makes it any more stable, but don't go too high because of heat and because of warranty.

I also had to knock the nb core up, only slightly, 5MHz if I remember correctly was all it took to get it stable
 
Aastii said:
yes I did.

I originally had 2x1GB in my system, that Corsair actually :P

then, I got a bitchin' deal on 4x2GB OCZ Gold Series from OcUK, so jumped on it. When I first got them and tried booting, it wouldn't even post, so I went to the OCZ forums and got told to change the voltages to 2.1V. Did that and it would get part way through posting and always freeze after maybe half a second, so I went back and said and they said to flash the bios, which I did, and after that it worked.

To get it to work, if you are already on latest BIOS, play with voltages, gradually at small increments raise them and see if it makes it any more stable, but don't go too high because of heat and because of warranty.

I also had to knock the nb core up, only slightly, 5MHz if I remember correctly was all it took to get it stable
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This would have helped me before. bit late now, i've sold one of the kits nd bought 2x2GB of the same stuff. :o

I suppose i could buy another 2x2GB kit and then have 8GB :D:D once configured properly.

Did you configure the timings as well? I had to manually set the to 5-5-5-18-22-2T to get any form of stability, along with the rediculous voltage of 2.4v :( Still got bluescreens.
 
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