Question Bent pins ?

[Scar Mountain]

All of them? Some of them? None of them?

See here.

 

[Flayed]

It does look like there may be a couple in the 2nd and 3rd pic

 

[Lutfij]

In this image;

the top right hand corner looks like you have a couple of bent pins. You actually made a mistake, use ambient light to illuminate the pins, preferably sunlight and you take a photo from above the socket, more than at an angle.

Regardless, if the pins aren't bent to the point they are overlapping other areas, you can drop in a CPU and see if the system posts. If you got the board with bent pins, I'd advise on returning/RMA'ing the board ASAP.

 

[Scar Mountain]

I get an orange QLED with a CPU, which on ASUS MBs signals a RAM issue, but I'm sure it's related to the CPU/socket, as this and another CPU of the same model were working here even a few days ago. In the meantime, the socket suffered a lot of worrisome pressure and scraping during CPU movement. While I don't believe it could be an exclusive problem of the one CPU, I did also clumsily send it flying across the room in all this.

This motherboard is itself a recent RMA replacement, hard to believe they'll accept it. (The previous one displayed a mix of orange and red QLED for a CPU socket short circuit btw.)

 

[MEMOFLEX]

I get an orange QLED with a CPU, which on ASUS MBs signals a RAM issue, but I'm sure it's related to the CPU/socket, as this and another CPU of the same model were working here even a few days ago. In the meantime, the socket suffered a lot of worrisome pressure and scraping during CPU movement. While I don't believe it could be an exclusive problem of the one CPU, I did also clumsily send it flying across the room in all this.

This motherboard is itself a recent RMA replacement, hard to believe they'll accept it. (The previous one displayed a mix of orange and red QLED for a CPU socket short circuit btw.)

There are a few things to try and understand here.

How did the socket suffer a lot of worrisome pressure and scraping?

Did the motherboard arrive with bent pins?

Did you have the issues before the cpu was sent flying? Flying onto what btw? Tiled floor? Sofa cushion?

The socket pins can be realigned if they need to be. Takes a sewing needle, a steady hand and patience. If they are only slightly out its not too bad to fix. Bent backwards in any way then very difficult to relocate without breaking them off.