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Recently I botched my Ryzen 9 3900X installation which made me quit on tech for a few days.
Then I got a response from the guys I bought this from after I sent the CPU & motherboard to them thinking they're defective. They let me know that I somehow managed to break the retention lever of the socket and/or the socket itself. The CPU just wouldn't be detected because it is not making contact/the socket is outright dead.
So how did I manage this?
New to Ryzens, thought I could install it myself without any video help. I lifted the retention lever by slightly bending it to the side so it could get out from under the notch holding it down, and halfway through lifting it, it made a loud crackling sound, and it wouldn't lift up all the way, so I had to force it in order for it to do so. I thought this was normal and went on.
I took the CPU, aligned the golden triangle, the CPU dropped into place perfectly. However when I went to place the lever back down, it once again stopped halfway through and made that same crackling noise. Nevertheless I forced it and again bent it slightly to the side before pushing it under the notch, not knowing I needed to push it directly on the notch and it would clamp down in place. My mind was programmed with LGA socket retention levers.
Anyhoo, that resulted in an EZ Debug LED being stuck on CPU, fans at full speed and no POST.
After taking out the CPU for RMA/refund, I noticed that it had no bent pins at all. However when it reached those guys they sent screenshots showing the bent pins:
View: https://imgur.com/a/JIguYZR
I'm fairly sure they weren't bent like this when I sent it but that's beside the point. Just gotta straighten some pins now with a credit card/tweezers, if the CPU is even salvageable anymore. The board is undergoing repairs/replacement and will be sent back to me in a few weeks. CPU arrives this week.
My question is how the heck did I manage to break my socket installing this thing? All the videos I saw on Ryzen installation before my CPU arrived did the same things I did, except without the loud noise. Okay, they also didn't bend the retention lever slightly when placing it back down.
Then I got a response from the guys I bought this from after I sent the CPU & motherboard to them thinking they're defective. They let me know that I somehow managed to break the retention lever of the socket and/or the socket itself. The CPU just wouldn't be detected because it is not making contact/the socket is outright dead.
So how did I manage this?
New to Ryzens, thought I could install it myself without any video help. I lifted the retention lever by slightly bending it to the side so it could get out from under the notch holding it down, and halfway through lifting it, it made a loud crackling sound, and it wouldn't lift up all the way, so I had to force it in order for it to do so. I thought this was normal and went on.
I took the CPU, aligned the golden triangle, the CPU dropped into place perfectly. However when I went to place the lever back down, it once again stopped halfway through and made that same crackling noise. Nevertheless I forced it and again bent it slightly to the side before pushing it under the notch, not knowing I needed to push it directly on the notch and it would clamp down in place. My mind was programmed with LGA socket retention levers.
Anyhoo, that resulted in an EZ Debug LED being stuck on CPU, fans at full speed and no POST.
After taking out the CPU for RMA/refund, I noticed that it had no bent pins at all. However when it reached those guys they sent screenshots showing the bent pins:
View: https://imgur.com/a/JIguYZR
I'm fairly sure they weren't bent like this when I sent it but that's beside the point. Just gotta straighten some pins now with a credit card/tweezers, if the CPU is even salvageable anymore. The board is undergoing repairs/replacement and will be sent back to me in a few weeks. CPU arrives this week.
My question is how the heck did I manage to break my socket installing this thing? All the videos I saw on Ryzen installation before my CPU arrived did the same things I did, except without the loud noise. Okay, they also didn't bend the retention lever slightly when placing it back down.
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