Broken and bent cpu pins

[andrej.todosijevic]

Ok so yesterday I built my new PC but a lot of pins are bent and one of them is broken... It's my fault. Can this broken pin somehow be fixed by putting some other pin into the motherboard socket?

 

[drea.drechsler]

Ok so yesterday I built my new PC but a lot of pins are bent and one of them is broken... It's my fault. Can this broken pin somehow be fixed by putting some other pin into the motherboard socket?

Your best hope is it's one of the many redundant pins for power or ground...in which case just plug it in and see if it works.

If you've a microscope, an ultra-fine solder station and extreme patience you could possibly solder a pin on but that's pure hail Mary stuff and if you did you always pose the risk of a weak solder joint breaking, leaving the pin to foul the socket.

You can straighten bent pins fairly easily: I use a .5mm mechanical pencil with the lead retracted. Slip the tip of the pencil over the bent pin and slowly bend it back to straight.

But wait: is this an Intel motherboard with pins in the socket? If so, I think the motherboard is scrap unless the broken and bent pins are redundant or unused. But too many missing redundant ground or power connections can't be good for stability even then.

 

[USAFRet]

Ok so yesterday I built my new PC but a lot of pins are bent and one of them is broken... It's my fault. Can this broken pin somehow be fixed by putting some other pin into the motherboard socket?

Which specific CPU is this?
Pictures, please.

 

[eebarn517]

I did the same exact thing yesterday. I used a pair of tiny tweazers, and a dull exacto knife. i was able to straiten it perfectly. you should try this, it worked fine for me. I have an AMD Ryzen 3 2200g

 

[izoli]

Are we talking intel with motherboard having pins? If so, good luck ever fixing that

If its an amd cpu with pins you can maybe get the bent pins working without issue, but that broken pin unless you are very lucky will at least give you some issues with memory and performance.

Its like getting shot in the head, usually its immediately lethal. Sometimes people get away with brain damage and rarely there are people that have little to no issues.