[SOLVED] CPU pin broke off - Ryzen 7 1700x

[Omarkapp]

Hello! Today I was upgrading my cpu cooler and accidentally broke off a cpu pin and bented some others along with it. At first, my PC would not turn on at all. The motherboard showed the light that it had power, but when I press the power button on my computer, nothing happens. Then, I took out the CPU. Straightened the bent ones, and now I have one missing pin on the edge of the CPU. I put it back in, and now my PC turns on. The fans, new cooler, etc all turn on. However, nothing works. My monitor doesn’t get a connection, my mouse and keyboard don’t light up, nothing. Even the restart button on the PC doesn’t work. It’s all on, but nothing works. So do you believe the problem is the pin that broke off? I mean seriously, one pin does this? My mobo is the Asus PRIME b350m-a. Did I maybe put in the ram wrong, plugged in the wires wrong, or is it the broken off pin? Please help.

 

[fagetti]

you might of have shorted 2 bent pins causing damage to the motherboard . You can try method of taking pin from worthless old / broken cpu

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8mKPLeCfo

 

[Omarkapp]

you might of have shorted 2 bent pins causing damage to the motherboard . You can try method of taking pin from worthless old / broken cpu

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8mKPLeCfo

Are you saying my motherboard is broken?

 

[Omarkapp]

I see other people have the problem. Everything works but I get no signal to anything... I ordered a new CPU that’ll arrive in 2 days to see if the CPU is the problem. What do you guys think really is the problem?

 

[xravenxdota]

Well not all pins are used if i remember correctly but hard to say which is used and which not.Pretty sure yours are the cpu causing this.

 

[CountMike]

you might of have shorted 2 bent pins causing damage to the motherboard . You can try method of taking pin from worthless old / broken cpu

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8mKPLeCfo

You can't short pins and insert CPU in the socket on such processors, only when pins are in the socket like Intel. Shorting pins without inserting in socket and powering it is impossible,

 

[fagetti]

You can't short pins and insert CPU in the socket on such processors, only when pins are in the socket like Intel. Shorting pins without inserting in socket and powering it is impossible,

Yeah i actually have killed a board when installing old intel laptop cpu which still had those pins, it was shorted. I have no experience with amd cpu:s and that sounds like a good improvement to have

 

[AllanGH]

IMHO, having the pins on the processor is superior to Intel's method, which moved the damage caused by inept handling and installation to the motherboard socket, and away from being a cost to Intel to deal with. (I bet the MB manufacturers are hating that.)

The only improvement that might be made to AMD motherboards would be a processor locking mechanism which retains the processor in the socket when somebody gorilla-yanks the heatsink off the processor without twisting it to release the heatsink thermal paste.