Will an "LGA 1150 Fake Loading Board Test Card CPU Socket Tester" help?

[ambush]

Question summary: I want to try to un-bend some socket pins on an LGA 1150 mobo, but I'm worried that if I don't get it sufficiently correct, and try to install the CPU, the CPU will be damaged. I've seen ads for an "New Laptop LGA-1150 LGA 1150 Fake Loading Board Test Card CPU Socket Tester" (https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-LGA-1150-Loading-Socket-Tester/dp/B072DZ5GGS), and they're very cheap. If I used such a tester and get a good result, would that make the CPU installation safe? Also, the ads I've found are for LGA 1150 laptops, but the mobo in question is for a desktop. Is that a deal-breaker?

Details:

I've just received a used ASUS Z87-A motherboard I ought on ebay. The ad insisted the board works perfectly (i.e, it was not sold as a non-working board to use for parts). However, there were a few bent pins on the board when I got it. I already owned the same board with bent pins that I sent back to ASUS for out-of-warranty repair. They wanted $130 to fix it (probably by replacing the socket). That price was utterly unacceptable, so I declined.

I bought it to replace a different Z87-A that worked perfectly for many years, but recently I found that I could no longer enter the BIOS and also that the system refuses to recognize any hard drive on some SATA ports (which I suppose could be a result of the same BIOS problem).

Will that tester help me prevent damage to my CPU if I don't get all the pins straightened well enough?

A zip file containing a bunch of photos -- an unchanged image coupled with one with circled bent pins -- can be downloaded here:
http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=g995060bd4058612b10000447631c7b9a34fb2dc36f

Thanks!

 

[vrumor]

If it is an item not as described, return it. Dont mess with it.

 

[USAFRet]

"ad insisted the board works perfectly"
"However, there were a few bent pins on the board when I got it."

Send it back.

 

[ambush]

Thanks for the replies!

The thing is, if I just send it back, I'd have to buy another one. The cheapest I can find other than this one is about $140 and that's from China. Even ASUS only wanted $130 to repair (by replacing the socket). I simply cannot afford that! Which is why I asked about the tester. Can anyone answer the question I asked in my OP?

 

[ambush]

"ad insisted the board works perfectly"
"However, there were a few bent pins on the board when I got it."

Send it back.

However, just because there are bent pins, it does not necessarily follow that the board didn't or won't work. There are a significant number of totally unnecessary pins in an LGA 1150 socket.

 

[vrumor]

It all ebay buyers were like that, it would certainly make selling things much easier. You should return it. Otherwise youll be out the board and your money. At least at this point, youll get your money back and youll have to keep looking. Mess with it and the seller wont accept it back.

 

[USAFRet]

"ad insisted the board works perfectly"
"However, there were a few bent pins on the board when I got it."

Send it back.

However, just because there are bent pins, it does not necessarily follow that the board didn't or won't work. There are a significant number of totally unnecessary pins in an LGA 1150 socket.

This is true. And it is possible to straighten them yourself.
Do you know if the bent ones on your board are simply extras? No, you don't.

One of my systems last year. I fixed it, because *I* bent them.
Bent motherboard pins
Before - No boot

After - boot success

 

[ambush]

"ad insisted the board works perfectly"
"However, there were a few bent pins on the board when I got it."

Send it back.

However, just because there are bent pins, it does not necessarily follow that the board didn't or won't work. There are a significant number of totally unnecessary pins in an LGA 1150 socket.

This is true. And it is possible to straighten them yourself.
Do you know if the bent ones on your board are simply extras? No, you don't...

Actually, I do, and have for a long time. I've got a high resolution diagram showing all the pin outs for the LGA 1150 socket. It clearly shows all the "reserved" pins, and there are a number of them. However, I know for a fact that there are pins which are unnecessary that are not marked "reserved" but are simply unused. I'd need to research this again to find a list of those pins, which I certainly would do before bothering trying to straighten them out. But keep in mind that I would only have to worry about JUST those pins which I either fail to straighten out or clumsily broke off in the process. If I straighten them without breaking them, it doesn't matter that they are mandatory.

Once again, Can anyone answer the question I asked in my OP?

 

[ambush]

It all ebay buyers were like that, it would certainly make selling things much easier. You should return it. Otherwise youll be out the board and your money. At least at this point, youll get your money back and youll have to keep looking. Mess with it and the seller wont accept it back.

Thank you for your warning! I asked the seller if he would still give me a full refund if I attempted to straighten the pins myself, and he said no. So to hell with him! I'm sending it back as everyone here at Tom's advised all along, so thanks to you and everyone else.

I still wish someone could answer my question about the tester, though.

 

[vrumor]

If anyone could answer it, they would. There is no review, and im guessing no one here has ever used something like that. When you go some place for advice, you should consider what you are told cause you are trying to get an opinion that is supposed to come with knowledge, experience or common sense. More than most places on the web you will get that here at TH. Merry Christmas.