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Wow, you guys are being tough on the OP.
Take a look at the pic Hotwired reposted. On the lower left hand side I can't think of a way so many single pins can be broken while leaving their neighbours undamaged. Tweezers and a steady hand maybe, but why would he do that? On the right side it looks like bent pins rather than thermal paste to me.
Are there even remains of pins in the left side holes?
I wonder if it is a manufacturing fault the OP somehow didn't notice before installing.
Take a look at the pic Hotwired reposted. On the lower left hand side I can't think of a way so many single pins can be broken while leaving their neighbours undamaged. Tweezers and a steady hand maybe, but why would he do that? On the right side it looks like bent pins rather than thermal paste to me.
Are there even remains of pins in the left side holes?
I wonder if it is a manufacturing fault the OP somehow didn't notice before installing.
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If so many bent pins how did he not seem them before put the CPU is what strikes me as rather odd
Strikes me as odd too, but less odd than trying to work out how a perfect socket could be damaged in that way!
Maybe a less blurred photo would clear some things up.
Struggling to understand what's happened there. I don't see how what your saying could have caused that sort of damage.
My motherboard retention clip was relatively tight on my ASUS board, so much so, I questioned my actions several times before adding the extra force.
My motherboard retention clip was relatively tight on my ASUS board, so much so, I questioned my actions several times before adding the extra force.
my second post tell you how he did it because i have done it too, the think about this socket is the two pin set and angled different so when he was wiping off the compound it acted like velcro and snagged all the pins
Although that seems to make sense (The velcro part), how did he go about getting thermal paste into the socket?
OP Sorry to hear this,Someone know how he could bend so many pins just by inserting the CPU it will only go down to the seats all round the socket and no further` are the Pins on the socket spring loaded and it some how failed,I dont buy the wiping with a cloth theory
I dont know removed the CPU for some reason? paste sites on the cpu arm when you close is it go's in the socket that how it went with me.
then you go derrrrr get a cloth and clean it. then you go F%&K D$M A$$ and buy a new board.
You are making some sense here and on closer inspection the stuff on the right does look like some sort of deposit, thermal compound or otherwise.Kitchen Roll + LGA Socket = OPs Pics.. Nuff Said
The pins on the right are angle left but those on the left are angled right. Wiping something from right to left would catch the pins on the left hand side and could damage them.
OP defender turns to prosecutor
I think he's installed a big chunky CPU cooler on there, and bent the motherboard while doing it. I don't think it's when you installed the CPU or pulled down the retention lever.
I think it's when you installed your cooler. Imagine installing a cooler which it's clips need to be pushed in, with it being tight and all, the board could have bent and displaced the pins causing them to bend under pressure of the CPU and cooler. That explains most of the pins on one half of the socket being bent in one direction.
Either that or you stuck a screwdriver in there and gave it a wobble.
I think it's when you installed your cooler. Imagine installing a cooler which it's clips need to be pushed in, with it being tight and all, the board could have bent and displaced the pins causing them to bend under pressure of the CPU and cooler. That explains most of the pins on one half of the socket being bent in one direction.
Either that or you stuck a screwdriver in there and gave it a wobble.
Two Options
1) Manufactured like that but then again you would have thought it was noticable on installation.
2) Kitchen Roll
There is a certain online shop that provides "Installation Mishap" insurance. That way you could just say "yea i put thermal grease in my socket" and get a new board. Oh well good luck to you and hopefully you will get a gullible support tech
1) Manufactured like that but then again you would have thought it was noticable on installation.
2) Kitchen Roll
There is a certain online shop that provides "Installation Mishap" insurance. That way you could just say "yea i put thermal grease in my socket" and get a new board. Oh well good luck to you and hopefully you will get a gullible support tech
I thought he said that it wasnt like that before he installed the CPU into the socket? So that factor has to be considered in this investigation. Which means it must be something that must have been caused during the phase of pushing or pulling the lever. Not too sure about the whole cloth theory, an adequate level of competence would tell you that its not the right way to go about it.
and if he dose not have an adequate level of competence? we all start somewhere, he could be 13yo and this could be his first build
Relating to my last post, what CPU cooler did you use?