Bent CPU pins

[Kobi]

I had an oldish mobo lying about with the cpu fan still attached. I unclipped it but it didnt come off, so with some force i managed to pull it off. Didnt even cross my mind the cpu was still attached. Anyway the cpu was still stuck on the bottom of the fan, i must have ripped it out. some of the pins were bent so i assumed it was unfixable. messing around at the weekend though i managed to straighten the pins and it slotted back in the mobo fine. attached a psu, an old ide hard drive and some 512k ddr2 ram, 2 mins later i was booting into windows!(hard drive was a friends old boot drive).

So my question is, is it safe to use? Ive always been told to NEVER touch the pins and well...i never have. i just assumed once bent, its unfixable. If all is well then i might aswell see about making a little server..or something. see about selling it on.

 

[Fleety]

I've fixed a few cpu's in my previous work when engineers had been over eager in removing them. Usually found a credit card was around the right thickness to run up and down the pins to straighten out any bent ones. As long as you have no loose pins then you should be fine.

 

[RiseAgainst]

Yeah as far as i know its safe to use though the pins will be more prone to breaking off totally now

 

[Kobi]

Cheers guys! Looks like a have another project on the horizon.

 

[fleming222]

I ran an AMD PC for a few years after accidentally breaking off 2 of the pins.
It crashed occasionally, but I don't know whether that was the CPU or not (probably was)

 

[marms]

Back in the days of the Athlon XP i always seemed to have lots of processors lying about and managed to bend pins on quite a few lol, they always worked fine again after straightening the pins.

 

[CivilDrone]

I've fixed a few cpu's in my previous work when engineers had been over eager in removing them. Usually found a credit card was around the right thickness to run up and down the pins to straighten out any bent ones. As long as you have no loose pins then you should be fine.

Thanks for the advice, remember having bent pins, i was actually trying to do it with a knife, bad bad bad idea

 

[PhillyDee]

A lot of the pins are ground pins, so you can actually be missing a few and it will work. Even so, you can unbend them. Make sure you do it in one hit though! more than 3 or 4 bends and it will break off due to stress.