Bent a CPU pin would this affect the warranty if I can't bend it back?

[Matthew216]

Hello all,

I believe the pin was already slightly bent before installing. I suspect this because I correctly installed the CPU and took my time, it wasn't until I pushed in the leaver that I heard a crunch.

Thankfully it's just the 1 pin so I will try and bend it back in to place but if this fails am I still covered under warranty? Or if I'm not am I covered in its current state?

Regards, Matthew.

 

[Kelt]

If it's bent and spotted it will be rejected.

 

[muon]

It simply isn't logical the chip could be seated properly if a pin was bent beforehand. Unless it was bent 90 degrees.

The lever arm also shouldn't be requiring much force.

I'm assuming this is a Ryzen chip?

 

[Matthew216]

Yes it is a Ryzen CPU. Everything fitted in just fine there was little resistance (normal amount of resistance) even when the pin bent.

 

[Hagar]

Yes it is a Ryzen CPU. Everything fitted in just fine there was little resistance (normal amount of resistance) even when the pin bent.

There should be NO resistance with any current AMD cpu. Drop into the socket and lower the lever, job done. I usually rest a finger on the heatshield when lowering the lever just to steady it though.

 

[kindai]

Bang out of luck if its bent.

Best of luck straightening it.

 

[Matthew216]

Thank you for the support guys, as they say s*** happens!

I have had to buy a new one unfortunately I'll just take what happened with a pinch of salt and move on best thing I can do.

Just so you guys know which CPU I got here's the specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 1800x, 8 core, 16mb cache, 3.6 GHz base - 4.00 GHz max.

 

[Sosuke.]

It might be worth listing it on the bay with full explanation. You may be able to recoup some cash. Can people fix this with skill? Someone else with more experience than me can chime

 

[blaineoliver]

Send us a picture? Maybe we can help fix it?

 

[Matthew216]

A solution for bent pins is to use a very tiny screw driver, whilst very gingerly and slowly bending the pin back in to place.

Unfortunately my pin was bent all the way down and too much at an awkward angle to bend back in one movement, it broke.

If there's a more safer solution it would be good to know.

 

[darket]

have you tried the cpu without the pin ? , some pins on modern cpu's are redundant , also you can just drop the pin into the socket and install the cpu as normal , i seem to remember a linus video where he did just this and the cpu worked fine.

 

[Hagar]

A solution for bent pins is to use a very tiny screw driver, whilst very gingerly and slowly bending the pin back in to place.

Unfortunately my pin was bent all the way down and too much at an awkward angle to bend back in one movement, it broke.

If there's a more safer solution it would be good to know.

A propelling pencil without a lead.

 

[los]

If it was bent before then it might be worth trying to return it. I’d take a punt on one personally if it was cheap enough not to worry about if it was unfixable.

 

[Matthew216]

have you tried the cpu without the pin ? , some pins on modern cpu's are redundant , also you can just drop the pin into the socket and install the cpu as normal , i seem to remember a linus video where he did just this and the cpu worked fine.

Yes I tried that as a just in case unfortunately I lucked out there too.

I am very happy with my set up I got the new CPU and everything is installed with no problems, got my Corsair hydro h100i v2 liquid cpu cooler 240mm with Grizzly Hydronaut Thermal Paste applied. My new motherboard is an Asus Rog Crosshair vi with Team Group Night Hawk rgb 16gb 3200mhz and a 1080 GPU it's a beast!

Storage wise got 2 x Western Digital 4TB black in raid, 512 Samsung SSD, Corsair Obsidian case and a Corsair HX1000i 1K watt Platinum PSU.

Was really fun building this rig it was just a shame about the processor being damaged during the installation. Hope my next build goes a little smoother. So what rigs do you guys have and have any of you experienced similar installation problems?

 

[Hagar]

have any of you experienced similar installation problems?

I once swapped the mobo on a friends PC, I was knackered with flu, I pulled at the heatsink and lifted the CPU from the socket bending two rows of pins. It was an athlon 3 core processor. I did manage to straighten them all back though with a credit card.

 

[rossiboy001]

Had the same problem.a couple of pins. Could do everything except high eng gaming where it would have driver problems and crash. Tried to re straighten them and just ended with more messed up and now wont work at all.