bent cpu pins

[slap ed]

i used a stanley knife blade ,can straighten rows alltogether seemed to work ok for me.

 

[Firegod]

Using a credit card sounds like a winner. Much easier than using tweezers..

True, but I did only have the one pin. Was nice and simple with the tweezers. But hey, whatever works for you at the end of the day.

 

[KeizzerSoze]

So what the Jewler didn't do it for you?

jewlers said they dont do these kind of things. i think he was scared he might break it.

 

[TurGe]

i used a stanley knife blade ,can straighten rows alltogether seemed to work ok for me.

Used the same method my self on an old P4, worked a treat

 

[jbloggs]

Used a very fine screw driver with a magnifying glass (on a number of bent pins) on a P4 3.4GHz N/wood, worked a treat.

 

[Justintime]

mechanical pencil works for me in most situations.

 

[***F1ZZY***]

My brand new Opty 146 got bent much worse than that one in pic, about half the pins were bent and about 1/4 totally flat.

I had just fitted it and removed to check contact and was about to re-apply AS - wandered into toilet to get some bogroll and somehow managed to drop the chip into the bog, ha ha ha. It bounced off the seat rim first I think - which is what did the damage.

I needed a progressive set of "tools" for that.
A fine razor blade to get under the totally flat slection of pins.
A thin kitchen knife for step 2
and a thicker butter knife and screwdriver - which were about pin width apart.

Once they were all standing, could do rows at a time, "ploughing the gaps"

Took a while but managed to get them all back to shape.......and then had to let it dry out a bit, lucky the bog was clean at the time.....he he.

 

[manoz]

AMD really need to use LGA!

Thankfully they've made the switch with Socket F and all other future ones . Having 1207 pins would be even more of a nightmare

 

[ethan]

For future refference use a pizza cutter (rolling type) between the gaps. It straightens em out

 

[Cairnsey]

I was bending some pins on a 3500 back after i knocked them, i ended up snapping one off!

You had a poo whilst bending your CPU pins? thats disgusting!

Couldn't resist

 

[bailey12856]

i remember with one of my cpus installing it i ended up dropping it, and bending the whole of one corner. i almost cried but after about 1hr of straightening the pins with a small flathead screwdriver and my eyes hurting the cpu dropped into place and it was fine