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.
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.