Bent Pin In Socket What Shall I Do

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In my sig it said how Shuttles quality control was poor I take that back. I had another problem with the Shuttle it was working fine but I got a new cpu and put it in but it wouldn't work it just stayed on the Shuttle logo screen. I have heard of this happening before (faulty mobo) so I rang OCUK and they gave me a number to Enta the wholesalers who I assume sold the Shuttle to OCUK. I sent the Shuttle to them and they found that one of the pins was bent in the socket (look at the center square in the pic, it's bottom left to it) this has now made the warranty void so it will cost £278 to fix with postage and labour. I juast ain't got £278 like that i'm 14!!!! so I said to them just to send it back. I though I'll just bend the pin back, what have I got to loose the mobo won't work anyway. Although I started this thread to see if anyone else got any better ideas. Thanks for readin' I hope you have some suggestions.

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I know it's a bad pic they sent it to me.
 
when doing this take great care, youre right its already broken so what the hell but should if you take your time be fine, cant quite see from the pic but ive heard that one thing you can do (dont quote me on this it's not my idea) is to use something like floss (the stuff for your teeth) and wrap it around and pull gently, as soon as you can, put a better pic up!, is it bent up or down?make sure its not plugged into the power or anything stupid 1st and as ive already said, dont panic and take it slow, look at it as fixable, not dead, if you take the view that its an unlikely fix, your less likely to succed, it can be done and many have!!
 
whatever you do it needs to be done gently. I've read about people using retractable pencils (without the lead of course) by sliding the narrow tube at the end over the bent pin to allow them to ease it back into position.
 
ive pushed in pins (by accident) on ide hdd's before...stupid working in the dark lol. Use tweasers to pull it back out and straighten it. for this, the floos idea sounds good, get use some needle pliers or something if you cant get it around it, if not use the pencil idea. If you stil dont have anything to do it with, use something that looks like itll work, dont force it. Try not to use too much force incase you slip and bend another pin :/
 
If you are VERY gentle, bending the pin back just far enough so that it makes correct contact with the CPU shouldn't be a problem.
 
A low heat from a hair drier to the socket should do, but in all honesty it's gonna need the slightest and gentlest of force, you should be able to do it without.
 
A hair dryer won't do anything. You'd melt the solder before you get to a temperature that'd make any difference.

A hair dryer won't do any harm either, so if it makes you feel better blow away to your heart's content.
 
Is that an LGA775 socket?
I had a similar incident on one of my motherboards, but the pin broke off completely, and the motherboard died.
According to this - http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/318732.pdf - yours would appear to be pin M8 (see pages 41 onwards for details) a Vcc supply. It was also a Vcc supply pin (different pin, but similar location, around the centre) that broke on mine, but the motherboard died as a result.

Hope you have better luck than me.
 
bremen1874 said:
A hair dryer won't do anything. You'd melt the solder before you get to a temperature that'd make any difference.

A hair dryer won't do any harm either, so if it makes you feel better blow away to your heart's content.
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Bringing the pin above ambient room temperature definitely will help. If there is any kind of stress in the metal, bending it whilst cool, and brittle could easily lead to a stress fracture and a break.

Even a little extra heat in the pin will aid in preventing a stress fracture.
 
It won't, obviously.
Would you recommend that the OP cool everything down first though? No. Adding heat in this kind of situation can only ever be a good thing. Granted it isn't going to make the operation fool proof, but certainly won't be doing any harm.
 
Soldering iron? Hmm... maybe not, would probably produce too much heat through the pin and melt the plastic around it. Btw, I thought hair dryers create static electricity.
 
No it won't do any harm.

The pins in the sockets are some sort of hard copper alloy with a bit of gold plating.

When bent copper work hardens and becomes more brittle as a result. This is why the pin is much more likely to snap when it is bent back.

The only way you can get rid of the work hardening is to anneal the pin and you’re not going to get to the sort of temperatures required with a hair dryer (or a soldering iron for that matter).
 
Even if it snaps off you can solder it back on - not easy but I've done finer jobs (try soldering the connecting wires on a Kodak CCD chips!). I'm not suggesting you try yourself but if it should break off don't bin it, find someone who installs mod-chips in consoles and ask them to do it for you.
 
I have no idea what the pin-pitch in LGA775 sockets are, but I remember with old FCPGA chips that the tip of a mechanical pencil was perfect for sliding over a bent pin to re-align it with the minimum of stress. Maybe you could find a finer than usual technical pencil.
 
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