Bent Pins on LGA 1155 socket

Freddie1980

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My motherboard (Asus LGA1155 ROG Maxims Gene IV) only has one functional memory slot and I'm pretty sure it's down to the fact that there 2 or 3 bent pins on my CPU socket.

Has anyone here got any experience of fixing bent socket pins on LGA motherboards? I had go on Sunday but it was really fiddly and the pins are really small. What sort of tools should I use?
 
Years ago when I had a bent pin I thought outside the box and used a piece of A4 paper to align the pin with the rest of the row of pins, it worked.

Be careful since they can easily snap, take your time and don't move it more than you have to. When you're done I again check the rows from all four angles that they are indeed straight once more.

Good luck :)
 
Use something like a toothpick or pin. Gently gently ease the pin until it starts to bend then stop and then again edge it a little further. Spend as much time as you can. They can fatigue and snap pretty easily but they are also pretty tough so it can be done.

It helps to have like a magnifying glass aswell and a good light. Tilt the board once your nearly there and look down the lines of the pins and try get them as close to the others as possible. On both position and height.

As above there are some very helpful videos.
 
Freddie1980 said:
My motherboard (Asus LGA1155 ROG Maxims Gene IV) only has one functional memory slot and I'm pretty sure it's down to the fact that there 2 or 3 bent pins on my CPU socket.

Has anyone here got any experience of fixing bent socket pins on LGA motherboards? I had go on Sunday but it was really fiddly and the pins are really small. What sort of tools should I use?
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yes it will affect the memory banks as the integrated memory controller is built into the cpu,so bent pins/pins not touching certain pads on the underside of the cpu can cause memory faults or certain slots to not work

I use a large magnifying glass and a sewing needle to pull/tease them back into alignment,once they are in line don't mess or fiddle with them too much as they can fatigue and snap off without warning
 
I'll dig out a picture of one I had to work on not long ago.
Long story short is somebody absolutely smothered a CPU in thermal paste, I tried to pick it up/remove it from the slot and dropped it face-down onto the pins.. Cue thermal paste everywhere and a good chunk of bent pins.
It was a Xeon E5 LGA2011 so plenty of pins!

Magnifying glass (fixed if possible, 2 hands are better than one!), stanley knife, a needle and an hour later it was working fine :)
 
I have fixed two ASUS FormulaVI motherboards that had bent pins.

I would suggest a jewellers eye glass to keep your hands free and do similar to tyler_jrb making sure they are align as best as possible.
 
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