Bent pins

AdamScott85 · 7 Apr 2017 at 14:19

Hi guys, I was almost crying this morning when I was teaching a friend how to rebuild a computer. Being stupid, I let him rebuild my x99 build... Anyway so he somehow managed to drop a cotton cloth onto the motherboard pins, godknows how, so I have slowly pulled it off the pins and noticed there was many of them bent. Now I can build computers all day long, but bending pins back in to place I can't do. I have taken my tower down to the local computer shop and asked the guy to see if he can bend them back in place. I am preparing myself to order a replacement motherboard, and lets just say my confidence of getting the motherboard fixed is extremely low. Do you guys think I have a chance?

Preparing myself for the "you stupid sod comments" haha.

dt97583 · 7 Apr 2017 at 14:21

AdamScott85 said:
drop a cotton cloth onto the motherboard pins

AdamScott85 said:
there was many of them bent.

How hard was the cloth...

AdamScott85 · 7 Apr 2017 at 14:22

davidmt83 said:
How hard was the cloth...

The cloth was stuck to the pins, completely stuck. I tried pulling it off and there was a bit of force needed. I think it is cotton, it is a cloth he was using to wipe around my case.

Webster · 7 Apr 2017 at 14:51

You may be lucky - I have done something similar before and got it working fine - however I ended up replacing as there'd always be the nagging 'could that be the route cause of an issue' later down the line.

AdamScott85 · 7 Apr 2017 at 14:59

Will see how it goes over the weekend, hopefully I get lucky. Will just buy a replacement on Monday if not I guess.

Habakkuk · 9 Apr 2017 at 20:02

Well, that's made me uncomfortable just reading about that

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AdamScott85 · 11 Apr 2017 at 15:05

Update. So the computer shop rung me this morning and explained I had 15 bent pins, they have managed to sort it out. Just got it home and booted up first time, seems I have been very lucky. Cost me £15 to get the pins bent back in place, bargain I think.

Webster · 11 Apr 2017 at 15:38

AdamScott85 said:
Update. So the computer shop rung me this morning and explained I had 15 bent pins, they have managed to sort it out. Just got it home and booted up first time, seems I have been very lucky. Cost me £15 to get the pins bent back in place, bargain I think.

Nice glad you got it sorted mate

Habakkuk · 11 Apr 2017 at 16:58

Thats a great deal - you got very, very lucky here.

AdamScott85 · 12 Apr 2017 at 23:08

Yeah I defo did, thank god.

cadmunkey · 13 Apr 2017 at 00:06

Man, exact same thing happened to me when building a PC with my son. Dropped a microfibre cloth straight onto the motherboard and it got entangled on the pins. Thankfully only three bent pins compared to your fifteen but it took ages to straighten them. I think you got yourself a bargain there at £15!

hornetstinger · 13 Apr 2017 at 07:24

Me too trying to open the CPU cage, seems ok but if worrying about it will take CPU back out and get business to look at it (got proper tools)

Martini1991 · 13 Apr 2017 at 09:06

I'm almost sure there were no bent pins and you just paid 15 quid for nothing.