Broken cpu pin and fix

[Justintime]

Got a 3Ghz Prescott 478 cpu for free from work as my workmate broke a pin off whilst taking it out of the package, dunno how! CPU did'nt post sadly so he wrote it off and did'nt even bother to try to get it replaced or anything, just left it in the draw in a cpu box. Its prolly been there for about 5 months until a week ago we were clearing out and i found it, queried about it and he told me it was a day i was off work, they got a celeron instead on the cheap to replace it, this replaced a stolen NW 2.8 that some kids in the 6th form (we assume) stole from the PC in question. Carried it home and same result, won't post, so i looked at the missing pin, luckily it was an end pin so relatively easy to find in the 478 socket, broke a pin off a dead Wiliamette 1.7, making sure i broke it far enough so that i got it right to the tip with some solder on it, stuck it in the socket with tweezers where the missing pin would go and fired it up, result CPU is priming away at 3.7GHz stock volts so far 20hrs

 

[Justintime]

Yea i do remove pins for mobile NWs etc to work at low voltage in desktop boards etc. but this pin was critical for some reason lol. Can't solder it, only have a 30W beast here atm and since this works i won't bother

 

[Justintime]

CAT 5 Ethernet wire works as well, did a bit of experimenting

 

[Justintime]

Heh IDE pins are like landposts compared to toothpicks when compared to some CPU pins heheh.