Difficult problem, hope you guys have a solution.

[Madwelsh]

My mate phones me up and says he bought a new processor, so I goes round to his and discover he's already taken his old sandy 3700 out and is busily trying to ram a 4400 in the socket. I said to him it should just slot in, no need for pressure. I then notice he's lost 4 pins from the sandy, which are obviously still in the socket! Clumsy fool, now, his sandy still works, but obviously we can't fit the new processor because 4 pins are still in the socket. Is there a way of getting those pins out? Or is it a case of the processor and mainboard now will be forever a double team?

Just wondering tbh.

 

[Madwelsh]

No chance with the tweezers, the pins are too deep in, any way of opening up the socket? Maybe he's going to need a new mobo?

 

[Madwelsh]

Update:

The 4 pins were stuck in the bottom right corner of the socket. I very carefully wedged open the top of the socket with some needle screwdrivers, then used the smallest one to push the offending pins up and out. Fortunately the motherboard still works like a dream Not something I'd like to do again though!