Fixing bent pins on motherboard

[Double07]

My PC stopped working and after stripping everything out I can see that there appears to be some bent pins in the CPU socket on the motherboard. It's an old Z97 board so replacing it isn't cost effective these days really and I've just gone with an upgrade instead.

The CPU seems fine, no noticeable damage there, and I was thinking about having a go at trying to fix the pins, anyone know how feasible this is if they are just bent?

I would need to get a magnifying glass as for some reason I must be the only person in the world that does not own this basic item! Anyone know any cheap ones that might do the job as I reckon it's probably a bust but its maybe worth a go.

 

[tnx]

How many are bent. I had a board with one bent pin, just used some thin tweasers to straighten it. Worked fine ever since.

On the other hand I bought a second hand P67 board. I would guess 80% of the pins were flattened. I kept it to remind me never to buy second hand again.

How did they become bent ?

 

[Double07]

How many are bent. I had a board with one bent pin, just used some thin tweasers to straighten it. Worked fine ever since.

On the other hand I bought a second hand P67 board. I would guess 80% of the pins were flattened. I kept it to remind me never to buy second hand again.

How did they become bent ?

There are a few but not THAT many. I took the cooler off to fix the inside of my case which was a mess. Took the CPU out to replace the thermal paste and I THINK that something must have got into the CPU socket without me realising and when I've reseated the CPU its bent them. My fault entirely, just not paying attention. Ill get a half decent magnifying glass and see if it looks salvagable or just chuck it in the bin.

Contacted ASUS and they said they can try to have a look at it but I have to send it to Czech Republic and it might well be knackered so I dunno if it's even worth the hassle. Ordered a new board from jungle website to double check CPU and RAM is fine then Ill return the board and punt the CPU/RAM assuming they are fine which I am 99% certain they are.

 

[cheesyboy]

I bent about a dozen pins on a board I bought on the marketplace here. It came without a socket cover and I was an idiot with handling it - stuck a fat finger on the thing

Managed to fix it using a mixture of sewing needles and a credit card IIRC. They weren't too badly bent, though - nothing completely flattened.

 

[Double07]

I bent about a dozen pins on a board I bought on the marketplace here. It came without a socket cover and I was an idiot with handling it - stuck a fat finger on the thing

Managed to fix it using a mixture of sewing needles and a credit card IIRC. They weren't too badly bent, though - nothing completely flattened.

Yeah I reckon Ill be able to give it a go with a needle if I get a decent magnifying glass. The only one I had lying about was about as much use as a vegetable plot in Scotland.

 

[Double07]

Well the "new" motherboard came from jungle website and it's so obviously been a customer return. The packaging showed obvious signs of being opened previously and put back together but hey ho not really an issue. I hook it up and it boots, wooohoo my CPU is fine. However it does say that the memory in channel A has failed a test and to remove it. OK I think, fair enough.

TLDR: I try 3 matched pairs of DIMMs and get the same message for all 3 pairs, all 6 DIMMS work fine individually in channel B and boot normally and all 6 fail in channel A.

I think this might just be a return faulty hahaha. At least I know my CPU and RAM work fine.

 

[Double07]

Got a magnifying glass and a couple of the bins were bent pretty bad, plus there were threads of who knows what, hair or something probably, under the pins which wasnt visible to the naked eye. Cleaned it up and fixed the pins as best I could and.....

It didnt work hahah oh well worth a shot and the CPU and RAM are fine so lesson learned, BE MORE CAREFUL