Repair a LGA 775 socket ?

ob1

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I got hold of a motherboard with 2 broken pins on the LGA socket. What do you lot reckon to my chances of fixing this by supergluing on some telephone wire or two snapped off pins from a 386cpu prehaps.

Should I even try or is it too risky to the processor I might test with it. IAm not sure how much pressure these socket pins are put under, obviously a superglue bodge job isnt going to handle much strain.

I heard somewhere you can only ever install 20 cpus into these motherboards because the wear and tear is so bad on them, the socket does seem to exert a lot of pressure when pushing down the trigger but I dont know if that is transmitted to the pins or its holding the cpu die in place firmly as a whole.

Any soldering mad scientists out there know about this stuff?

The board isnt even a year old but I presume any attempt at rma or repair request would fail
 
Basically, it's gone. You can't do any more damage to it by trying to fix it, so why not? The only thing I would say is that if you bodge something in the hole and then clamp the CPU down, you might damage the CPU, which would seem a bit dangerous to me.
 
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