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#1 JJ

Posted 05 March 2007 - 03:02 PM

Was cleaning my gaming rig and ended up bending many pins on the CPU...Bummer...JJ

Back to the Mac till Fed arrives... <_<

#2 Neko

Posted 05 March 2007 - 03:13 PM

You should dry bending them back with a credit card. I've bent pins on the same cpu about 3 times. Not really bad unless they snap off.

#3 General Ferra

Posted 05 March 2007 - 03:13 PM

I guess there is no point in me telling you what you should have done, is there?

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#4 JJ

Posted 05 March 2007 - 03:20 PM

Choice #1 Hit with Hammer
Choice #2 Throw whole rig out the window
Choice #3 Newegg.com

To many bent to straighten, am going to super glue it to the side of the rig as a reminder of what stupidity is...JJ

#5 Catfish

Posted 05 March 2007 - 03:28 PM

I've done that before... luckily it was back in the old 486 days when there were few enough pins you could straighten them with a pair of needlenose pliers...

#6 mike080697

Posted 05 March 2007 - 03:29 PM

You should dry bending them back with a credit card. I've bent pins on the same cpu about 3 times. Not really bad unless they snap off.


I did the same thing on a Pentium 3.2 northwood chip, I didn't get the cpu fully seated and then installed the heatsink, I bent about half of the pins. The credit card thing works to bend them back :D (or order a new cpu) :wasnt-me:

#7 XBlade1965

Posted 05 March 2007 - 07:12 PM

Guys for next time a mechanical pencil tip works great for bending pins back.

#8 WTBass

Posted 05 March 2007 - 07:17 PM

Ahh JJ...been there done that! It was an older chip but I've done both the mechanical pencil thing and a plastic drivers license. Ended up screwing it up worse but it's worth a try since you have the new one coming. I ended up putting it on a piece of dark styrofoam packing material, put little eye balls and a wire on the back of it and gave it to a client and told her it was a "computer bug! :)

#9 pest control

Posted 05 March 2007 - 07:22 PM

yea, this happens, I call it a devine sign for upgrade :)

#10 Uncle Bill

Posted 05 March 2007 - 07:32 PM

Done it as well. Nice pair of tweezers did the trick for me:-]

On the other hand I once knocked a capacitor off a sound card...wasn't able to fix that:-[ Fortunantly only a soundcard and not something, well more expensive.

#11 JJ

Posted 05 March 2007 - 08:31 PM

yea, this happens, I call it a devine sign for upgrade :)


Not really where I want to be, I bought an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 2.4GHz 1MB L2 Cache. I would have liked to been somewhere with an FX 74 and an 8800. Alas we do what we can...JJ

#12 Uncle Bill

Posted 05 March 2007 - 09:07 PM

Sweet! Everyone loves new hardware, and that sounds pretty roxorz to me!

#13 Jason Bourne

Posted 05 March 2007 - 10:31 PM

To many bent to straighten, am going to super glue it to the side of the rig as a reminder of what stupidity is...JJ

Wouldn't a mirror be better?

#14 JJ

Posted 05 March 2007 - 10:34 PM

To many bent to straighten, am going to super glue it to the side of the rig as a reminder of what stupidity is...JJ

Wouldn't a mirror be better?


This coming from the guy who couldn't figure this out..."Jason Bou®ne"

#15 Jason Bourne

Posted 05 March 2007 - 10:39 PM

That's not stupidity; it's computer illiteracy. You should be able to relate to that, it's something you old folks are usually afflicted with.

#16 JJ

Posted 05 March 2007 - 10:46 PM

That's not stupidity; it's computer illiteracy. You should be able to relate to that, it's something you old folks are usually afflicted with.


Actually that is pure stupidity, us old people can us computer illiteracy because we started with 5 rocks and a stick...you young ones have cell phones, laptops, desktops, ipods, and all that other techno shit...we had 5 rocks and a stick...JJ

#17 XBlade1965

Posted 05 March 2007 - 11:10 PM

Ahh JJ...been there done that! It was an older chip but I've done both the mechanical pencil thing and a plastic drivers license. Ended up screwing it up worse but it's worth a try since you have the new one coming. I ended up putting it on a piece of dark styrofoam packing material, put little eye balls and a wire on the back of it and gave it to a client and told her it was a "computer bug! :)



LMAO!! :cowdance:

#18 Why Two Kay

Posted 05 March 2007 - 11:12 PM

That's not stupidity; it's computer illiteracy. You should be able to relate to that, it's something you old folks are usually afflicted with.


Actually that is pure stupidity, us old people can us computer illiteracy because we started with 5 rocks and a stick...you young ones have cell phones, laptops, desktops, ipods, and all that other techno shit...we had 5 rocks and a stick...JJ


Now what did you do with said rocks and stick?

#19 JJ

Posted 05 March 2007 - 11:16 PM

That's not stupidity; it's computer illiteracy. You should be able to relate to that, it's something you old folks are usually afflicted with.


Actually that is pure stupidity, us old people can us computer illiteracy because we started with 5 rocks and a stick...you young ones have cell phones, laptops, desktops, ipods, and all that other techno shit...we had 5 rocks and a stick...JJ


Now what did you do with said rocks and stick?


On your 40th birthday it will become crystal clear...

#20 glennwood_quagmire

Posted 06 March 2007 - 02:55 AM

yea, this happens, I call it a devine sign for upgrade :)


Not really where I want to be, I bought an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 2.4GHz 1MB L2 Cache. I would have liked to been somewhere with an FX 74 and an 8800. Alas we do what we can...JJ



Ouch the pins are STILL on the chip on this socket... and not on the mobo as with the 775 (guess you could bend the pins on the mobo also).

GQ


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