This is insanely impressive, its hard to portray how hard this is in photos. a bit different but I tried to fix AM4 motherboard socket myself but I had no microscope and used 5x on phone camera but even 0.15mm tweezers were too big – that shit is small that you almost have to be some sort of surgeon to complete it
Greedy-Mixture-1599
I have fixed 1-2 pins on Intel motherboards but it is impossible to do this. I do not understand how you do this mistake. Do not remove the installed processor.
emperorsyndrome
can someone explain to me what am I even looking here?
what is the “impossible” thing that happened here?
Revolutionary_Pack54
I don’t know who said it was impossible because I’ve done it on several occasions without a microscope and it’s pretty doable if you’re careful. All it takes is some tweezers or a flat head screwdriver and some patience. Heck I have pretty shaky hands and I’ve still done it. I had one particular socket that had somewhere around 30 or 40 pins all bent up and out of shape and although it took forever the results were ultimately successful.
Lga sockets are fairly compliant and the pins Kind of want to go back into the shapes they were in previously.
Juan-punch_man
You are the **greates**
AgentBooth
Literally just had to do this myself, accidently dropped the CPU on the socket. Fortunately it was only about 3 pins and they were right on the edge. Looking at a pin map, they were probably debug pins, but it was still nerve racking to boot it the first time.
brigofdoom
“I didn’t say you couldn’t, I said you *shouldn’t*”
Fabulous-Spirit-3476
I was able to fix my lga1700 socket with like 4 bent pins, congrats brother
Dphotog790
FineDragonfruit5347
FYI for next time, credit cards swipe through the pins realigning as it goes. The plastic wont damage the finish (other than any micro cracks from the bending).
Dopa-Down_Syndrome
The real problem here is light mode.
Relevant_Scallion_38
How long did it take?
wootybooty
Everyone says a lot of things are impossible. You just understand with time and patience you could fix this for free, as well as learn a skill.
You are absolutely one of the greates
BeklagenswertWiesel
man, where do you shop for pants to fit those huge balls of yours.
good job, mate.
opetheregoesgravity_
PGA CPUs in the big ’25 🥀🥀🥀
xXRazihellXx
Challenge accepted
Mythicguy
IbuiltComputers
I’m finding it odd that so many are so impressed. Its definitely difficult, absolutely a pain in the ass, but it isn’t like some mystical god tier achievement that only a chosen few can do. I was overseeing a friends first build and he dropped the chip into the socket edge first from a foot high. I think it was around a dozen pins were bent, halfway between the edge and center pins. I bent them back, and it runs to this day. That section is literally 50% VDDCR and VSS pins and it was on a 7900x, a fairly high power chip.
salzsalzsalzsalz
o7
Robborboy
Brother… Your original post was quite literally everyone telling you it *could* be done.
MrAsh-
I was helping my brother with his build recently and he thought he saw something on the pins. He then grabbed a cloth and went to wipe away what he saw to my dismay. As soon as the cloth touched he went to pull away and the socket was pulling multiple threads out of the cloth. It bent a bunch of pins in a random scatter upwards and at awkward angles. An hour with tweezers , toothpicks and a magnifying glass eventually fixed the issue but man that was a nightmare.
MetaCaimen
It’s all fun and games until the Pc Post cereal.
Statertater
Great job OP 👍
Dr_Squirtle1
Honestly, this belongs in r/nextfuckinglevel
GreenTeaArizonaCan
They called you a madman…
sdcar1985
People are just lazy and/or selling themselves short. You never know until you try. If it works, you saved over a hundred bucks and get the satisfaction of a job well done. If it doesn’t, you’re still in the same spot. It’s not entirely the same, but my 5800X3D fell out of the socket and bent a bunch of pins. Bent them all back with a sewing needle and works great to this day.
MrRobinGoodfellow
Well done! Welcome to the club, next thing you know you will be looking at rebelling machines!
I hate realigning 30+ of these on a single mobo and getting to like number 27 and have one break 🤣
barndawe
I did it once with an Intel 7th gen board, that was bender wracking enough to do the 4 or 5 pins that needed it. Hats off to you!
Tyz_TwoCentz_HWE_Ret
Greatest? No you are not, sorry, but you did do a good job on getting this to work again and aligning enough pins to get it to fire up.
Real work begins to see if it will be stable now after your repair.
Hope that works out for you genuinely. It’s a very satisfying feeling fixing something and bringing it back to life let alone something you might have done yourself? and fixed. Good reason to feel proud for the accomplishment. Cheers!
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This is insanely impressive, its hard to portray how hard this is in photos. a bit different but I tried to fix AM4 motherboard socket myself but I had no microscope and used 5x on phone camera but even 0.15mm tweezers were too big – that shit is small that you almost have to be some sort of surgeon to complete it
I have fixed 1-2 pins on Intel motherboards but it is impossible to do this. I do not understand how you do this mistake. Do not remove the installed processor.
can someone explain to me what am I even looking here?
what is the “impossible” thing that happened here?
I don’t know who said it was impossible because I’ve done it on several occasions without a microscope and it’s pretty doable if you’re careful. All it takes is some tweezers or a flat head screwdriver and some patience. Heck I have pretty shaky hands and I’ve still done it. I had one particular socket that had somewhere around 30 or 40 pins all bent up and out of shape and although it took forever the results were ultimately successful.
Lga sockets are fairly compliant and the pins Kind of want to go back into the shapes they were in previously.
You are the **greates**
Literally just had to do this myself, accidently dropped the CPU on the socket. Fortunately it was only about 3 pins and they were right on the edge. Looking at a pin map, they were probably debug pins, but it was still nerve racking to boot it the first time.
“I didn’t say you couldn’t, I said you *shouldn’t*”
I was able to fix my lga1700 socket with like 4 bent pins, congrats brother
FYI for next time, credit cards swipe through the pins realigning as it goes. The plastic wont damage the finish (other than any micro cracks from the bending).
The real problem here is light mode.
How long did it take?
Everyone says a lot of things are impossible. You just understand with time and patience you could fix this for free, as well as learn a skill.
You are absolutely one of the greates
man, where do you shop for pants to fit those huge balls of yours.
good job, mate.
PGA CPUs in the big ’25 🥀🥀🥀
Challenge accepted
I’m finding it odd that so many are so impressed. Its definitely difficult, absolutely a pain in the ass, but it isn’t like some mystical god tier achievement that only a chosen few can do. I was overseeing a friends first build and he dropped the chip into the socket edge first from a foot high. I think it was around a dozen pins were bent, halfway between the edge and center pins. I bent them back, and it runs to this day. That section is literally 50% VDDCR and VSS pins and it was on a 7900x, a fairly high power chip.
o7
Brother… Your original post was quite literally everyone telling you it *could* be done.
I was helping my brother with his build recently and he thought he saw something on the pins. He then grabbed a cloth and went to wipe away what he saw to my dismay. As soon as the cloth touched he went to pull away and the socket was pulling multiple threads out of the cloth. It bent a bunch of pins in a random scatter upwards and at awkward angles. An hour with tweezers , toothpicks and a magnifying glass eventually fixed the issue but man that was a nightmare.
It’s all fun and games until the Pc Post cereal.
Great job OP 👍
Honestly, this belongs in r/nextfuckinglevel
They called you a madman…
People are just lazy and/or selling themselves short. You never know until you try. If it works, you saved over a hundred bucks and get the satisfaction of a job well done. If it doesn’t, you’re still in the same spot. It’s not entirely the same, but my 5800X3D fell out of the socket and bent a bunch of pins. Bent them all back with a sewing needle and works great to this day.
Well done! Welcome to the club, next thing you know you will be looking at rebelling machines!
I hate realigning 30+ of these on a single mobo and getting to like number 27 and have one break 🤣
I did it once with an Intel 7th gen board, that was bender wracking enough to do the 4 or 5 pins that needed it. Hats off to you!
Greatest? No you are not, sorry, but you did do a good job on getting this to work again and aligning enough pins to get it to fire up.
Real work begins to see if it will be stable now after your repair.
Hope that works out for you genuinely. It’s a very satisfying feeling fixing something and bringing it back to life let alone something you might have done yourself? and fixed. Good reason to feel proud for the accomplishment. Cheers!
Now draw a squre circle