Do they still honor the warranty, or you have to pay a certain amount of money. Whats the deal with the bent pins in the cpu socket. I dont have a definitive answer for all of you but i can definitively tell you what i personally believe is the root cause. Depending on how skilled you are it might a lot of time though. Page 1 of 2 bent motherboard pins question posted in internal hardware. If the pins on the board get bent send it to us and we will fix and clean the board for you in a timely. A cpu is both a critical and fragile piece of hardware. This tool replaces my use of needle nose pliers to straighten pins. If it does not go well you can try and straighten them, with a needle or small precision screwdriver, magnifying glass and steady hand. There are few things you can do to try to fix this. How can i avoid bending the pins on the gx260 p4 processor, when i am trying to remove the processor chip, after a fan blower failure. It wont boot up if pins are bent,it sometimes boots and you have missing memory,i had just one bent pin on an asus board,i straightened it with a fine sewing needle and fixed it,i wouldnt attempt fixing yourself if 4 or 5 pins are damaged,best rma it to gigabyte,they should repair for you,pins are very easy to bend,even removing the protective cpu cover can bend them so take care. Initially, i didnt notice, so i put in the xeon to try it out, didnt work.
I recently had a lot of trouble with a new build, and sent the motherboard back. I had a few bent pins 2 years ago on a x58 lga 66 board and there was no problem to fix them. They are a lot more fragile then the proc pins and a royal pain in the ass to straighten of one gets bent. Yes, a motherboard with bent pins can be repaired if its not too damaged. All it takes is a brain fart to bend an lga1155 pin. I didnt have any needle nose pliers at home but will borrow a pair today to try to straighten the pin tonight. Hello so i have the new asus strix extreme mobo with a skylake 6700k, the pins on the motherboard are bent, and they managed to make a scratch on two of the copper electricity receivers on the cpu, not the core in the middle. Cant really tell from the photo but it looks like maybe a couple in the middle on the right. Bent motherboard optical pins, what are my options. I am thinking the cpu might still work as long as the copper receivers still.
I wish i had thought of that before i tried to straighten the bent pins on my p4 1. Hi everyone, just wondering whats asus policy and physical damage to the cpu socket with bent pins when doing an rma. Yes, in my early days of tinkering and building my own pcs i did end up bending a pin or two. Fixing bent pins on motherboard overclockers uk forums. Luckily, there are some easy household remedies you can try before dropping money on a new unit. Pick the smallest screw driver, place its flat side against the bent pin, and bend it to absolute straight vertical. Of course the first thing i did was open the socket cover only to find a couple of bent pins. I am building myself a new computer and the new motherboard i got well. Pgas are resistant to bent pins, more resistant in fact thicker pins, but are more expensive for intel as the cpu maker has to. The way the 2 lower bent pins are, and if they are the cause, i would say it wouldnt be possible. I am thinking the cpu might still work as long as the copper.
I spent around 20 minutes straightening them out with a pair of tweezers, but it works. I am very surprised at the number of users who are managing to somehow bend cpu pins on the x58 motherboard. A few weeks ago, i bought a used asus p10si motherboard to save some money student. Youll need to try to straighten those pins and the connector should slip over them. Its actually pretty simple to fix, provided the pins arent too badly bent. When unboxing the device yesterday in the evening, i saw that some cpupins were bent. Is it possible to fix a motherboard with bent pins. If he had just purchased the motherboard he coulda said that it came like that but having owned it for a while, then yeah your right. I also had a problem with 2 bent pins on an asus motherboard. They replied saying that the cpu socket pins on the motherboard had been bent. My motherboard upgrade of january, 20 was an epic fail and it looks like it was messed up pins outofthebox. Ive tried my best to fix that in a work of more than two hours.
I bent the motherboard pins for the cpu pc building. Yes, martha, they make mobos with the pins in em, and the cpus have the socket holes. The usb2 port is fine, but i cant use the usb3 ports because the connecter on the motherboard has pins bent. While dusting the ps4 off i accidentally bent these pins and now my ps4 will not update all of my games are digital, i have no need for the optical. Its an old z97 board so replacing it isnt cost effective these days really and ive just gone with an upgrade instead. Motherboards ship with socket caps so unless it was repackaged at some point its unlikely to arrive that way. After some troubleshooting, including using an adapter cable to plug the usb 3. One tiny slip and your motherboard could be toast too.
I asked her to disconnect the monitor for me and she did not realize that there were screws on the side that connect the monitor cable to the cpu so pulled on it so hard that the adapter disconnected itself from the motherboard and bent. Vga connector on motherboard pins all bent hi, my mother has a dimension b110 that is not under warranty. We use high quality caps from digikey as replacements. For bent pins ive always seperated them just enough to get a header over one of them and used the header to straighten and seperate them. Long story short i argued that if i had dropped something then quite a few pins would be bent in, very much like the pictures in entry number 15.
If you take your time they can be moved back in place. I basically fixed them with a toothpick and moved them back to place. I always use a pair of jewelers needle nose pliers for straightening pins, but that may not be the best way for some. Whats the safest way to straighten bent pins on a cpu. Bent pins will prevent the cpu from seating normally and likely cause hardware errors in your computer. After removing the heat sink assembly with no force on my part, and no resistance whatsoever from the processor chip, the processor chips pins were bent. Now i got en email from them saying the return was declined because of bent cpu pins. Hello so i have the new asus strix extreme mobo with a skylake 6700k, the pins on the motherboard are bent, and they managed to make a scratch on two of the copper electricity receivers not the core in the middle. How to correct bent cpu pins on motherboard in cpu socket. Kenzan pin straightening tool to keep your kenzan needles straight and clean. I took a picture of the motherboard before i sent it so im going to check that tonight when i get home and if there are more bent pins than before ill let them know with a copy of the picture. Hi all i was installing my cpu, im not sure how sensitiveforgiving the pins are on the lga2011 socket of the motherboard but what. Asus policy for bent pins on cpu socket when doing rma.
Just got a motherboard for my new media server from ebay a gigabyte b85mds3h. The intel socket 775 has the pins on the motherboard instead of the cpu. Overclocking bent motherboard pins, fixed but now will. To get the most of this tool i found squeezing the sides 34 times works best. Bent pins on motherboard s usb3 port mon nov 10, 2014 10. I suggest making sure youve destatic yourself, then use a mechanical pencil,you know the kind that you put a stick of lead in, with the lead out, and gently ease the pins to a vertical position. Everything went smooth with one exception, i dropped the screwdriver on my cpu socket while removing standoff screws and im pretty. Vga connector on motherboard pins all bent dell community.
I emailed the seller to inform him, and did my best to bend the offending pins back into position with a needle. Hi all had a small mishap during maintenance some time ago which left a z87ws motherboard unusable due to some bent pins on the array. Basically, just slide something between them if theyre shorted and use the header to do the actual straightening. Ive built my own pc before, but wanted to avoid the headache this time as ive been having issues for 2 months. 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. Just place the tool over your kenzan pins and it easily straightens any pins that may have been pushed out of shape during use. You will probably need a microscope for this repair. Ive also found that some the tolerances for the thickness of. Trying to fix bent pins on a motherboard overclockers uk.
You will need a good pair of tweezers with sharp tips, a bright lamp to illuminate the motherboard while you. Also some electronics kits are poorly packaged which lead to bent legs as well. Unfortunately bent pins are often from what ive seen considered customer induced damage and not covered by warranty. I was taking apart my pc this weekend in preparation to sell the components. A drop to the floor or a failed attempt at mounting can easily result in bent pins. Discussion in pc hardware started by markjohnson, feb 18, 20. Bent pins on motherboard pcmaclinux society gamespot. I managed to get most pins looking ok but i could see that something wasnt right although couldnt see exactly what.
Bent pins are classed are user mishandling thus not covered. This 2 34 inch tool will help you keep your kenzan frogs in tip top shape. I understand that its not asus fault on bent pins, but when you do an rma, whats their policy if there is 23 pins that are bent or out of position. So youve somehow managed to bend the pins on your cpu, dont freak out. Asus does not warranty bent pins, it will be an out of pocket repair. I didnt apply to much force, and only took around 1 minute. You said the damaged pins on your particular chip arent bent all that much so you can probably skip this first step.