However, one of the pins are broken off.
I've read it's best to replace them. However, I've heard of the following ways to fix them:
1.) Take it to a jeweler and they can fix.
2.) [url=http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121471]Clip a staple[/url].
3.) Use the gold wire from an ethernet cord/cable.
4.) Solder it yourself.
I might be able to do step 4, I do have a soldering iron. I also have a old [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_462]Socket 462[/url] AMD CPU with gold pins.
This one to be exact.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32409323/Images/Thisem.png[/img]
Buying a new one is the last thing I want if it can be fixed.
Before you possibly further damage your CPU, check a socket diagram to see what the broken pin does. Many pins on the bottom of the CPU are redundant or not used at all (most common are ground and power.) If you have a broken ground or power wire, the CPU may still work fine, just the power or ground pins next to the broken one will take a slightly higher load.
If it's a bus line, then you're pretty much screwed. Swapping a pin from a socket 462 isn't going to work because the pins are much bigger. I wouldn't try fixing it yourself and do option #1 instead.
Someone is actually mailing me this. He says it's broken near the edge. How much does it usually cost for a jeweler to fix one broken pin? Also, I've read around that jewelers can't fix it. Of course, this a thread dating back in 2006.
Found this.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdDccsbv5hA[/media]
I really don't know what they charge because I've never tried to get one to fix a broken pin. They may laugh you out of the store, or charge some insane amount, or do it for a decent price, YMMV.
Though unlike Intel, AMD isn't so forthcoming about their socket pinouts. I can find design specs on the AM3 socket, but no pinouts. I think they require you to sign an NDA to get it, which is absurd.
Its fucked if you paid for it tell him your not taking it and send it back and get your money back.
You are going to go through too much if it is a data line.
It's free.
Put it in the socket and turn it on anyway.
Won't damage it any further I think.
That's what I've heard. It's a ground pin, then, it should be fine.
Well if it is a vital data pin, it won't boot, no harm done though.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;31682242]Well if it is a vital data pin, it won't boot, no harm done though.[/QUOTE]
One of two things can happen
1) Nothing will happen (good or bad)
2) It lets out smoke and its dead forever along with anything it was connected to.
[QUOTE=jordguitar;31687626]One of two things can happen
1) Nothing will happen (good or bad)
2) It lets out smoke and its dead forever along with anything it was connected to.[/QUOTE]
uh, no it won't.
Either it will boot or it won't. There's a slim chance that it will boot, and I'm pretty sure I read someone who broke a pin and booted but had massive instability or it won't boot.
There are 941 other pins... if one's broken it won't smoke.
940 actually. Not AM3+.
I had a possessor problem like this bent 3 pins and shat my pants i was so pissed. I ended up RMA to newegg or the next month a total of 3 times or various other reasons. tbh if i would have known any of this my first build would of been so much easier.
I just got the cpu. So, it's these two pins. One is bent[blue], the other is broken off(orange-ish).
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32409323/Images/pin.png[/img]
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