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I'm calling it on this Gigabyte board.

I can't repair this, the damage is too severe.

 

Really sucks to have to ditch it, it's a Z87X-UD5 TH. I can at least salvage the built in WLAN card for something, but this board is not gonna work and I'm not gonna try making it.

  1. xKyric

    xKyric

    How was it damaged?

  2. Crunchy Dragon

    Crunchy Dragon

    Socket was mangled. I got about halfway, but it was being really uncooperative.

     

    And one of the pins had been bent badly enough that I couldn't get it back up without breaking it(found that out when I got it back up), at which point I called it quits.

  3. xKyric

    xKyric

    Ah, that'll ruin a motherboard. 

    Was the board stored without a CPU? I've never understood how a socket can be messed up that badly. 

  4. Crunchy Dragon

    Crunchy Dragon

    Scrappers abuse hardware. Modern sockets are fairly delicate.

     

    Not a good combo.

  5. xKyric

    xKyric

    So that's were you got it from. How often do you go parts hunting?

  6. Crunchy Dragon

    Crunchy Dragon

    I believe the plan is once per week.

  7. xKyric

    xKyric

    Ohh, you have a plan. That's nice and orderly. 

  8. kelvinhall05

    kelvinhall05

    Damn, I wish I could join you guys lol. There's no ewaste recycling in London I can buy any electronics from, much less super cheap computer parts.

     

    also I have no one to go with lol

  9. Gegger

    Gegger

    The only place I could get stuff from "nearby" is FreeGeek, and I have no way of getting there

  10. kelvinhall05

    kelvinhall05

    Wait...business? I thought it was just you and @Crunchy Dragon having fun together, lol.

  11. xKyric

    xKyric

    @CUDAcores89, sounds like a nice business. Is it an official LCC? 

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