Motherboard issues

[Vudian]

Okay this has a bit of a story behind it. Back in 2016 i bought a new motherboard for my 4790k, i was changing chases and wanted to do a color change to match, after alot of searching i found a motherboard i liked to work with, z97 msi gaming 9. i could only find it for sale on ebay. i got it just to find out the pcie lanes wouldnt work. The person i got it from on ebay kept saying it was a new board and nothing was wrong with it. wouldnt give me a refund and ebay woudnt help ether. so i tried my luck with msi. MSI even tried to figure out what was wrong and was going to let me send it in to get it fixed, BUT it ended up bring a board not sold in the US so they wouldnt fix it for me... i ended up buying a msi gaming 6 and built my pc.

 

Now i have the issue that the pcie lanes will occasionally stop detecting my gpus, it looks like the wight of the cards is finally braking them. the computer has been moved alot over the years since then. i was cleaning out my old pc stuff and i found my gaming 9 motherboard. i was going to use it as decoration. i was cleaning dust off of it when i noticed a bent pin.  I tried to fix it using Linus method. i want to try and see if this fixed it but i dont want to burn out my cpu. how does this look?

[VinZie]

35 minutes ago, Vudian said:

Okay this has a bit of a story behind it. Back in 2016 i bought a new motherboard for my 4790k, i was changing chases and wanted to do a color change to match, after alot of searching i found a motherboard i liked to work with, z97 msi gaming 9. i could only find it for sale on ebay. i got it just to find out the pcie lanes wouldnt work. The person i got it from on ebay kept saying it was a new board and nothing was wrong with it. wouldnt give me a refund and ebay woudnt help ether. so i tried my luck with msi. MSI even tried to figure out what was wrong and was going to let me send it in to get it fixed, BUT it ended up bring a board not sold in the US so they wouldnt fix it for me... i ended up buying a msi gaming 6 and built my pc.

 

Now i have the issue that the pcie lanes will occasionally stop detecting my gpus, it looks like the wight of the cards is finally braking them. the computer has been moved alot over the years since then. i was cleaning out my old pc stuff and i found my gaming 9 motherboard. i was going to use it as decoration. i was cleaning dust off of it when i noticed a bent pin.  I tried to fix it using Linus method. i want to try and see if this fixed it but i dont want to burn out my cpu. how does this look?

Can you circle which pin that originally bent?

[Vudian]

i wish i could get the photos better but my phone will not focus on it any better then this.

[VinZie]

I came to the conclusion that the pin isn't perfectly there yet. Needs a tiny bit of adjustment away towards the middle hole where the dye usually sits when seated.

 

 

I matched the top of the perfect pins parallel with the top of the pin that was bent and by examining the other pictures from where the angle of the picture was taken it tells me it was definitely bent more towards the middle of the socket.

[Vudian]

19 minutes ago, VinZie said:

I came to the conclusion that the pin isn't perfectly there yet. Needs a tiny bit of adjustment away towards the middle hole where the dye usually sits when seated.

 

 

I matched the top of the perfect pins parallel with the top of the pin that was bent and by examining the other pictures from where the angle of the picture was taken it tells me it was definitely bent more towards the middle of the socket.

You would be correct with how it was bent, i will try to adjust it more, also get better photos, thank you for the help.

 

[Vudian]

Here are some better photos now that I have a much better light on it.  I did some more adjusting, not sure how much better I can do without a magnifying glass, the zoom stops being clear after a certain point 

[VinZie]

I would say it looks good! Give it a try.

[Vudian]

10 hours ago, VinZie said:

I would say it looks good! Give it a try.

Results so far. It use to not show anything in the pcie slots. I need to try and get it to boot next.