Cpu pin stuck in motherboard

[Alan GE]

Hello.

 

I removed my cpu from the mother bòard to install a new one .

 

I noticed that a pin is stuck in one of the socket's holes.

 

no force is used to remove the cpu.

 

 

So can this  motherboard  be fixed or should i buy a new one?

 

Help

[Bombastinator]

Very occasionally one can break an electrical connection like that which is a duplicate ground or something and the chip will still boot even if it will have wonky behavior in some situations.  Most of the time it just fails though.  I’m thinking this has to be a ryzen pga, in which case you should be able to take some tweezers and after putting on an anti static strap you can simply remove the pin from the hole.  There’s a decent chance it was just badly soldered and simply came off. It is not completely impossible to solder the pin back onto the cpu (depending on the shape the pin is in) but it’s not an easy job either.