Broke cpu pins.

[P12fan]

 

i was installing a new cooler and i pulled the stock amd one off straight up for some reason(it was a long day) and the cpu went with it. There was two pins missing after that there not in the socket and I’ve excepted the cpu is dead. I bought a 3500x years ago planing to upgrade. But I have a rog strix

b550-f and I’m not getting any boot lights it still has rgb. In a perfect world I’d like to know if the mobo is dead before I order a new cpu.

[heliusm]

Some of the pins are not required for CPU operation. Does it work with the missing pins?

[Needfuldoer]

Please post a clear photo of the damage. Without seeing it, we can only guess.

[PDifolco]

41 minutes ago, P12fan said:

 

i was installing a new cooler and i pulled the stock amd one off straight up for some reason(it was a long day) and the cpu went with it. There was two pins missing after that there not in the socket and I’ve excepted the cpu is dead. I bought a 3500x years ago planing to upgrade. But I have a rog strix

b550-f and I’m not getting any boot lights it still has rgb. In a perfect world I’d like to know if the mobo is dead before I order a new cpu.

Are you sure pins broke off completely ? Many AM4 users (me included) ripped off their CPU while removing the cooler, due to the extremely bad "retention" mechanism, but usually some pins are only bent not broken

Look at it with some lens

[P12fan]

11 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Please post a clear photo of the damage. Without seeing it, we can only guess.

 

[P12fan]

6 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Are you sure pins broke off completely ? Many AM4 users (me included) ripped off their CPU while removing the cooler, due to the extremely bad "retention" mechanism, but usually some pins are only bent not broken

Look at it with some lens

I thought they were bent at first but there completely gone 

[P12fan]

50 minutes ago, P12fan said:

 

i was installing a new cooler and i pulled the stock amd one off straight up for some reason(it was a long day) and the cpu went with it. There was two pins missing after that there not in the socket and I’ve excepted the cpu is dead. I bought a 3500x years ago planing to upgrade. But I have a rog strix

b550-f and I’m not getting any boot lights it still has rgb. In a perfect world I’d like to know if the mobo is dead before I order a new cpu.

Here’s the motherboard I don’t see anything visible,  but I’ve been wrong before 

[P12fan]

Just now, P12fan said:

Here’s the motherboard I don’t see anything visible,  but I’ve been wrong before 

 

[P12fan]

59 minutes ago, HeliusMagnum said:

Some of the pins are not required for CPU operation. Does it work with the missing pins?

It does not, the mobo booting lights don’t even turn on. Rgb works jus won’t post or show any sign of trying 

 

[SavageNeo]

6 minutes ago, P12fan said:

It does not, the mobo booting lights don’t even turn on. Rgb works jus won’t post or show any sign of trying 

 

sounds like broken cpu to me. My 5800X3D has 2 broken pins, but works fine. I guess you had 2 important pins breaking off.

 

One thing is that you should see if the cpu is evenly in the slot, for me it was not, which was why it was not booting. use a flashlight and see if all the sides are in the smae height.

 

[heliusm]

5 hours ago, SavageNeo said:

sounds like broken cpu to me. My 5800X3D has 2 broken pins, but works fine. I guess you had 2 important pins breaking off.

 

One thing is that you should see if the cpu is evenly in the slot, for me it was not, which was why it was not booting. use a flashlight and see if all the sides are in the smae height.

 

One of the pins look like it is the spi_clk. So it makes sense because without it, the cpu won't fetch the ROM and the it won't boot.

[Whatisthis]

If you have an old dead cpu / donor part, you can try to break two pins off it and put them in the socket holes where you are now missing pins. It’s a last ditch, but that thing is toast without the missing pins.

[zaprqn]

Pins can be resoldered from an old cpu to this one, but its a 100$ cpu new, and 60$ used, so depending on where you are finding someone willing to do it for a price that makes sense and skilled enough to not mess it up might be a hard task. 

 

If you have already decided to upgrade you can still order a better CPU and test, unless you are thinking about going AM5 or Intel, then if the motherboard isnt working you are going to need a new one either way, not an ideal situation to do but you will have the return option on the CPU too.