Mobo pins

[LunaWolf]

I've been looking for a bit and cant find anything so far. Does anyone know where/if pins can be bought for an LGA2066 socket? I reached out to an overseas company yesterday, but I'm not sure if they would sale to me.

[Blue4130]

30 minutes ago, LunaWolf said:

I've been looking for a bit and cant find anything so far. Does anyone know where/if pins can be bought for an LGA2066 socket? I reached out to an overseas company yesterday, but I'm not sure if they would sale to me.

For what? The pins are not user serviceable.

[RONOTHAN##]

The socket itself can usually be bought, not the individual pins themselves. Even so, to replace the socket requires quite expensive smd soldering gear, so unless you own a board repair shop, you're not gonna get this replaced. 

[-rascal-]

The socket, along with ALL the pins, is one single component.

You cannot just replace/repair a SINGLE pin. The ENTIRE socket has to be replaced.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

i think there are workarounds for snapped off pins ranging from putting solder on the cpu pads to attempting to solder on another pin onto the broken pin but good luck getting that to work or even last a few uses

 

Ideally youd want to replace the socket entirely just that if you dont want to pay thousands of $ youll have to build the equipment yourself or mod some existing equipment which there are a few youtube vids on it

 

Alot of them are smaller ones for gpus and afaik you want to preheat the entire board to around 200c then you can just point a heatgun or any heat source of your choice (can be an ir heater for example) at the socket and wait for it to desolder

 

Heres what the process looks like

 

Afaik desoldering without preheating whilst yeilding decent results looks to be possible as i have seen dawids tech make a vid on baking gpus where he put a heatgun to a gpu chip to attempt to fix it whilst following a solder heat curve and it worked after but i cant find the video anymore, ofc gpu chip isnt taken off but the solders melted so you can take the gpu chip off

 

If you want to take this dubious route you can cut the bga rework station entirely and only need your heatgun, basic soldering tools, alongside some solder paste and a stencil but good luck getting it to work as its probably gonna take a decent chunk of effort to even give it a chance of working as its more suited to gpus particularly the smaller lower end gpus, oh and youll have to preheat the pcb before you solder the thing back on which sounds very fun with just a heatgun