A bent pin

[Guest]

How do i know if the cpu socket has a bent pin?

[79wjd]

Do any of the pins look bent? (if you're unsure, post a picture -- not a potato picture please)

[Guest]

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

Do any of the pins look bent? (if you're unsure, post a picture -- not a potato picture please)

i cant get close enough with the camera to the pins to even tell

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, Endrivia said:

i cant get close enough with the camera to the pins to even tell

Try from an angle maybe? 

 

If you really can't get a good clean shot, then get the best that you can. 

[DominicNikon]

close focus len needed? http://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/camera-lenses/af-s-micro-nikkor-60mm-f%2f2.8g-ed.html

[Godlygamer23]

8 minutes ago, Endrivia said:

i cant get close enough with the camera to the pins to even tell

Check to see if they're crooked. It might be worth it to get to an eye-level with the socket as well if possible.

[Guest]

This is as close i could get.

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Edited August 27, 2016 by Guest
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[jeonjaeng]

Push the CPU as hard as you can to the socket to get a base sample, see all the ones that are lying against the bottom of the socket now??? These are all the bent ones. Just send us a picture

[Guest]

Is it not showing?

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, jeonjaeng said:

Push the CPU as hard as you can to the socket to get a base sample, see all the ones that are lying against the bottom of the socket now??? These are all the bent ones. Just send us a picture

i did

[Godlygamer23]

4 minutes ago, Endrivia said:

This is as close i could get

I fixed your post to show the images, and stuck them in spoilers to prevent excessive scrolling.

 

As far as the pictures are concerned, I do not see any bent pins.

[zJordan]

Neither do I, if there is a bent pin anywhere its going to be on the bottom of your photo, that is to blurry to make out.

[jeonjaeng]

This is what a bent cpu socket looks like

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Edited August 27, 2016 by Godlygamer23
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[Godlygamer23]

2 minutes ago, jeonjaeng said:

This is what a bent cpu socket looks like

Thanks for giving me nightmares tonight.

 

What's worse? Boogeyman or bent pins? Bent pins for me.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, zJordan said:

Neither do I, if there is a bent pin anywhere its going to be on the bottom of your photo, that is to blurry to make out.

Its not in that area it looks weird in real life i dont know how to explain.

[Godlygamer23]

Just now, Endrivia said:

Its not in that area it looks weird in real life i dont know how to explain.

Well, you'll have to show us somehow and circle what you're looking at.

[jeonjaeng]

3 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Thanks for giving me nightmares tonight.

 

What's worse? Boogeyman or bent pins? Bent pins for me.

Lol you didnt even hear the RMA story behind it... Some guy accidently put thermal compound into the CPU socket then tried to use a wet towel to wipe it up

[Guest]

Just now, Godlygamer23 said:

Well, you'll have to show us somehow and circle what you're looking at.

Thats the thing it looks fine in the picture but to my eye it looks different.

[79wjd]

Just now, Endrivia said:

Thats the thing it looks fine in the picture but to my eye it looks different.

What part looks different? 

[Godlygamer23]

Just now, jeonjaeng said:

Lol you didnt even hear the RMA story behind it... Some guy accidently put thermal compound into the CPU socket then tried to use a wet towel to wipe it up

The first problem was the towel. Those pins are very fragile.

[jeonjaeng]

Lol no the first problem was putting thermal compuond on a CPU socket instead of a CPU. And this isn't mine i found it on the ASUS facebook

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, jeonjaeng said:

Lol no the first problem was putting thermal compuond on a CPU socket instead of a CPU. And this isn't mine i found it on the ASUS facebook

It probably would've worked fine if he had just left the thermal paste in the socket and didn't try to wipe it up. 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

What part looks different? 

The left side of the socket

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

It probably would've worked fine if he had just left the thermal paste in the socket and didn't try to wipe it up. 

The problem is that if you have non-conductive paste, that can actually cause the pins to become isolated from the conductor pad on the CPU.

 

And it would be considered FOD if it were found at my workplace(I don't think we use socketed chips though. They're all soldered to the board). Basically, it doesn't belong in the socket, and needs to come out anyways.

[79wjd]

Just now, Godlygamer23 said:

The problem is that if you have non-conductive paste, that can actually cause the pins to become isolated from the conductor pad on the CPU.

 

And it would be considered FOD if it were found at my workplace(I don't think we use socketed chips though. They're all soldered to the board). Basically, it doesn't belong in the socket, and needs to come out anyways.

If he would have just gotten it off the tips of each of the pins it would've been find, and doing that probably wouldn't have caused too much damage.