x58A-UD3R with endless reboot problem, maybe socket problem?

[snowPT]

hi,

 

i bought a x58A-UD3R some days including a i7 920 on the deal, fine. I knew it had this famous "endless reboot" problem that i confirmed when i got home. Haven't done any deep visual inspection on burned small smd caps or something but removed the CPU and for my surprise, some pins where not in good shape.

 

I can't take any pictures because my dslr camera lens it's not capable of zooming so far into the socket but i will drop here a image of the pins that seem to be "faulty":

 

 

The 2 pins that are surrounded by the yellow circle are:

 

Black - Vss

Red - Vcc

 

and the other 1 pin surrounded by red circle is QPI data.

 

So, i tried to bend those back into place, the QPI data pin seems to be in place but it's still deformed. The Vss and Vcc where bent back too but i noticed they don't had their "heads", seems like they were cutted (??) so those pins, even bent back to their original place. don't touch the CPU gold contacts.

 

After all this bending, tried the MB again, same problem.

 

May this be the problem of the endless reboot's? If i could confirm it I can buy a new socket and change it right away.

 

Thanks,

snow

[snowPT]

may i bump this?

 

new info: the motherboard loads up normaly but still no video if i either disconect CPU power or remove RAM.