Broken pin 1150

[Dannykb16]

hey people i got a problem,

 

at my school we had an ASrock B85M-Pro4 laying around, unfortunately some of the socket pins were bent.

i tried fixing these with tweezers but as i tried to bent 1 of them back it snapped.

all the other bent back succesfully and seem to be alright.

now i wonder, should i try the MB or consider it dead?

i have no pictures and am not familiar with the pin layout.

 

if you have any tips on how to fix it or if it will run without the pin please let me know.

thanks in advance

[Hugsy Malone]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this would cause an issue in terms of breaking any other components.... So you could give it a test?

[Dujith]

You can run it with the missing pin. It might be a PCIE lane or something else. But you wont know till you try it.

I would just try it and see what happens. Do some stress tests if it boots into Windows, you might be lucky.

[Thermosman]

You can try it, it mihht have just been a extra ground or etc. It may cause wierd problems, like missingg a channel of ram

[Herman Mcpootis]

it's possible that the pin you broke is redundant or non-critical, so you can try running it as usual and see if it works. if it doesn't but there's enough pin left, you can try moving it up so that it touches the contacts anyway.

[Dujith]

If you feel like it go through the data sheet. There you can find what the pin does.

[Dannykb16]

Dujith, thank you.

i found out the pins (i broke a 2nd one) i broke where VSS aka power pins.

i thank you all for the support and help.

i will surely test it when i get a cpu to test it with and keep you guys posted with the result.