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Recently I discovered that my motherboard had a couple pins bent. I fixed a couple of them but one of them broke. I am able to set the pin so the computer boots but it is really finicky and I have to do it basically every time I boot. I found online that the pin the is broken is a iGPU power pin. I have a graphics card so once my computer boots it doesn't matter if the pin isn't set. My bios is set to use the PCIe graphics card first but my computer still won't boot without the pin in place. I'm wondering if there is a way to disable the check for the iGPU so it will post without it? I know there are some CPUs that don't even have integrated graphics like the xeons could those possibly work? Any ideas would be appreciated, Thanks.

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What socket are you using? I don't think there's anyway to get a computer to boot with a missing pin, even with a CPU that doesn't have an iGPU. I'd honestly just recommend getting a new motherboard.

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Just now, Fixinit1 said:

What socket are you using? I don't think there's anyway to get a computer to boot with a missing pin, even with a CPU that doesn't have an iGPU. I'd honestly just recommend getting a new motherboard.

you can depending on what the pin is used for. Not all pins do something. There are many that are reserved and not actually used. 

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1 minute ago, Fixinit1 said:

What socket are you using?

It's lga 1155. I've looked into getting a new board but it's basically cheaper if I can just buy a xeon and use it on this board. 

4 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

you can depending on what the pin is used for. Not all pins do something. There are many that are reserved and not actually used. 

I used this to get it to boot. I pulled out one of the reserved pins and put it in the slot where the pin broke. Unfortunately it isn't a permanent solution because it won't stay in contact if the computer is bumped or moved to much. I basically have to reseat the pin between every boot.

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8 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

you can depending on what the pin is used for. Not all pins do something. There are many that are reserved and not actually used. 

And also if the pin is used for grounding, a missing grounding pin will not likely affect the functionality of the CPU since there are many others.

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