amd pins bent?

[SinCrisis]

Hey all,

I recently got a AMD Athlon processor and it has 3 pins on one side bent at 90 degrees. Can i just bend these back or would it just break off? I just got it so i can RMA it to newegg for a replacement but i would prefer to not wait a week before being able to build my system. Can anyone help?

[Deviance]

I think it would certainly be worth the wait. I wouldn't risk snapping off the pins.

[SXRguyinMA]

:stupid: I agree 100%, RMA it, wait and do it properly :up:

[nevermind1534]

A little problem there; newegg says they won't RMA CPUs with bent pins. Maybe if it's a nice person, who understands that it came like that, they'll let it through.

[SinCrisis]

wait really? i thought i could file it under defective... ill see if they will take it, if not will just tweezers work?

[Bopher]

tweezers would probably work, but I'm with the above try to RMA. Those pins are very delicate. If they won't RMA and you want to risk it you need to take it very slowly. once you get the pins mostly up use a credit card to keep slowly moving them till they are straight. But again I am with everybody else on the RMA try.

[x88x]

I would definitely recommend at least trying to RMA it to NewEgg first. Try emailing/calling them; in my limited experience with their customer service (long-time customer, just never had to use their CS), they were very accommodating. They let me RMA my MBB even though it was outside of the 30-day warranty they put on it, and they even let me not send the back-plate (I'd already painted it).

If that fails, it's entirely possible that you could bend them up and it'd be fine, I've done it before. Personally I recommend a thin, sharp knife. And go SLOW; too fast and you run the risk of snapping it. Copper is nice and ductile though, so it's likely that it would go off without a hitch.

[Datech]

Try the RMA first, but if you can't see below.

Best way to bend pins back: Get a mechanical pencil and fit the pencil end onto the pin. The pin should slide right up the tube the lead comes out. Go VERY slowly and gradually bend it back in place. You'll probably want to use a pencil with .07 mm lead, but if it fits it fits.

[SinCrisis]

thanks for all the advice, a friend of mine actually came over and i told him the problem and he just went and fixed ti with tweezers... in like.. 5 minutes. And it fit and everything and the computer seems to run ok, alebeit a bit slower than i expected but i have no idea if its just cuz of my set up or some other factor... should i take it out and examine it? or just leave it?

[Zephik]

For future reference and I don't know if anyone recommened this already since I didn't read through the thread, but credit cards and similar items work GREAT for bent processor pins.

[x88x]

thanks for all the advice, a friend of mine actually came over and i told him the problem and he just went and fixed ti with tweezers... in like.. 5 minutes. And it fit and everything and the computer seems to run ok, alebeit a bit slower than i expected but i have no idea if its just cuz of my set up or some other factor... should i take it out and examine it? or just leave it?

You don't really need to examine it (unless you want to, in which case, sure, why not :D ), if it works, then the pins got aligned correctly. What's the rest of you setup? Maybe we can help you figure out why it's slow.

[progbuddy]

thanks for all the advice, a friend of mine actually came over and i told him the problem and he just went and fixed ti with tweezers... in like.. 5 minutes. And it fit and everything and the computer seems to run ok, alebeit a bit slower than i expected but i have no idea if its just cuz of my set up or some other factor... should i take it out and examine it? or just leave it?

If you smell smoke and your computer isn't humming anymore, it's not working.

[SinCrisis]

ok well, when i first used it, its in a shelf, it smelled a faintly like fried hardware. I installed the OS and everything and after one of the updates i got a blue screen. After a hard reboot, its been fine, no smell nothing, its just a bit warm in the back, pretty standard for a case in a cabinet yea?

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ASUS M3N78-EM AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8300 HDMI
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Western Digital Caviar SE WD5000AAJS 500GB 7200RPM SATA
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[farlo]

ive always found a mechanical pencil to be best for straightening pins.
make sure they have no led in them, and slide the pin into the hole at the bottom, and slowly bend it back into place. im not sure how well itll work for a 90* bend though