Bent pin motherboard

biffzinker · Mar 27, 2019

I've had the fun of bending back those lever pins. Bought a new board, and out the box with the protective cover still in place two pins were bent out of place compared to the rest.

TheMadDutchDude · Mar 27, 2019

That’s a super easy fix. When you have to solder a new pin in... that’s a different story.

The worst that’ll happen is that it won’t POST. Just try it and see. Not every pin is used.

Also, on top of that, the pins are fine. You can try to use a small flathead screwdriver to straighten them. There are plenty of ways.

Kikovic · Mar 28, 2019

HUSKIE said:
Hope OP will be updated us once he sorted, instead of making a long story here. You have loads idea already.

Sorry tonight i’m gonna try to see if the pc boots. If not well then i’ll try to repair the board myself.

Well here’s an update. Everything seems ok. System boot’s without any issue. Recognizes cpu and ram without issue and hdd... so thanks everyone for the help!

Here’s a pic of the bios

Chomiq · Mar 29, 2019

Just run some benchmarks just in case.

TheMadDutchDude · Mar 29, 2019

Perfect.

Honestly, no need to run any benchmarks. It’ll be fine.

Deleted member 24505 · Mar 29, 2019

Check to make sure the pci-e is at 16x as well

MrGenius · Mar 29, 2019

TheMadDutchDude said:
That’s a super easy fix.

No it isn't. It's a royal PITA. But it can be done.

TheMadDutchDude said:
When you have to solder a new pin in... that’s a different story.

It's a pretty short story too. Starts with..."You're insane". Followed immediately by..."That's impossible". End of story. :kookoo:

TheMadDutchDude said:
The worst that’ll happen is that it won’t POST.

That might be "the worst" that'll happen(barring a short circuit meltdown). But I've had other things, that were just as frustrating, happen from bent pins too. Such as system instability(random BSODs) and an inability to overclock the CPU and/or RAM to their full potential. In theory...a SHIT TON of bad things could happen.

Shambles1980 · Mar 29, 2019

MrGenius said:
It's a pretty short story too. Starts with..."You're insane". Followed immediately by..."That's impossible". End of story.

not impossible. But i doubt id want to test a cpu on it after i did it.

advanced3 · Apr 23, 2019

Last time a pin bent in one of my Z77 motherboards I bent it back and it worked fine for awhile. Then one day it wouldn't boot, turned out the pin eventually broke and having RAM in dual channel no longer worked. The RAM had to be in side by side slots for the board to even boot, forced my hand into finally upgrading from my 3770k though.

TheMadDutchDude · Apr 24, 2019

I’m honesty not too sure how to take such a comment... LOL. I soldered in a new pin just fine. It didn’t help the situation, but it was in there.

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