Bent pin motherboard

[Kikovic]

Hello

I bought a motherboard 2nd hand and received it with what i believe is a bent pin. Do you think the motherboard is broken? I have not tested it because i do not want to damage my cpu. I have attached some photo’s. The motherboard is an asus prime b360-plus.

 

[dorsetknob]

To my tired eyes that looks ok
your only find out by fitting a CPU

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Not the only bent pin, the one i have circled has the end bent up.

 

[E-Bear]

You could just unbend it with a tweezer for eyebrows. I did in the past and sold the computer afterward. Person still had it in possession and came see me 3 years after for a refresh. So yes it could probably be fixed.

 

[Caring1]

Hello

I bought a motherboard 2nd hand and received it with what i believe is a bent pin. Do you think the motherboard is broken? I have not tested it because i do not want to damage my cpu. I have attached some photo’s. The motherboard is an asus prime b360-plus.

Return the board for your money back.

 

[Jetster]

Send it back, or unless he wants to refund it. You can straighten it if your good, but I wouldn't touch it unless it was free

The problem is even if you fix it, and it works. You can still tell it was bent. Which is probably what your looking at

 

[Kikovic]

Returning the board is not an option. So basiclly i got ripped off...

 

[Jetster]

Then try it. Its not going to damage your CPU

 

[aQi]

There is not point of damaging the cpu. Unfortunately the way im seeing it its on the cpu contact part of the socket. If the pin wont contact with the print on processor you wont get it posting.
The way its bent it may bend even more if you place the cpu in it.
If its a sold as then try it with a tweezer and with a place with more light.

 

[HUSKIE]

Nah it can't damage the Cpu if you install her with bent Cpu pin. Tried many times, but you might/might not getting signal or post or ram problem. Look I had this z87 gigabyte Motherboard and loads of broken/bents pin and still working but two ram slots not working.

 

[Komshija]

You can gently straighten bent pin with mini tweezers or with toothpick or with sewing needle, but working on such tiny area with these miniature pins is a major PITA. Not to even mention there's a high risk of breaking the pin or making it worse than it was before.
The bending doesn't appear to be serious, so I assume that it should work correctly. First try installing all necessary hardware and see it it the system powers up correctly.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Nah it can't damage the Cpu if you install her with bent Cpu pin. Tried many times, but you might/might not getting signal or post or ram problem. Look I had this z87 gigabyte Motherboard and loads of broken/bents pin and still working but two ram slots not working.

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Yikes, that is bad. My Z370 Rog board had a few that caused pci-e to run at x1 but managed to sort it.

 

[Vario]

Hello

I bought a motherboard 2nd hand and received it with what i believe is a bent pin. Do you think the motherboard is broken? I have not tested it because i do not want to damage my cpu. I have attached some photo’s. The motherboard is an asus prime b360-plus.

Looks like an easy fix. Just take a tiny sewing pin, or a tweezer, or the plastic bezel from the end of a mechanical pencil, and gently straighten the socket's pin so it matches the neighbors.

 

[Bones]

Yours isn't that bad off - This is what I faced when I first got the board I'm posting this with.

Had to get myself a magnifying visor to help do the work with but wasn't bad. Yours from what I tell has no actual broken pins and that's something in your favor, this one has two but luckily those are in spots where it doesn't matter or I wouldn't be able to use it.
You've nothing to lose from what I'm gathering here, Get a magnifyng apparatus of some kind to help, a needle or something very small to work with and go for it like I did. I'd never done one before myself and made it work, yours is better off than this one was so should be alot easier to fix too.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Yours isn't that bad off - This is what I faced when I first got the board I'm posting this with.
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Had to get myself a magnifying visor to help do the work with but wasn't bad. Yours from what I tell has no actual broken pins and that's something in your favor, this one has two but luckily those are in spots where it doesn't matter or I wouldn't be able to use it.
You've nothing to lose from what I'm gathering here, Get a magnifyng apparatus of some kind to help, a needle or something very small to work with and go for it like I did. I'd never done one before myself and made it work, yours is better off than this one was so should be alot easier to fix too.

Holy Hell, well done sorting that mess out. There should be a socket fixers pin badge.

Here are my very thin tweezers i used, less than 1mm wide tips

 

[Bones]

Thanks man, I wasn't sure myself of it when I first got the board. Bent pins are one thing, it's when you have them broken is what would spell the death of a board. Unless you have the means to redo the socket that's what it would be, a dead board but bent pins in most cases can be fixed as long as you're careful in the process of fixing it.
Main thing is to be sure the tips of the pins are where they should be relative to the others and bent upward enough to have sufficient contact pressure with the CPU's pads if they are curled or something, has one that was deformed but did that and it's working just fine after a year's worth of use and even a little OC'ing too along the way.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

The worst thing is if the little curled bit on the end breaks off, as the pin even bent up wont reach the pad on CPU.

 

[Bones]

That's true, the one I had resembled a hair even with the magnifying visor I was using. Took the time to get it nudged where it should be and the tip in the right place to make contact with it's CPU pad. I'll also say I had to be sure I had no pins touching others after the work was done, as long as all that is right it has a chance.

Alot of the time pins just get pushed over to one side and are very easy to fix, it's when they become deformed it's more challenging but can be fixed in many cases. You just have to remember it's inherently weaker because it's already bent in the first place so don't bend it any more than what's required to get it right.
I double-checked the entire socket from end to end, I found a couple that were "Just" off but this wasn't apparent until close inspection revealed these as bent and fixed them too.

I'll also say I didn't use tweezers, just a miniature scratch awl tool that had a slightly bent tip that worked perfectly for snagging them and to do what I wanted with them.

 

[HUSKIE]

I used one of these better that tweezers,

 

[Bones]

That's roughly what I was using, mine was straight with the absolute tip of it bent - Didn't do that for the job, it was already bent and just worked out in my favor that way.

 

[MrGenius]

Just be gentle with them. I've had a couple break off trying to straighten them. I broke the curved tip off one, and the other one snapped off at the "hinge".

If all else fails you can have the entire socket replaced.
https://ps3specialist.com/computer-motherboard-damaged-cpu-socket-replacement-service/

 

[HUSKIE]

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

 

[Jetster]

They don't look bad I would just try it. Every time you touch them they get more fragile.
Just keep in mind, they may have already been worked on and this is the results of bending them back

 

[Vario]

With a small sewing needle you can use the loop end to hook the tip of the CPU socket pin and gently orient it.

 

[cornemuse]

Take the lead out of a .5mm mechanical pencil, (one with a small metal end where the lead comes out), slip it over the bent pin on (whatever) & 'rotate till its (pencil is parallel to the 'good' pins. If still bent go a lil bit more. It f thats good, you know how far to bend with pencil to straighten them. BE CAREFUL !!