Build from used parts - can't figure whats wrong

[Toothless]

Them be some messed up pins. At this point you can try fixing them since its at worst a dead/dead situation.

 

[ebivan]

Ok, I'll get a beer (to get my handy steady) and a needle and will try benting them back in shape.
I just hope this wont damage the CPU on my next try or may even have damaged it already...

 

[Toothless]

Maybe you can get a refund on the listing since it's a damaged board.

 

[ebivan]

Maybe you can get a refund on the listing since it's a damaged board.

Will be hard to proof now weather bending happend when the previous owner removed their cpu or when I inserted mine though.

I made so many good deals over the years on second hand hardware, it saves me hundreds of bucks every year. So I guess every once in a while I have to hit a lemon. And its only 25 bucks.
Just the other day I bought a server board in perfect condition, that I looked for for weeks and finally got it for half the price that it usually goes. This deal alone saved me 150€.

I'll tell you guys in an hour or so if the surgery was a success...

 

[Hyderz]

hehe good ol socket surgery

 

[ebivan]

hehe good ol socket surgery

Too bad AMD will make the switch to the same mechanism with AM5. I find pin surgery on Ryzen to be much easier, at least those are not spring loaded...

 

[Mussels]

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Wow, I guess you guys were right! Or are these two meant to be bent backwards??

time for bendies!

 

[newtekie1]

Too bad AMD will make the switch to the same mechanism with AM5. I find pin surgery on Ryzen to be much easier, at least those are not spring loaded...

Yeah, but I find bent pins on Ryzen are far more common than on an LGA socket. You gotta really screw up to bend pins in the socket.

 

[Falkentyne]

When buying a used motherboard, always contact the seller to have them take a high resolution, timestamped (name and date on paper next to motherboard) picture with the motherboard socket pins. People are always selling defective boards they broke, or boards they bought broke from someone else, and advertising them as "working pull".

Of course on auction sites, this can be a bit difficult to do. On my last sell, I simply sold it on a discord channel, shown timestamped with the system fully running and another picture with everything disassembled and in like new condition (besides the dust). Z490 motherboard and a 10900k together. I left the CPU in the board though. Buyer was very happy with the purchase, considering he came from a wooden PC with prehistoric RAM (like 8 GB and a 4 core without HT).

 

[jaggerwild]

One lesson on bent pins, metal heats up when bent. Making it easier to break off, so if you have completely bent backwards pins. The trick is to bent them back in increments, so the metal won't heat up n be brittle. I've bent pins back in place, that were severally bent backwards.

 

[ebivan]

Hey guys, sorry for the late reply. The oparation was acomplete success. The Beast is alive! (Of course the case and the oversized cooler will be replaced soon, but for now this setup is much more easy to carry around. I already got a 2u cooler on the way and I am looking to a nice rack case to put in all in. But for now I will get to know OPNsense and finish the hardware, before it goes into productive use.

Thank you for your input!

 

[Hyderz]

Hey guys, sorry for the late reply. The oparation was acomplete success. The Beast is alive! (Of course the case and the oversized cooler will be replaced soon, but for now this setup is much more easy to carry around. I already got a 2u cooler on the way and I am looking to a nice rack case to put in all in. But for now I will get to know OPNsense and finish the hardware, before it goes into productive use.

Thank you for your input!

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very noice...