I broke a pin when I installed my new cpu. I know some of the pins on these processors are unassigned and do nothing. How can I either fix the broken pin or find out if it does anything.
how are you at soldering small things. me , i'd be able to fix it as that was my thing working at Celestica working on computer boards & cell Nokia cell phones with components 1mm across. i even do it now for my computer customers
Its a very tiny pin. I don't think I could do it. Besides I do not have a soldering iron that could even come close to getting in there.
you have 4 choices then 1:take it to an electronic technician to fix it, 2:take it to a jeweller as they solder small things as it has gold on the pins, 3lug it in & cross your fingers, eyes & toes that works & not blow up, 4:buy new processor & scrap that one
Well there are 754 pins... And, you still have four choices, right? That's a nice CPU ($225 bucks Canadian) Hope you can sort it out. All the technical info will be available somewhere on AMD's website. The Socket 754 is a standard, so all the pin info is common knowledge for the mobo manufacturers. Personally, I like the Jeweler idea Those pins are quite stout, for the tiny signals that run through them... The repair should work perfectly, and would be undetectable. Good Luck _X_X_X_X_X_[small] ABIT AN7 nForce2 Ultra 400 XP2500+ Barton @ 3200+ 2 x 512MB PC3200[/small]
baabaa, nope head plant in toronto, ontario, canada. worked on nokia cellphones, sun microsystems & cisco systems. was there 4yrs 5months
tomstop, just got off the phone with a friend who i told about your broken pin, he says that cpu is made differently from previous chips(glue instead of solder), it has something like 3 yr warranty. contact amd california for possible warranty replacement as long as you still have the original packaging
I will certainly give that a try. What more do you know about the glue thing? I have been looking up jewelry repair in the Yellow pages. Thanks for your help.
when the pin broke off, did break & left a stump or did it come of like a tree & root ball. if the 1st then solder will work but not glue, if the 2nd than conductive glue like used to fix rear de-foggers on cars can be used if there is a trace wire to were pin sits. if no trace wire to pin but a blank pin use crasy glue
sorry, try the warranty & see what happens but also check with jeweller for possible fix. if you had been closeby i might have been able to fix
