How to Fix Bent Pins on a CPU?

Answer 1

Unbend them. Be very careful that you don't break them off.

Answer 2

Ahhh! You just went to install your CPU into your motherboard and bent some of the pins! Now it won't mount and you're looking at paying hundreds of dollars to replace your CPU. How do you fix it without buying a new one, breaking the pins completely off, or bending more pins and making it worse?
Steps

1. Place the CPU on a hard surface with the top down and the pins facing straight into the air. Be sure you have discharged any static electricity by touching a grounded metal object.
2. Get your wallet and pull out your credit cards, giftcards, and ID's.
3. Find a row on your CPU that has no bent pins in it. Take one of your cards, stand it on edge and run it through the row of pins. If the card is the right thickness it should slide between the pins with slight resistance and no bending of the pins. If the card is too thin it will slide through too easily. If the card is too thick you will not be able to slide the card through the pins without bowing out or bending pins.
4. Once you find a card of the right thickness run it through the various rows with bent pins in all 4 directions; for example, if there is one bent pin, run the card in the rows surrounding it, much like the # symbol; this will bend the pin straight in each direction.
5. Some pins will be so bent that they touch other pins or bent crooked so that they do not straighten up properly. Try the tip of a 0.5mm mechanical pencil; it fits right over one pin. Bring it from the bent position to the straight up and down position.
6. Attempt to mount the CPU. If it doesn't slide right in the socket, retry the preceding steps. Do not attempt to shove or jam the CPU in.


Tips

* Best Buy gift cards seem to fit perfectly for some odd reason.
* Always use the side farthest from the magnetic strip on the card; the strip likely won't affect your CPU, but it's better to be safe than sorry. Once again, Best Buy gift cards have no magnetic strip, so they work. Just find a card with a good thickness and no strip.
* Hold the CPU up and look through it to try and find all the bent pins. If it isn't mounting, look especially for single bent pins towards the center, as they are hard to spot and you may have missed one.
* If it isn't mounting, feel where it is sticking. If it is mounting in every corner but one, find the bent pin(s) in that corner.


Warnings

* Do not bend the pins too much. They do not have to be perfect; as long as they are close, when you close the CPU socket, it will push them straight. However, if you bend them too much trying to be perfectionistic, they may break off.
* Do not forget to apply the thermal goo on top of the CPU if you had to take the heatsink off.
* In most modern processors, the CPU pins are made from very thin wire plated with gold, and as such, are very soft, pliable, and break very easily. There is no way to replace broken pins on a CPU, unless you have special equipment and skill.
* Google search "cpu pin repair" for commercial options.
* Having improperly installed or handled the CPU (unless it arrived with bent pins) will void your warranty on the CPU.


Things You'll Need

* A CPU
* A gift card, credit card, or ID
* A 0.5mm mechanical pencil
* A failsafe plan if you screw up the processor

Answer 3

unbent the pins and fix to cpu

Answer 4

Try unbending them carefully. If any of them are broken, it would be in your best interest to either have a professional computer tech fix it if possible, or just replace it.

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Answer 5

ususally what i do is use a needle or a narrow nail file to approximate them, than i soc\ket from a trashed board to form them back...in the future mount them in sponge padding from a package sent to you or meshed together with a rubber band if you have more than one and the problem shouldnt reappear.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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