need help figuring out wich of these pins is broke ..

[i found nemo]

i just got the cpu for $20 bux venice ... but 1 pin was broke andn when i put it in it give me repeating long beeps ( mem? )



my thumb is by the broken pin ( upper left corner )



and there's the close up ...

i would rma but it's not worth it ..

[Morais]

you can try solder the pin back , but I never done it and I dont know if its the best aid.

[Sparky]

I could fix that, pretty simple too being right on the corner! Half of my crunchers are running on repaired pin CPUs (one of them has like 4 pins replaced lol).

[firebane]

I've heard you can get a thin piece of copper to put into the socket and make it JUST long enough to touch the bottom of the chip where the broken pin was and that works.

Never tried it.. just heard.

[BenchZowner]

Firebane's suggestion definitely works ( as I've personally done that in the past ).
You can also re-solder the pin or even "create" a new one

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

If you still have the old pin, sometimes you can get lucky and just stick it in its appropriate hole in the socket. If you're lucky, there will be enough contact and it'll all work.

[i found nemo]

lol back fired. damn. i dunno what happened but there's a burn spot on my mobo, and i'm not goin' to keep throwin' cpu's in there, but i got two dead ones now .... the burn spot is in the socket.

i'm just gunna get a ml34 and a biostar nf325-a7 just tryin' to get it back up, cuz i dunno when i'm ordering my new system ... stupid bills

http://3btech.net/binfnf3so754.html

mobo ^^

http://www.ascendtech.us/itemdesc.as...34181M&eq=&Tp=

cpu - that's quite a deal too, 20 bux for a 1mb l2 ... shoulda just got that to begin with ..