How to Fix Bent Motherboard Pins
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2013
- Got a motherboard with bent socket pins? It's actually pretty simple to fix, provided the pins aren't too badly bent. Give it a go!
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I've bent back like 10 to 15 pins on a damaged AMD Athlon X4 860K, and guess what...
I'm typing this comment on the machine running this CPU now :)
Nice :)
+deWaardt I think i may have bent my Z170A motherboard pins but there are really small so i can hardly see then do you think it is fixable and i dont know how many are bent can i still put a CPU in or what
+joshua maddock with bent pins you can't put your CPU in, not at all. You can try to bend them back, if you don't think you can do it, you could try to ask some tech savvy person who might want to do this for you :)
+deWaardt 15? Try all of it. I pulled the stock cooler and the processor goes with it (Phenom X4 955). Well, to this date, it is still working.
Fortunately AMD CPU's use PGA sockets so the pins are on the CPU, making them fairly easy to bend back.
Fortunately I've never had an LGA socket motherboard with bent pins.
10 years ago. Look at where you are now.. Great achievement Mate.. All your works are incredible..
Your video has given me hope and encouragement. Even just trying to fix the pins will make me feel less dumb about having bent them in the first place. Great contribution.
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This video is a little bit old, but I'd like to thank you for it. I was just about to go replacing an expensive CPU because of an intermittent boot-up/shut-down until I looked closely and realized I had bent some of the pins on the motherboard. Followed the video step by step and now the computer works just fine! Thank you for saving my business! I'm lost without a working computer!
OMG Thank you!! I found a $200 motherboard in a e waste bin i took it and nothing was wrong with it but the cpu socket pin were bent (only like 4-5 of them)! you probably will not read this but i have to thank you for show me this(there is no other video show this on youtube like your!) Thank you
The motherboard is a ASUS P7H5D-V EVO
@@TjMag. Yo i found 4 of them and 3 other asus ones for 50$ planning on fixing them. How dod yours go?
@@yaaaboiflexi7114 it went good, I got a cpu for the motherboard, an i7-980 off kijiji for like $40, and I bought a 1050ti and it has work perfectly for about 4 years
@@yaaaboiflexi7114 over all I spend under $200 for probably best price to performance pc out there at the time. There was no issue that I occurred other then a few bios issues, so I recommend taking the time and learning how to bios flash the motherboards
@@TjMag. after watching tech yes city he inspired me to get a Xeon x3440. Got one for 12$ on AliExpress. I am using one one of the boards (an EVGA ) with 16gb ram and a 780. I’d say that whole build with case and psu was 130$. Crazy performance too.
9 years ago I bought a new motherboard which I booted up and it quickly shut down and was permanently dead. Thinking it was my fault, I threw it in the closet and kept it in storage until I saw this video today. I took a closer look at it and saw the pins were bent, likely a manufacturing defect I didn't notice years ago. I corrected the pins and it's working now! Now I can give a working PC to a family member. Thank you so much!
Thanks this helped a lot!
Today I accidentally bent a few pins, and thought to myself: that's it for this motherboard, but thanks to your video I've successfully repaired it! You've made my day!
Thank you very much for posting this video. Using it as a guide, I managed to save my new motherboard which had some bent pins (and was heading for the scrapheap)! My own fault I must add, but you have just saved me the cost of a replacement board :)
Definitely useful! I have bought plenty of dual core. Dual processor motherboards and been too scared to try. I'm not nervous now to give it a go as I just bought a brand new MB very high end and it has 2 bent pins! Thank you for assisting my confidence in this as EVERYONE resells boards with bent pins SNEAKILY not mentioning BENT PINS! And The end up DIRT CHEAP! And move around the world... Cheers bro
I used to work repairing PCs (many years ago). Re-aligning pins like this was quite common, on IDE drives and on fpga processors. Like the man said, if you are careful / gentle this works quite well.
He reminds me of Theon Greyjoy. Nonetheless, fantastic video!
and i was wondering who he reminds me!
Just got to your video. I can't believe that it worked after you bent them back into place. That is crazy cool. Great job man.
Loving the videos dude! Honestly some of the best content I've seen for a long time :) Great job man :)
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I knew it was nearly impossible to fix those pins but i took all the advices you said and IT WORKED! Great videos! Greatings from Ecuador!
I think seeing you get excited when it fired up the first time made this video well worth the watch. :-)
Your enthusiasm rocks.
Did this for a friend of a friend a few months ago. Was pretty intimidating on an expensive board (Z87-GD65). I used the same little screw driver's you have and spent a good 45 min on it (20-30 bent pins). Comparing to the rest of the row worked best and also not worrying about getting them perfect. Luckily I didn't snap any pins and it booted!
Really helpful video. I need to do this myself since I have a motherboard with a single bent pin as well.
But anyone attempting this should also check whether all their RAM slots are working as well because the intel processor's memory controller is connected to the RAM slots via its pins as well and bent pins could mean that some or all of your memory slots wouldn't work.
My friend and I were in a similar situation, although we had the pins of the CPU itself bent quite badly. Using more ore less the same procedure (with a little help of a credit card), we managed to save an Intel i7. The sigh of relief was endless.
I bought a pair of magnified glasses for this a couple years ago. They worked really well. I also used some tiny tweezers. Some of the pins were bent downward so the tweezers were perfect. My i5 760 has been rock solid at 4ghz since! I wish I could of had this video for reference back then. Nice video!
Great job I fixed mine with a blade ,good light and steady hand :) .Working flawless ever since .
Thank you for this video. I payed the 10 dollars (about 9 euros) for a motherboard and fix the pins. I tested it and worked great!
Where is the video on how to build the light?
TY this helped me alot for fixing my motherboard aswell, it arrived with a bent pin, so i am happy you made this video
Not had to face this so far, but brilliant video. Thanks for the advice and boost to confidence.
I used two small knives to bend some pins back in place once. I squeezed the pins inbetween the two blades. Worked like a charm. The knives made it easy since they can get between all the other pins and they help stabilize.
love that enthusiasm :D
My cat chewed through my turtle beach headphones cable, and I currently don't have speakers hooked up, so it was quite interesting watching this video with Closed Captions on.
Thanks for the tutorial!
Just solder the cables back together. Problem solved.
Where are the ads? Such a good work... and not commercialized? Nice.
Bro u just saved my life...man he is the one..❤️❤️
I've used a mechanical pencil to repair a 1150 board before, worked a treat. You got lucky as the pins you had bent weren't too bad. Good job with it though! :)
Mate! You are a legend you just saved my £1k build - last time I get over excited completed my build! Lol
Just really like your video's. Keep up the good work:)
where is the link for the 100w light panel???
Going to try this with my motherboard. Thanks for the tips.
dude thanks so much, I accidentally bent a pin cause i was being too rough with the socket and after watching this i was able to get it almost perfect so thanks! hopefully it posts lol
oh my god I just realized this is the guy that makes cool stuff now
Thanks bro, this was a real help
Great how to, bent some pins on my Z87 Stinger a while back, and although I knew what needed to be done, its nice to have a GOOD video of how to.
In meantime I ended up buying a Refurbished Asus Z87 Gryphon to replace it (case is a Micro ATX Tt Core V21, so had the space), to use my i5 4690K in, though luckily I bought a cheap Celeron G1840 to test with and for Bios Updating in case the Haswell/DC's weren't supported with an older bios in either of the boards, luckily they already were updated, will probably end up using the "Celery" (as some of us used to call them back in the day) in that Stinger board if I can get the pins bent back into place. Damaged them installing the plastic protector for the socket, installed wrong way, pushed the bracket/frame down, and wasn't until after I realized what I did. Void warranty for a moment of stupidity, all that was wrong with it before this, was a defective DIMM slot, so I was going to RMA it, not anymore, LOL
I was able to straighten pins on a CRT monitor cable a few years ago, using needle nose pliers, and also had success!
Nice little video, another great tip is a 0.05mm mechanical pencil you just slot it over the bent pin and straighten as necessary.
Congratulations!! I have also done this before on an X99 Asus PRO it was about 7 pins and I fixed I just like you.. I bought of from ebay for 45USD. and now this mobo is mounted and is being used as my Primary gaming RIG!! :D
I accidently bent a few pins one my "backup" motherboard and I used some really small needles to bend them back, and it worked really great for me, I'd would suggest using needles if you doesn't have any small screwdrivers ;)
Yea !!!! So happy 2 !! it happens to me 2 ! As always like this and all your vids ! Genio kid !! Cheers man !!!
this video gives me some hope :) thanks
thanks for the video i have the same problem but how did you get the thermal paste off ??
Just want to say thank you for saving me £175!!
I know this is random but do you know where i could find a Christmas decoration this behind you in the vidio
DIY Perks Forgot the link for the LED Panel video. I would really like to see it and I looked around your channel but I couldn't find it.
Congrats on fixing it
Thank you so much, when i took out my new motherboard I think I accidentally bent a pin on the back so thank you so much for showing that I might be able to if it
Excellent videos!! I just wanted to know where is the LED lamp video??
Thanks for the video. I used your video to fix my lga1151 bent pins. And I totally relate to your reaction hahha
Good job as always, thanks a lot for sharing
Found using a Mechanical Lead Pencil works great as it is almost the same diameter as the pin like a 5mm or 7mm or even a 9mm lead pencil. Especially on AMD pins as they are more 'round' or 'cylindrical' in shape. Also a credit card or something similar is good for aligning a row too.
Can you give me a link of mechanical lead pencil
@@jouunoo9365 better yet I can send you one have many many from my years land surveying and doing drafting work
have a friend that uses those little red tubes that come on WD-40 cans same principle but the pencil to me is more precise
Good job! Now I know I can do that! I wish I watched this video one year ago because I found a computer with bent pins and threw it away! :-(
man that sucks :-(
TheSupercat91/Justop2013 Yea I know!
I did the same thing :((
I just got a sabertooth z77 arrive from the US to here in London today the seller forgot to tell me 3-4 pins were bent it boots fine with one stick of memory but no more than that so i guess these pins are important ! Thanks for the video i'm gonna try fix them with my shaky hands and crap eyesight wish me luck :)
Hello, I can't find the link nor the video that you refer to about making a LED-panel. I'm interested in making one myself, so if you could post the link, I'd appreciate it! Thanks!
Why are you not using an ANTI-STATIC Wrist band for these electronic components? As they are very sensitive.
Any way thanks for sharing. Very useful one.
I've done this in the past and it worked as well. : )
You could have looked up on the CPU or socket spec what those pins are.
If they're not high speed signals especially if they're power or ground signals then you should be fine with just bending them back in place.
On the other hand if they're high speed signals like DDR, you may need to run them at slower apeed (reduced DDR frequency for instance) because the line characteristics changes when you bendback the socket contact pins (changes in capacitance and/or inductance will degrade signal quality compared to other interface signals on other (unbent) pins). But you may also be lucky and bend them back nicely :)
In any case well done.
Many thanks. you just saved me alot of money. thank you!!!
Nice little guide. Im in the mids of trying to fix a socket on my Assus z170 Pro gaming myself and im not sure its working, cause not all of my ram slots seem to work. I check forums and stuff for similar problems and they tell me it might be bent pins...which would be logical. I rly dont want to buy a new motherboard, so will give it another go soon. Is ram slots not working a indicator of crooked pins? Does that mean that the pins that are crooked are directly linked somehow to the cpu way of handling the sockets or what?
DIY Perks I bought a msi az87-g45, after it was shipped i noticed it had one bend socket pin. if I can fix it, can I remove the "test" cpu, and replace it if I want to Uppgrade, or its going to bend again after replacing with another cpu!? Please Help!
i just bought a new mobo.When i remove the plastic cover from the socket i accidentally bent 2 pins.I couldnt fix them and i think they werent messed up badly so i fit the cpu in the socket and powered up my pc.Pc was booting from ssd after messing with the bios settings.Did i do the right thing?I was afraid of breaking anything so i decided to leave it like that.
On my mobo, everything looks fine and not damage, but there is this one pin on the front panel connectors that is slightly bent to the left. If I was to bend It slightly towards the right to straighten it out a bit, would this action damage the unit?
THAAAAANKS you saved my Motherboard !
Great Work Man!
the same technique be applied to fixing a pin from the MOTHERBOARDS 8-PIN Power Conector (The board , NOT the Power Supply) ?
I was testing other Power Supplies cause the one i have gives the scent of BURN when i try loading some games, and i ended up banking a pin at the MOBO's Atx 8-pin connector !
If the MOBO's lost, can a LGA 1150 Processor F I T into a 1151 or LGA 2011 Socket ? Just wanna know how screwed i am !!
Whats the name of that Screwdiver KIT Again ?! Please help !!
You were so happy with fixing a 50 euro motherboard. Imagine how i felt after fixing my ROG VIII hero which i didn't even get to use yet :P
Needle tip tweezers work REALLY well for this.
I have a set of mechanical pencils of different lead diameters that I keep empty. When faced with bent pens I choose the pencil with the closest match to the pin size. then slide the lead barrel down over the bent pen then bend it back in place slowly.
A friend just built up a new pc,and it's booting for 3 seconds then shuts off,an then it gets in a restart loop.He has about 4 pins bent on the motherboard.Could that be the cause of the loop ? He tried only connecting the cpu and the motherboard to the PSU and he had the same result,so there couldn't be the ram or any other component besides the cpu or the motherboard.
hi, just saw your video and thought i'd ask you. i have managed to completely destroy a connector socket on a HP pavilion motherboard (i was trying to repair the pins and failed miserably) it's a tiny 1 inch long plastic socket with 10 pins into which the cable from the screen plugs in, must have a real tech name i'm sure, on the MB they call it LCD 400mm.. would you say it is feasible to get it fixed, considering costs? i cannot find and videos or help or advise anywhere on the net, hoping you or anyone here would have experience on such a thing. thanks, great video.
Bought a mobo for 5 bucks, bent back ~100+ pins and now it works! Woohoooo!
+Imran A. Mughal LGA1151 if anyone cares..
100+ Pins? Nice work man! :)
What Mobo was it?
asus maximus viii
some tips:
take a small flat head eyeglasses screwdriver and "sharpen" it on sandpaper (do not make a point but rather a sharp flat head
use a led headlamp (can be bought from china for $3) in addition to excellent light in the room (just do it at 11am on a Saturday)
use a sewing needle in addition to the flat head mentioned earlier (this, surprisingly, is *not* as useful as the screw driver
take multiple breaks (do only a small portion of pins in one sitting)
give your eyes time to relax
do it throughout a full day, do not rush
THANKS!! I'm going to make a tool for the job! prep is key for this job!! @@im19922000
@@hardergamer Any update?
I have done this before on the old 775 Intel Motherboards so I personally know it can be done and does work as long as he states "Take your time putting them back"
how do u fix sata external port on motherboard ? mine was giving errors and not booting windows 10 . I switched ports and fixed issue. just want to fix sata 1 port
God job!! sir, I did it once the same way you did and results just fine I feel just lucky, And I learned my lesson
I have 1 pin slightly bent out of shape. Im using the computer now and its fine, should I be concerned about anything in the future?
JBL Soundsticks 3..the right speaker connector has pins that are broken/bent out of shape. Help.
Kanwar Anand try to use the top of a mechanical pencil with the lead taken out
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Got it fixed but its very temperamental :(
My friend gave me a brand new Sabertooth Z87 that he had dropped the CPU onto. 5 minutes and a needle made it good as new, especially since he had never actually... used it. So now that's what I have in my computer, along with the 4670k and 16GB of 2400MHz RAM, both overclocked.
Nice outcome! Don't tell your friend though, haha.
DIY Perks
Actually he was sitting with me when I got it working, though he still didn't charge me, as he was able to RMA it, and get another for free. For some reason, they also sent back the original one. Gotta love that 5 year warranty Asus puts on the TUF series boards. Still has all the great overclocking features of the ROG series boards also, so I was able to overclock to 4.6GHz stable on the 4670k!
World Known hahahha nice :D
Man that is shit get destroyed by my 1080 ti
Fun story - My friend upgraded his computer to an LGA 1151-based CPU from 1150 which meant he upgraded the RAM, Motherboard, and CPU. A few weeks ago I lent him a PSU and he couldn't find it so he had me come over and we both looked for it. He went through all of his old things and just gave them to me since he'll never use those parts again. Now, I have much more than the stuff he gave me, which was 4 sets of 8GB DDR3 RAM, an i5-4670k, and an MSI H81M-E33 motherboard.
keep up the great work
thanks bro. this may come in handy...
mine bent 8 pins ...will it easy to repair again
But what if I powered the system up with bend pins. My pc did not boot, just the fans starting. And know I sm wondering if the cpu is damaged...
I found the best tool was a fresh X-acto blade. I used just the very tip of it. Worked quite well :)
Please Help! I have 775 socket and I bend 2 pins and cut one. My pc opens but I I have a low frame rate in games. I just bought RX480 and I cannot get over 30 fraps to crisis 3. My specs are. P5k premium. 8gb Ram Drr2 800, q9550 2,83 Ghz rx 480 sapphire. Thanks in advance. Does it effects performance?
Too bad that many sellers only show unfocused low detail pics of the socket so I can't really know how badly damaged the pins are. And what if I don't notice that there is 1 more bent pin or whole thing goes FUBAR otherwise? CPU fried?
lol i have the middke monitor i think and when its in standby and the blinking led is on it does some sound like coilwhine
what samsung monitor is that? I mean what exact model?
omg i felt like was alike mi motherboard man nice video i felt relieved too xD!!!
I have a motherboard with bent pins that I would like to try and repair. I understand that even if I manage to boot the PC I might run into some problems later if one of the pins are not correctly bent back in place. Is there any way I can test the CPU fully to check and see if it is working completely?
Try Prime95, Super Pi
great video !!!
I bent quite a few pins straightened most of them and somehow it still works 😃
Does anyone know a good website where I can download more ram?
+MikeAvenger08 downloadmoreram.com :D
+iMiniBiscuits im having trouble, i need ddr2 and they only have ddr3 :( i cant even download ram off the internet what a sad day
+MikeAvenger08 YOU CANT DOWNLOAD MORE RAM RAM IS A IRL THING
(unless you have a 3d printer)
+wojtek lasik don't feed the troll
You're joking, right?
I fixed my mobo from bent socket pins i had like 4 pins and the computer would work but only w 4GB of ram when i had 12GB installed. Now it's working but will it come back to the same in time? i've read that heat can make them bent again in time.
Once you've bent them back they aren't going to magically rebend themselves. Don't worry about it.
When it comes on... is American Megatrends POST displaying that no OS is detected. Or a CPU issue?
Ewan Whiteside There was no HDD connected, so no OS to boot. I've since installed a OS and it's been working really well.
5:25 ...last time i was happy like that was when my father fixed an old C64 i had stolen from the neighbours bulk waste back in 1986 :D
You have a perfect accent an British look. What i mean is anyone would either hear or see you would know that you're British :P
Old video but nevertheless great to see your success. Just about to try this on about ten pins. Yikes!!!