How Do You Fix Bent Pins On A CPU?
Ahh! 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? • 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. • Get your wallet and pull out your credit cards, giftcards, and ID’s. • 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. • Once you find a card o
• 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. • Get your wallet and pull out your credit cards, giftcards, and ID’s. • 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. • 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. • Some pins will be so bent that they touch other pi
