Repairing CPU pin?

[dave87]

How about claiming on your household insurance - for £730 it may be worth it after the excess...

[xrob]

Agent: as i've said before yes i have tested it and it did not boot.

i'm really not bothered about the money, i just want it working.

i might go hunt down a 2nd hand mobo and bung in some cheap ram and see if putting some wire/pin heads in the socket will work.

anyone got anything going if so pm me or post in the FS thread.

cheers for all the suggestions guys.

[xrob]

just been reading the AMD forums and they all seem to suggest the jewelers to fix it. i blame the xp120 mounting and making it so damn awkward to evenly let pressure off the proccesor for safe removal and artic silver for being so good.

[R0xy0urs0x]

let us know how it goes m8, be interesting to see this, can you take pics on before and after?

[xrob]

will do buddy, will pop into town after work and see if the jewelers is still open, if not i will have to wait untill the weekend. besides i need to source some hardware aswell before i can test it.

i'll wak up some photos of it tonight tho.

[Max Tractor]

the xp120 mounting and making it so damn awkward .

Goodness knows how many hsf I have fitted, but the sheer pain in the butt fitting that is a xp120 has to be the worst I have come across, doing it while the board is in the case is even more of a mare, but the excellent cooling it offers makes up for it

[xrob]

yeh XP120 were good in their day, scythe lead the way now.

anyway heres some pics.


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its been lapped since that scan

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and finally you can see the snapped pin here

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[dave87]

if you've lapped it then you are unlikely to have much luck with AMD (if you were thinking of going down that route)

[xrob]

good point, forgot about that. i checked the AMD forums and they all said that jewelers should be able to do so if they are suggesting that on the AMD forum i dout they would do anything about it.

[8bit]

i'm really not bothered about the money, i just want it working.

I realise that possibly covers the claiming on house insurance thing but that is what accidental damage cover is for, and it was accidental damage that broke the pin. Since the current CPU is useless, claiming the cost (minus the excess) would mean you could buy a new chip. From then onwards you'd be free to mess about with the current one to try and get it working to your heart's content, safe in the knowledge you have a new FX-60 (or a used FX-57 off ebay or similar) as your main unit.

That's what I'd do, anyways... Best of luck with whatever you try.

[prehensile]

can't you get conductive resin? Get a copper wire,use some tweezers to hold it against the broken pin, and then glue it in place while it is in decent contact with a good resin, even better if it is conductive.

If you phone some jewellers, get a quote on it.that will get the ball rolling.

[Richie P]

I had a 939 venice 3500+ that I notice was missing a pin 6 months after i bought it.

Emailed AMD, and with a bit of fuss (with their online returns system, not the rma auth) then had the cpu back off me, and replaced it. Took about a month in all which i was not happy about, and in the end they sent me a 3800+ manchester. Shame because I bought a venice for it's power and heat savings and SSE3 instruction set.

Overall, full marks to AMD for accepting the return, but 2/10 for their service.

[oralpain]

Very few soldering irons will melt gold, nor is gold a good choice to do such a repair.

All you need is a piece of copper wire (of proper thcikness and length) and a small dab of solder (plus somthign to heat and hold it with), pin fixed.

I would be amazed if AMD helped you with it.