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with the purchase of a qualifying Intel processor SSD or nook you could instantly win and Intel gaming Jersey and be entered in the draw for the ultimate system click now to learn more welcome to a bit of an impromptu late-night vlog I've got a core i7 for third something K whatever the point is it's an LGA 2011 chip here that is perfectly good but unfortunately isn't booting in this X 79 to lock a soos board and it's not the fault of the board somehow at some point I hope you guys can see it here right there there is a vent pin now the advantage to LGA chips is that the CPUs themselves are much less fragile than they used to be but back when pins are on the bottom of CPUs or on AMD CPUs where they still are it was a lot easier to repair them and you can even use little tricks like putting the stub of the pin or even another piece of metal into a socket and as long as it would make contact a lot of the time you could get your CPU working again well LGA 2011 repair is a lot trickier so we're going to give it a shot here let's see how much I can zoom in and show you guys that damaged block right in the middle of the frame there there's one pin that's either broken or bent it's hard for me to even tell so I've got my tools handy here first up is a standard pin or needle you're going to want one that's reasonably fine okay I got a pink one second is you're going to want some kind of a magnifying glass so you can actually see what you're doing and then third is you are going to want an excellent light source so in my case I'll be going an iPhone propped up between the PCI slot slots so here we go now the way these pins work is they're kind of like little Springs so here you can see that they actually have a flat portion we're going to see if I can even get in there goopy goopy goop they have kind of a flat portion here at the bottom and then they end in a little ball at the end now it looks like what's happened to our pin here after closer examination with the magnifying glass is the ball on the end has broken off but that doesn't mean that it's necessarily done for we may be able to bend the pan back into a position where the rest of it so not the pad at the end but the rest of it the stump of it can make contact with the pad on the bottom of the CPU so that's going to be our goal here so what we're going to do is we're going to use very delicately this pin being careful not to damage the ones around it mind you if we do it's a dead board already although I think a soos can do soccer repair for a fee but this is an engineering sample board so there's no warranty so we're just going to kind of go for the gusto here and we're going to try to bend that pin into such a position that it can make contact with its corresponding pad on the bottom of the CPU here so I think I got it by because the the pin has a couple of kinks in it so it kind of goes this way and then back and then up to the head so what I did was because we're missing the head now is I I bent it up and then I bent this one up a little bit so hopefully that stub of the pin is now in the same position where the head would have been so it can make contact now you can see it still looks a little funny but the only way to know for sure unfortunately is to fire up a CPU and find out if she posts now this isn't the kind of thing that I actually recommend doing because I have no way of guaranteeing that you wouldn't kill your CPU by doing it but hey there's Linus tech tips so we'd like to live dangerously all right so it's a moment of truth time I've gone ahead and built up a test bench here hopefully I wired it all up correctly let's just see what happens okay there we go so it is powering up but this was normal we expected that let's see if we get anything on the display no way ah got it look at that core i7 49 30k you CPU installed it worked we got it well there you go guys as as ghetto as the methodology may have been that is how I go about fixing pins on LGA sockets I've actually done it a number of times this one I had already worked on for about 15 minutes before I tried it tonight but that was when I had a much thicker pin and I also didn't really have a great light source I didn't have a magnifying glass so I was able to do a bit of a better job this time and we've got it up and running so that's fantastic salvaged a motherboard $300 motherboard sure beats sure beats buying any one so thanks for watching guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment and let me know what you'd like to see for future videos or whatever it is you want to leave comments about on videos on YouTube make your voice be heard and guys check out the links in the video description so there's a link to our sponsor there's a link for where you can support us so you can give us a monthly contribution you can buy a cool t-shirt not like the one I'm wearing I'm wearing some other random t-shirt normally I wear a t-shirt for these and you can 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