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yeah you read that title correctly so I had my MSI create motherboard sitting on the floor no excuse for that and I also had the CPU socket exposed with no cover on I don't recommend doing that either again no excuse I just I got it from my chair my my ankle swept right across the socket and bent several pins go ahead and show you the state of affairs now so that is the MSI board and go ahead and yeah split right there so you can see it just hurts to look at that hole right corner up there is just destroyed so I'm going to try to take an old car maybe like it's an ID card or something and see if I can bend those pins back obviously this board is not going to work as is I'm not going to try to put an X on a nine chip in here and see if it'll work it's just not they're not going to make proper contact those pins aren't with the with the chip so I'm going to try to bend them back as best I can make them look like the rest of these pins here and then I'll put my ten korzy on in here the Broadwell II five twenty six thirty v4 I want to see that's the chip put that CPU in here and we're going to see if it works after we attempt to rebuild the spins into the correct orientation so yeah let's give it a go let's see I'm trying to see how far I can zoom in here without the camera going out of focus but uh yeah so that section and see if we get a better top-down view of it all right so what it looks like is those pins are bent upward yep they're definitely bent upward that's my ankle went across this way so it's swept it that way and the pins were kind of oriented like this at first and then they got pushed up so we're going to have to bend those back down it shouldn't actually be that hard so I'm going to take a card and I'm just going to go that like that like that however many times I need to to get those pins back in line like it's very easy to see what pins are not where they should be but it's not very easy to bend them back exactly where they need to be so I've actually got this old Motorola SIM card a little ejector thing I'm actually going to use this because this pin is about the same size as each of the pins in the socket so let's see if this works any better from certain angles it's very easy to see which ones are not where they should be you kind of have to look at this as just like one big piece now because if you try to look at individual pins you'll just throw yourself off just look at it as one unit and then just kind of get that mental picture in your mind and you'll be able to pick out the pins that shouldn't be where they are and if you have a decent light you know I have a lamp here and you get the the angle of that light approaching the socket just right it'll definitely help with your ability to discern those bad pins and one thing you definitely definitely don't want to do is you know pull or pluck a pin to the point where it either snaps and breaks off or just get bent so far into the socket that you can't recover it because then at that point you might as well just trash your motherboard it's just trying to solder a single pin into something like this is gonna be a nightmare there's a slightly on reflection coming from here don't know which pin that is though shouldn't be there sorry I know the camera work is just kind of shoddy right now it's very difficult to film something this meticulous but I do want to show you the process and I think it's just good knowledge in general if I run into anything unexpected I can say that I captured it on camera or at least walk you through it as I suffer here okay so it looks kind of decent from this angle from where you guys are looking at it right now so I'm going to swing the camera over to this side so you can look at it from another angle over here and you'll see what I'm seeing there's just a you know there's still a big chunk of the socket that isn't where it should be there you go so yeah you can see there's still quite a few pins that are out of place so let's see if I can give you guys that camera angle now and do bear in mind the orientation of the hands that will definitely help as well in this case here just because most of them were brushed backwards all I have to do is just press them down again and they typically kind of just set back into their original positions so it's not as bad as it seems okay almost almost there we're almost there okay so at this point looks are deceiving it looks to be pretty good there's a few few issues kind of up there but it looks much better than it did however I'd be willing to bet my lunch money the CPU still wouldn't work remember these contact points on the chip itself are super small they're not much wider than the pin in the heads of these pins so we need to make sure these pins are almost exactly where they were before I yeah kind of brushed them with my ankle okay so now I have a really thin it's kind of an old SPE car this was my old society petroleum engineering card whatever that member number doesn't mean anything to me but I'm going to try to use that now to pull some of the pins that are pushed too far down back up just a tad I don't know if this is thin enough it's probably not but I don't have anything thinner that is sturdy enough that's stiff enough to to pull these pins back oops get in there almost there if this works I'm going to call myself a professional CPU socket specialist you know you're important when you have the words professional and specialist in your title another way of verifying where your pins are located just lower your head to where it's level with the socket level with the entire motherboard and you should be able to see very distinct straight lines going all the way through you can see here it's divided there's one half there and then there's the other half here so these pins on this side are bent one way and the pins on the back or bent another way now but you can look down each section and verify whether or not the pins are aligned perfectly you can still see how some of those up top there or not which tells me that not good enough yet okay I am calling it I've been working on this for about 45 minutes now and then no it looks pretty good to me what do you guys think before I test the CPU do you think it'll work the way it is we see I'll give you another another view the light on this side you can see how it does look a tad bit different there are very very tiny changes in positions overall but I still think given the slight change in about 10 or 20 of these pins that they'll still make proper contact with the leads on the on the CPU that's what I'm thinking but we'll find out right now okay I have the 5820k in here because the 6800 K which is a broad bowl II processor might not be compatible with the BIOS that's on this MSI create excellent Eli motherboard this motherboard was designed and manufactured before Broadway II was released so there's a chance that that BIOS might not support Broadwell natively so I have a 5820k in here to be safe I put the 10 cores II on in my personal rig chillin yeah right there so we're going to do now I don't have on hand just like a regular cheap cooler to stick on there what I do have that oh don't worry don't cringe too much that's right I'm just going to shove this cooler onto the 5820k and I mean it's it's only temporary we're going to just make sure it posts and that's it that's all I want to confirm here so it's nothing permanent it's going to be very temporary but I did this will at least keep the CPU from severely overheating within the first few seconds of booting so I'm going to pop this cooler off and I'm just going to stick it on there I'm not going to latch it or anything the thermal paste is relatively sticky and I'll just lay the computer down on its side and should be good to go okay so we're just going to push this firmly on the CPU like so okay TV is good to go I've plugged in the HDMI cable and the power cable and that's the USB hub I can't really tell it's pretty dark in this room but there's a USB little plug right there and that connects to a wireless keyboard mouse so we can control what we're seeing on TV although all we're looking to do here is verify that it posts so let's turn on and see what we see what yet I don't think I'd there we go now let's try it okay and and we're just waiting on a post now I hope maybe oh that's a good sign okay I have the keyboard here so we're going to run the setup press f1 there we go and CPU is an i7 5820k writes stock okay we only have 12 gigs of ram which means i didn't properly insert one of those dims well apart from that and that's no problem that's a two-second fix the CPU is detected that's a great sign that means that the pins were reset close enough to their original positions with a CPU can function normally so yeah I'm going to call that a wrap if you happen to do something as stupid as I did and step on your socket or you know just end up with a motherboard that has a few bent pins in the process before you return it I suggest because you're gonna have the box open anyway by that point you know just returning it with an open box is inevitable but at that point I would say if you think you're up for the task and you want to kind of do what I did bit earlier in the video you can attempt to reset those pins yourself and then see if the CPU is detected by the motherboard and you get a post you won't get a post if the CPU is not seated properly or if the few of those pins are misaligned so this is your way of verifying that and if you can verify that your CPU is detected that means you've done a great job at fixing your CPU socket so I'm gonna call it a wrap be sure to give this video a thumbs up you feel it's cool give it a thumbs down if you do feel the complete opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to click the subscribe button if you haven't already I promise folks this is my last screw up for a while hopefully I'm gonna knock on wood this is 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