I know this is an old video, but after watching this I was inspired to try and straighten the bent pins on my son's motherboard. I didn't have the very fine tweezers that you used, instead I used a sewing pin and a lot of patience! Eventually I got the pins aligned almost perfect and now the PC lives again! Many thanks for the video!

you sir have a very steady hand

I just did this to TWO goddamn motherboards the other day. Armed with a magnifying glass, a portable light and a tiny pair of tweezers. Got both the sockets working and booting up just fine.

I cannot believe i actually did it! I had one "dead" ram slot. The reason, one damn bent pin. I am now typing with dual memory channel! yohoooo! thanks for the video!

1:05 that V8 :)

Great video! I went from dreading that my pins may be bent to hoping that actually IS the problem because you have given me confidence that I can fix it. You earned a subscriber with this one.

Get some fine tip tweezers and use your cell phone camera on high zoom.. i just fixed 5 pins on my Z97 board in about 10 minutes and my issues are now gone...

I fixed around 20 pins in 3 hours with very small flat screwdriver and needles, and my motherboard worked flawlessly. Seems like we can use ifixit ultra fine tip tweezers.

So many thanks!!! One DIMM channel was missing. Thanks to your video I've looked into socket and that's it. Now fixed and everything works.

I just repaired a gigabyte UD3R-SLI, pins were bent pretty bad, took me a few tries, because I just used my plain sight and a minuscule flat driver. But practice makes perfection lol now the mobo works great.

Thanks for the tips, this fixed my problem where two of my RAM slots weren't being recognized. After struggling to figure out what might have gone wrong, I found some bent pins and used this as a guide.

Was it just me, or did anyone else feel the need for some blade runner sound effects while we were scanning around that socket? PS, straightening bent pins fixed my memory problems also. Thank you socket 1366.

GOD bless this man! I Straightened my PINS using a needle. Love you bro you saved my money ❤.

I just fixed 3 bent pins and booted up just fine! 🥳 all it takes is a bit of patience, a toothpick and a steady hand

fixed mines with a damn toothpick 😂

@1:38 bottom row, coming from the right. 3rd pin was also bent.

insider tip: Using tweezers is NOT recommended if you're new to this. You'll snap those pins if you're shaky. Instead use a good quality wooden toothpick. It gives you good enough grip to move that pin where it needs to. Thank me later.

I use a graphite mechanical pencil because it gives much more control over the bend pin. Also the risk of over-bending and breaking of the pin is reduced that way.

I decided to swap two LGA1156 core i3 cpu's from two pc's built summer 2010 because the video driver crashing when video editing or sometimes while watching an mp4 video. I first discovered the heat sink / fan combo was loose one of the plastic locking pins was no in correctly. When removing the CPU I hear the dreaded pin scraping noise and panicked then I watched your video and realized there could be life after death and prayed. I used an LED light, 10X magnifying glass and a sewing needle to straighten around 10+ pins. System is back up and running. Thanks!!!

Thanks a lot for this. I had a bent pin that was causing troubles (bsod, only 1 slot of ram working, etc.) I used a syringe needle and a magnifier. Everything it's working fine now 😅

Worked for me, was just getting a quote for a new motherboard and wondered if there was an easy fix. I did mine with a SIM ejector and with the camera zoom it looked like someone's finger trying to smash the pins back into place 😂

This is a game changer right here. I remember the days of throwing out cpu's or motherboards or returning them to Fry's due to bent pins.

Another reason I often opt for AMD in builds. Easier to fix/replace a CPU versus an entire MOBO. Great video!

I genuinely thought all the bent over pins were smashed down 😂 so thanks for indirectly giving me the ansore for that !

thank you so much ! i had a faulty ram slot that i couldnt use, but now i can !

Great Video, great resolution and you are working with steady hands, like a pro, well done. Thank you for sharing it. And thank you for the tools you mentioned in the video.

did i see another bent pin in last few secinds of your video on the left?

Thanks a lot for this solution. It saved my ram slot which I thought was dead, but it's working again flawlessly now after I tried this method. Again sir, I thank you from the deepest bottom of my heart.

what kind of tweezers u are using

come across this bent pins problem in many of my builds so far done over 300 pc build's and only 3 of them had this problem,i did manage to fix all the issues with the bent pins but always came across this problem when gpuz picks up the graphics card running at 8x insted of 16x,when i bent the pin or pins back to normall it will show the card running at 16x which is the right speed. also had the daul channel problem same as hgl 2020 it seems the ram was in single channel mode

Excellent demo, I thought it was a micro-surgery :)

beautiful job. I found a asks rog strix z370-h mobo and it has bent pins and I thought it would need a new socket soldered on but hopefully this will fix it.

Helped me get to post, then windows login screen. Was glad I didn't have a 1500 dollar paperweight lol. Thanks for this.

Old video but still useful. Thanks for posting!

I wish I had a setup like yours. I got an X58 motherboard for free because the socket was "ruined". I tried my best with the naked eye. Two pins ended up shorting, but it was just a vcore pin that melted away. I removed that pin. Unfortunately, it looks like a DDR2 RAS pin perhaps got shorted away as well. It is still in the socket and aligned well but looks darker than the others. The system posts, boots into windows, passes stress testing, but the DDR2 channel is dead. At least I still have two channels. Because of that shorted vcore pin, my W3520 test CPU (paid $9) has a contact pad melted right off. There was no damage on the CPU contact pad for the DDR2 channel though. This is the first time I seriously tried fixing a motherboard with bent pins. Had nothing to lose and it still "works" - I just don't have a ton of confidence in it. I feel like I could have avoided this with a proper setup.

This is amazing! - What exactly did you use for the magnification? - I got a magnifying glass but it's not good enough so I'd love to know what you've used, thanks

hi great how r u focusing /whats ur set up if u dont mind me asking as would like to copy to help me see bent pins getting quite a few from recyclers) btw live in Kent UK best, Tony

thank you very much for lovely images to understand what to move... getting a table top magnifier lense and will attempt it on lga1150 board I have,.

if your still monitoring this, would be very interested in the tools used, I would greatly appreciate it.

I did that too it works, anyone who want to fix it, Magnifying Glass is a must.

Did a good job on those pins, and really quick.

Nice job, 1:38 I noticed one more bent pin (bottom right) but since motherboard worked, I guess it was in working tolerance. My thinnest tweezers head is a lot bigger than what you are using. I guess need to buy different tools to try and recover my $450 M/B, I have 2 bent pins in different location. There was dust and tiny hairs in my socket too and I'm wondering how those get there, I vacuumed around the CPU before removing it, I cleaned it with Circuit cleaner spray though and it seems fine.

I thought I had bent all my pins when I uninstalled my cpu from my motherboard now I know they’re supposed to be side ways like that not straight up

Do You fix these? I have 2 boards with issues. I do not have a microscope or the eyes to do this with.

no matter why my core 2 quad Windows XP retro machine wasn't posting, 1 pin on that used board (ASUS P5Q Pro) that i got from ebay was bent. i carefully unbent the bent pin, reseated the core 2 quad, then reapplied some thermal paste, then put the heatsink back on the CPU, then tested it, and it finally posted, I was going to get a refund for a dead board but this video helped me.

Can we replace the socket itself if there is more damage?

What kind of magnification is used for this? It doesnt look like you can use a regular reading magnifying glass.

what did u do to magnify up close?

I built a new pc yesterday and 1 pin got bent which stopped RAM slots B1 & B2 working. I moved it a little then it all worked. I was nervous doing it.

what camera did you use to get this macro video? and what tweezers?

what are you using to see this

Have a Z97-A motherboard that the LAN quit working on. ASUS said it had bent pins and is sending it back to be unrepaired and the warranty voided (I'm not spending $140 for them to do it). Hopefully I can fix it just like that guy's problem.

This type of cpu design is a disaster...which bonehead approved his design...lga1155 pins r prone to bend... Earlier in pentium 3 or 4 series processors with golden pins which fits into small holes were perfect...this design is full of errors... Intel go eat some grass ...ur bone head ennovations r creating hell of issues...

For the "crap" , why not blow out with air?

The pins all seem to be alligned well in a grid, but all of them seem to be "bent" (pointing 4'o clock), not "upright" (pointing towards the sky or 12'o clock). Is that so ? Is that how it is supposed to be, or just an optical illusion ?

Good video,thanks. Can you tell mw what enlargement device you are using. I have only a cheap pair of chinese zoom lens thungamybob which are carp. I have an MSI B460-M-VDHmobo which my cat jumped on because she doesn'tt likr M|SI or China and her paw landed smack on the middle of the cpu socket and voila, a few bent pin thingamebobbies. I bought a decent jewellers lope. which is good but you have to put your nose onto a bunch of capacitors. {I'm gutted 'cause my daughter bought mr the mpbo,,the chip and fan. 16gigglebits of DDR4 ram` etc. Iried to boot but got no poxt. So, this the reason for my questiom. Greetings from England by the way. )

Hello. I want to use my old lga 1155 pc, but when I want to power on it tunrs of after 2 sec and tunrs on after another 2-5 seconds, and reapeats this things. This problem can happen if one or 2 pins is bent?

Can bent pins damage CPU? I am worried about use my I5 6500 on repaired pins on 1151 socket

So I've accidentally ripped off a pin from the socket and replaced it with another one from another socket from a motherboard I'm not using and I'm wondering if there's any risk coming with it.. The pin I broke I believe had something to do with the turbo frequencies as it wouldn't let me go past the stock speed (in turbo I mean) but it would let me decrease the stock speed. Everytime I would've tried to OC my cpu to a higher freq, it would restart and then restart once more then telling me that the overclock failed. So I added a new pin (just sticked it in there and mounted the cpu) and now the turbo is working again (the pin makes contact with the original pin and the spot on the CPU), but I wonder if it's going to last me or not..

I used my samsung s6 mobilphone -works great.

I just bent back 3 pins on a aorus z490 motherboard, everything seems to be working fine, cpu passed diagnostic, is there anything that I can do to make absolutely sure that everything is working properly?

I am looking for someone to help me with same issue. What did you use to unbend the pins?

Where did you get the tweezers ? I use 2 needles - tweezers w that small jawed tip ...

Saw one tutorial where you can use a mechanical pencil to straighten out a vertical pin.

What camera is this? Seems pins are big enough to be handled with forceps. I have issue with LGA 1151 and the pins seem to tiny.

Lost 1 pin - Ball # A18 with signal DDID_TXDP3 on my 1150 mobo, turns out it's connected to my PCI-E x16@x16 slot, so RIP gpu in that slot. I'm now using the middle PCI-E x16@x8 with no other problems.

Hi I have a big question. Does anyone know what pin with the description SB-MA4 on lga 1150 ? I ha e 2 snapped pins one is for ram slot which I can life with but I don't know how this sbma4 is gonna affect the use any help would be great

:/ I knew it was something I could fix with a damn pair of pliers!!!

Allright , I got it fixed. Thanks a lot master.

how do you magnify that so well.

Amazing camera for 2016

May I ask what are you using to do the magnification and to straighten the pins?

Can I hv a link to the magnifying glass u used? 🙏

Out of interest what microscope did you use? magnification wise and precision tweezers?

it took me ages to realize my mouse wasnt dead and it wasnt my cursor in the middle of the screen lmao

Hello , How did you focus in that good ? Is that a cell phone camera that you used ?

Which tool did you use?

On mine it seems to be back in place but I dunno from a far distance it looks still off :(

Please answer me as well as straighten the pins, you have ever done or thought to pay off the pin directly on the processor? That is, is missing a pin from my socket, then I pulled a pin from another socket, and will try to weld the pin directly into the processor itself in the contact that corresponds will that work? I will try to work out will record a video.

I legit bent the pin back and it works bro, thank fucking god

what camera you used that can zoom in that close?

Bro my pc sometimes working sometimes not ...When it didn't work i just hit the CPU ... I just pull over a little bit then leave ...With these kind of behavior does processor pin bent

I have bent pins were CPU goes on my hp elite desk 800 g1 intel I7 4770 it wont work anymore seens they got pins bent seens add faster CPU

Any follow up on this, whether or not the processor and fixed socket worked?

how does bend pins happen, when you have a CPU on the socket all the time ?

What tools did u use to straighten those pins? And what did u use to magnify ? Thx much

What are you using to zoom in as far as your are, as well as what kind of needle nose pliers are you using?

what type of magnifying glass did you use and tweezers?

What a cliffhanger, did it work after that?!?

What kind of microscope did you use?

You missed one, there...260th from the left 483th from the bottom, that's the one, you got it

My pins on my cpu socket are bent too I need to fix it

what kind of tools did you use ?

Sir what cam or microscope you used can you tell us the equipment name?

If one of this pins broken what should i do

Perfect 👌.

Looks like it's time they implemented replaceable sockets.

Bit easy fix for my friend but only 1 pin snapped can't fix it too small for soldier

I don't get it. It is 2019. We can put a man on the moon, we have created superfast Internet with fibre technology, we have cars on batteries, trains running at 500 km/h, advanced laser technology in our hospitals, but we can't manufacture a CPU and a CPU socket without extremely fragile and damageable pins ??? I simply don't get it! The engineers at Intel *and* AMD should be ashamed of themselves.

I was getting this error after i change the cooler of my processor for a new one. The following channel memory did not pass CPU memory test. Please remove the memory then plug again. Channel A So after hours of searching i found this video and decide to see if this was my case and sure it was. one ping was chilling to the other way. Now its all working.