Motherboards HELP!!!! Fixing broken Pin in Socket of my Asus P6T Deluxe Motherboard X58 LGA1366

I have this half broken pin in the top of the cpu socket and not sure what to do with it. I bought this on ebay few months back so dont know if i got warrantee for it or if broken pin is covered by Asus?

Anyways, i would love to fix it back myself. Dose anyone have a same problem or had their mobo fixed before? Any help would be appreciated.

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(1 Broken pin is shown)

 

seriously not worth the hassle. it was difficult enough to repair a solid pin on a CPU, but a sprung pin intel style is boarder line impossible.

 

Is it me or does that pin look burned away rather than broken ??

 

nice macro shots btw. always a positive

 

This one also looks broken, how did you manage to breake 2 pins?

 

I think it's just the angle it was photographed at, the second pin doesn't look broken to me.

However, OP, The 1st broken pin could be fixable.
It appears as though the acutal "spring" part of the pin is still intact and that it's just the gold contact pin head that has broken off. If that is the case, somebody with a very steady hand and plenty of soldering experience could possibly manage to put that right. It's not impossible

As philheckler observed, there does seem to be a little bit of charring on the pin. Could just be a bit of oxidization tho.

Best off taking it to someone who has experience in repairing electronics, and ask the question. It's worth it, it's a great board, with quite a bit of second hand value in working order. Is it the V1 or V2?

 

Maybe you can go to a jeweler, a goldsmith can repair this pin. One of my friend, back in the day, did it and it worked well.

 

HI. this is the best board i had ever owned and this had never let me down. I could overclock my 920 D0 to 4.4Ghz stable on this. I've paid over £240 for it and now a faulty goes for £60 to £70 on ebay. I think i might have chance fixing it. i've seen people fixing more crazy stuffs.

Don't know what it is. I was changeing the 920 D0 chip to a xeon w3540 but i had to go post office so I asked my brother to look at it untill i get back from post office and next moment i find out this is broken.. arhhhhhh

You know what mate, you are right it does look bent.. but I think this is ok. .I've tried puting my pc together. Everything works fine, except shutdown. System do not start if you switch off, then you need to remove the BIOS battery for few mins, then system will boot.

I did tested with my xeon W3540 processors, ALL THE COMPONENTS ARE WORKING GREAT excep shutdown issue.

You are right. I'll have to look for someone in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
I'll try go to the local shops nearby see if anyone would want to try for me

 

It looks like it has been snagged, the gold tip has been broken off and the lower section is at a different angle to the rest, so as long as it was physically broken and not an electrical fault with the motherboard or something that caused it to look a bit burnt like that then I think it could be fixable.

All you need is the contact to be re-established, my only worry is that if its done wrong, then you might take out your cpu as well.

 

You are right too but i dont know anyone who works in a jeweler shop. If i really go in there i'll have to end up buying stuffs for my wife.. lol..
you know how asia's love GOLD..lol

 

A mobile phone repair shop is a good place to try.
Those guys have plenty of experience in PCB soldering with very, very small components.

 

I would say a jeweller's would be the best place to look, then a mobile shop after that tbh. A jeweller's has exactly the right experience with this kind of thing, in fact as long as you have a steady hand you could do it yourself.

You might be able to get a new pin for the gold contact head that's missing from eBay or something - someone will have a dead mobo.

 

You might check the ballout for the CPU and see what that pin actually connects to. It might be a ground pin, reserved pin, or be used in the second QPI link on a server/workstation board.
If that's the case, then it probably isn't something to worry about.

If it were just bent, I know guys who fixed that problem with tweezers and a steady hand. But it looks like the contact portion of the pin is gone, so I'm not sure what can be done if that was an important pin.

 

Yeah - i don't really see any repair options here myself , as the above said you might get lucky and it may be a gnd or some 'unused' pin , if its a data or address pin though the mobo would be dead , fact that it boots probably says it's not a critical pin , still think the pin looks burnt though , as someone who's spent his whole carreer in electronics (I test chips for a livinG BTW) it really does look like its overheated badly , does the pad on the chip show any sign of scorching ?

 

thanks mate. will try my best with it.

 

My friend Andy is coming down tonight, he works in a satellite repair shop.
I think he'll be fine.. i see him soldering like small chips on the stb's all the time. =)

 

I bought a faulty listed p6t deluxe mother board from ebay yesterday for £50 and its here now.
You know what i found out after opening it?
MORE THEN 70% OF THE PINS ARE ALL BROKEN OR BENT ON THE BOARD. OMG MAN.. I WAS LIKE WTFFFFFF.. WHO WOULD DO THAT TO THEIR BOARD. I'LL TRY TAKE A PIC AND SHOW LATER ON TONIGHT.

 

The board works fine. just having shut down issus.. i think that pin was a grounding pin.
is there anyway fixing the shut down issus without touching the pins?

 

Mate .. Thanks for taking time out to write here.. .I've tried puting my pc together. Everything works fine, except shutdown. System do not start if you switch off, then you need to remove the BIOS battery for few mins, then system will boot.
Do you think i can fix this without touching the pin.. because i'm worrie. my friend said he'll put a bit of solder on the top of the pin.. but i'm scared if the cpu gets hot the solder will melt.. will this work.. or any other idea?

 

I want to see that !