How come my cpu still works?!?

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  1. .DG.

    .DG. What's a Dremel?

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    Hello all,

    BTW i'm not a newbie (sort of) A little sroty of what happened to me at work and a chance for anyone to say hello :)

    Anyway, i was at work and had to put a mobile p3 1.2 cpu (which arnt cheep) into a machine. I notice one of the pins was bent, to i got the old pliers out to straighten it. I grabbed the pin and my hand got jogged and ripped the pin out. So obviously i dont want to tell the boss, so i thought i'd just put it in anyway. But to my amazement, it booted up and went into windows. I found no fault and left it.

    Any ideas why it still worked?

    Thanks

    DG
     
    .DG., 1 Jul 2002
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  2. jamiesurfs

    jamiesurfs Boom Boom, Cha Cha Cha!

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    Welcome to the Forums!

    Not sure why it still worked, but you may find that errors begin to pop up in the future. i would just keep it quiet and hope no one notices if I were you!;)
     
    jamiesurfs, 1 Jul 2002
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  3. Comb@t

    Comb@t What's a Dremel?

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    If you had the cash - that would make a great geek game - a bit like kerplunk but with your cpu :lol:
     
    Comb@t, 2 Jul 2002
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  4. Adam

    Adam Minimodder

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    Does anyone want to recreate this incident with their own CPU to test whether it was a one off?
     
    Adam, 2 Jul 2002
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  5. herbs

    herbs Nobody but us chickens

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    Go on then adam you can get your duron replacement cheap nowdays :hehe:
     
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  6. .DG.

    .DG. What's a Dremel?

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    Yeah its funny because i thought every pins function was important, and needed to work.
     
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  7. George

    George Bah

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    i may have a go on my XP2000+ later...

    or maybe not, lol.

    good idea on the game, keep taking it in turns, pulling a pin out, untill it dosnt work, hehe.

    .icecube
     
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  8. xen0morph

    xen0morph Bargain wine connoisseur

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    You got lucky mate :D

    i think that cpu has about 100 pins? or more?

    And about 2 of them do a grounding function !:D

    You got a 1% chance of the CPU still working and it did!
    LOL
     
    xen0morph, 7 Jul 2002
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  9. hydrogen18

    hydrogen18 Banned

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    sounds like playing russian roullette with your cpu.
     
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  10. felix the cat

    felix the cat Spaceman Spiff

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    more crazee talk, chuck it in general discussion...:eyebrow:
     
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  11. samuelellis

    samuelellis What's a Dremel?

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    /me runs off to get wire cutters from the shed to chop pins off my cpu, right which 1 of you will buy me a shiny new one when i tell you how many pins less it takes to stop it working ? :lol:
     
    samuelellis, 8 Jul 2002
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  12. KypD

    KypD What's a Dremel?

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    i guess newer processor's pins are much more delicate, but when making a keychain out of my old 486dxII processor, i had to grap the pins with the pliers, and bend them back and forth at least 10 times while pulling had for it to come off.
     
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  13. xen0morph

    xen0morph Bargain wine connoisseur

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    lol

    I've got a Motorola keychain out of my old Atari ST :D
     
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  14. Angel_of_Death

    Angel_of_Death What's a Dremel?

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    sound's like a fun game. not that i'm gonna try that with my new P4 though!
     
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