GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS CPU Socket Bent and Damaged Pins Repair

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[joeturner]

For anyone still interested the pin that broke off was a VCCGT pin. These pins deliver power to the integrated graphics. There are upwards of 15 of these pins so chances are the board would still work.

[andreassheriff]

This is the scariest video I have ever seen.

[Dave]

This is the ultimate nightmare repair. Nice work and incredible patience.

[kenro]

Fibers on the tweezers triggers my OCD

[DorianBrytestar]

I have been building my own pcs and those for friends and family for almost 20 years. Last time the chip types were changed I jacked up 3 motherboards by not putting the CPUs in correctly :( so fragile! I tried to straighten the bent pins on one MB but it was never good enough. Mad respect for your work sir!

[umyweb]

When you started straightening them, I held my breath lol... sign of a great video! Thank you for sharing.

[mikezappulla]

This is a video done by a real professional who knows what he is doing. Hard to find on YouTube these days.

[rowanballinger]

The patience you have for that is amazing 🤩

[kennyj]

Incredible steady hands Brother. If I lived in your area you definitely would get our families business. Great job 👍🙂

[frankmjr]

Steady hands of a surgeon, pretty amazing.

[RKiNFo]

Same condition happened with my motherboard pins and I had relocated them to correct position after watching this video.
Everything works fine now.
Thank you for this video.🙂

[joshuaneale]

Thanks for posting this dude, watching you do this gave me the confidence to try the same (and successfully fix) my new Z490i Unify's fully u-shaped pin!

[N.e.a.l.K.a.s.h.y.a.p]

You must be a neurologist, why you are here sir.
Anyway huge respect to this electronical nero surgeon.

[tomclanys]

I've bent a few pins (around 3 or more) when cutting a LGA 775 socket to fit a 771 Xeon CPU. Managed to straighten them with the same scalpel blade with my naked eye, no magnifiers and such. The CPU worked for whole 6 years no problem until I've upgraded :)

[Derricky]

I took at a lot of your videos. You got a big experience and knowledge. Your skill level is very, very good. Hat down for the patience on this job. I would not bother myself to straighten the pins. I did not count them in the video, but i would do a socket replacement right away. It is dependent how lucky you are. If you have broken signal pins, then it makes no sense to straighten the rest of them. I would go max for 3 bent pins, more than that, only a socket replacement.

[ovalwingnut]

SILVER LINING: Customer has learned a invaluable lesson... 1st hand. S/he will never make that mistake again. And will use this experience to help others in the future.. :) Thank you.

[waynemasek]

Awesome precision. Only wished he could have installed the CPU to see if all the straightened pins worked?

[blackie]

Maybe you must have to heat the pins to the medium temprature so its little bit easy to fix and decrease the chances of braking pins

[jssabdo]

🇩🇿انت فنان كل. فيديو تتعلم منك .اكمل عملك وخلي الدعم علينا

[Dandan-tgtj]

My worst nightmarish bent pin repair was when I had to solder a new upper 3 quarters of a pin on a remaining quarter of the broken pin. Cut a new pin to fit the missing part, used a little bit of solder paste and a hot air station. I wish I had a stereo microscope to be able to work such fine interventions.