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[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 29 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Yeahhhh.... It's suuuuper easy!

Nothing can possibli go wrong....

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

The horror! Seriously, I actually made the courier stand for 3 minutes while I did the CPU pins check.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I usually use a razor blade to scrape all those fuckers off anyway. Don't want any spikies poking my motherboard!

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 15 points 17 hours ago
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 15 hours ago

Was there, used a plier.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Retract the lead in a mechanical pencil and slide it over the pin to bend it back.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I used the razor blade trick and got everything more or less aligned and upright enough that the processor is okay booting up with a second stick of ram in the machine lol

Tech YouTubers to the rescue lol, especially Linus and jayztwocents

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Ugh I had to do this with an internal SCSI drive many years ago, it would only reliably save if you held the back of the cable in, otherwise the pin might short just enough that the operation wouldn't work. But I was a broke Jr High kid so there was no choice. Bent pins give me nightmares to this day.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Had to do this recently and couldn’t believe it worked. https://lemmy.world/post/16160426

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 15 hours ago

Haha sure, linus

[–] zeca@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

I remember lifting one of these bent pins with a kitchen knife feeling like i probably was making the problem worse... but it ended up working fine