A little story.. and a lesson to be learned... lol

[MrMoo]

heres a little story.... when i was installing my new cpu.. i couldnt get the fan on right on the motherboard.. so i decided to flip it around, not realizing that the thermal paste picked the cpu up with the fan.. so i flipped it around and was trying to fasten the heatsink.. it wouldnt fasten, so i was about to flip it back over when i realized the cpu was stuck on the heat sink!!! i bent 2 of the pins.. lol.. i was so freaked out.. i was about to cry... i tried fixing with a screw driver but that just made it worse.... long story short i fixed it with a plastic card from my wallet (in the end i bent 5 pins) and works fine.. lol.. it was so scary..... and it was a new athlon 64 3500+......

[TheRaySta]

lol nice one. Im building myself a comp in 5 days and I hope that doesn't happen to me.

[purple_rabbit]

yeah i got the same kinda problem when i was building my computer lol. Well in my case, my processor was stuck to the heatsync with the thermal paste. i put it down for a while to do something, i came back and the whole thing fell on the floor lol. I had a whole column of pins bent lol, guess what it still worked after that lol :lol:

[MrMoo]

yeah i got the same kinda problem when i was building my computer lol. Well in my case, my processor was stuck to the heatsync with the thermal paste. i put it down for a while to do something, i came back and the whole thing fell on the floor lol. I had a whole column of pins bent lol, guess what it still worked after that lol

lol did u bend it bak or did it just pop in? on mine it was a bit of both.. i bent the pins bak as even as i could (looks perfect to the eye) then the pushed on it a bit when installing it and the pins straightened out perfectly.. the pins are so soft tho.. are they gold?

[TenzoR]

RTFM next time? ;)
it's not rocket science

the current generation of heatsink are like plug and play ...

[MrMoo]

lol i was RTFM...

i couldnt get it on tho.. i figured it out after. i had to put the clasp arm ALL the way back

[purple_rabbit]

lol did u bend it bak or did it just pop in? on mine it was a bit of both.. i bent the pins bak as even as i could (looks perfect to the eye) then the pushed on it a bit when installing it and the pins straightened out perfectly.. the pins are so soft tho.. are they gold?

Yeah I think it is made of gold lol.

[UrbanPoet]

ahh.. you gotta be careful with the CPU... it gets tricky.. sometimes the clips that hold the heatsink/fan is hard to pop in and out.

[rilhouse]

i had a hard time with the heatsink when i built my first pc and i did RTFM

[sleepyguy]

LoL... that happened to me once on a socket 7 CPU... for you kiddies that was the Pentium 1 / AMD K2 days.

[pandaharo]

I've installed over 50 CPU's of all kinds, never had a bent pin. ;)

[untaka]

I did the exact same thing last year only it was a 2.8C and it didn't work fine after words

[jory29]

heres a little story.... when i was installing my new cpu.. i couldnt get the fan on right on the motherboard.. so i decided to flip it around, not realizing that the thermal paste picked the cpu up with the fan.. so i flipped it around and was trying to fasten the heatsink.. it wouldnt fasten, so i was about to flip it back over when i realized the cpu was stuck on the heat sink!!! i bent 2 of the pins.. lol.. i was so freaked out.. i was about to cry... i tried fixing with a screw driver but that just made it worse.... long story short i fixed it with a plastic card from my wallet (in the end i bent 5 pins) and works fine.. lol.. it was so scary..... and it was a new athlon 64 3500+......

So you were about to cry, eh? I'd have done the same...Wow, you win post of the day for giving other RFD'ers a moment of panic; that's horrible, but glad it worked out o.k. :)

[Keigotw]

heres a little story.... when i was installing my new cpu.. i couldnt get the fan on right on the motherboard.. so i decided to flip it around, not realizing that the thermal paste picked the cpu up with the fan.. so i flipped it around and was trying to fasten the heatsink.. it wouldnt fasten, so i was about to flip it back over when i realized the cpu was stuck on the heat sink!!! i bent 2 of the pins.. lol.. i was so freaked out.. i was about to cry... i tried fixing with a screw driver but that just made it worse.... long story short i fixed it with a plastic card from my wallet (in the end i bent 5 pins) and works fine.. lol.. it was so scary..... and it was a new athlon 64 3500+......

You should use a mechanical pencil to fix it. The tip
should fit the pins just right.. Make sure you remove the leds from the pencil 1st

[ds2chan]

i had a hard time with the heatsink when i built my first pc and i did RTFM

stupid question but what is rtfm??

[canadiantofu]

stupid question but what is rtfm??

Are you being serious? you don't know what that means? why don't you go read the freaking manual and find out.

[MrMoo]

Are you being serious? you don't know what that means? why don't you go read the freaking manual and find out.

lol nice one

[felix]

Yeah, similar thing happened to me. I didn't realize the new Artic Silver 5 thermal compound was so "stiff" compared to their older ones.

Oh, and wrong forum .. should be moved to Hardware & Software.

[hagbard]

That's nothin'. I once dropped a live electical wire onto the inside of my running computer. It burned a hole right through the case, yet the computer went on like nothing happened.

[MrMoo]

^

wow.. would have sucked if it killed it.. by having it on prly saved it.. cause all the electricity when to the ground wire.... u said u hit the case right? not any of the cards? so it just went straight for the ground wire... u got lucky...