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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Joker08 on March 06, 2008, 05:57:01 PM

Title: Proccessor Question.
Post by: Joker08 on March 06, 2008, 05:57:01 PM

If by chance while messing around with your proccessor, if you break off one of the little copper pins on the proccessor is the proccessor toast?  ???
 Please give me a shout and let me know.
  Thanks
     Joker

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: neljan on March 07, 2008, 06:36:53 AM

I don't know, never happened to me before... why, is that what you've done?

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: Dias de verano on March 07, 2008, 07:09:27 AM

Quote from: Joker08 on March 06, 2008, 05:57:01 PM

If by chance while messing around with your proccessor, if you break off one of the little copper pins on the proccessor is the proccessor toast?  ???
 Please give me a shout and let me know.
  Thanks
     Joker

Very very probably. Processors, like all computer components, should be handled carefully. Most pins are absolutely essential, but sometimes a few are duplicates for e.g. extra grounding or are unconnected. The only way to be sure is to to mount it on a motherboard and see if it works. If it doesn't then you definitely know it is toast, and you have learned that some kinds of messing around can be very expensive! Also, the word processor only has one letter 'c'.

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: squall_01 on March 07, 2008, 09:30:11 AM

You killed the processor.  It can't be fixed as when there made a certain number of pins that run certain processes. 

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: homer on March 07, 2008, 11:17:09 AM

i must add, in the future, handle processors with extreme care. this includes not touching or even breathing on the underside of a processor. (breathing on it can cause moisture to condense on the pins). the same goes for the CPU socket on the motherboard.

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: patio on March 07, 2008, 01:07:38 PM

I was able to run an older Pentium that was being canned because of this by extracting the pin slightly and re-installing the CPU.
Worked for about 6 months til it finally took a dump.

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: Joker08 on March 10, 2008, 07:20:20 PM

thanks guys, the motherboard led light comes on, and the powersupply works when i jumped it, but when i push the power button nothing happends, the processor just never kicks on. so the computer tech store i took it to thought it may be the motherboard but i baught a new motherboard but it did the exact same thing so then i started thinking and remember i recently screwed up and broke a a outside corner pin off when my compuer crashed. i guess i will try a new processor.
  Joker

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: Joker08 on March 11, 2008, 01:30:19 PM

One more question, even if the processor was dead when i push the power button wouldn't the processor fan turn on atleast or no?
 Joker

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: Aegis on March 11, 2008, 01:33:05 PM

Yes, because the fan would draw power from the power bus.

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: Deerpark on March 11, 2008, 02:08:08 PM

Not necessarily. I can't speak for all motherboards here but the ones I have replaced a faulty CPU or memory stick on, the board (including fans) wouldn't power before it had a working part installed.

Title: Re: Proccessor Question.
Post by: Aegis on March 11, 2008, 03:26:41 PM

:: sigh ::  You're right, Deerpark.  I guess it is any iffy proposition...