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
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.
Yeahhhh… It’s suuuuper easy!
Nothing can possibli go wrong…
I usually use a razor blade to scrape all those fuckers off anyway. Don’t want any spikies poking my motherboard!
SMORT!!
The horror! Seriously, I actually made the courier stand for 3 minutes while I did the CPU pins check.
Was there, used a plier.
Retract the lead in a mechanical pencil and slide it over the pin to bend it back.
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
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.
Had to do this recently and couldn’t believe it worked. https://lemmy.world/post/16160426
Haha sure, linus
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