- Nov 26, 2005
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I was swapping out my chip for a better one and I dropped the old one back into the exposed pins and socket. It looks like one of the pins is flattened out. I tried to lift it back up with no luck. I probably could with some surgical glasses.. The back story is I didn't reset the bios. I just dropped the new chip in: from an L5639 Xeon to an X5650 Xeon.. from what I understand is the TDP is a little higher from, 60w - 95w, and the multiplier is higher, 16x - 20x respectively. So I didn't reset the bios; thought I had a bent pin; booted up the machine and it didn't do anything except power the fans, GPU, and SDD drives.. I reset the bios, booted, nothing again. I pulled the X5650 and replaced it with the L5639 and pulled the bios battery. The system booted up fine and I am typing this from the very machine. Can a system run with a pin not touching the chip? It might or it might not be touching the CPU. I'm not sure. But all I know is the L5639 works, and the X5650 doesn't. The last thing I'm thinking is the X5650 is dead but the next thing that is suspicious is the motherboard support yet at the same time they are both Westmere chips :hmm: