Originally posted by: GuniGuGu
OKies.. so i've been messing a bit with my cpu, and i took it out again today to put some AS5 on it, and as i'm cleaning the heatsink, i've rested the cpu on the fabric + plastic casing that the cpu actually comes in (the one inside the box) anyhoo, as i pick up the cpu, I find 2 pins have broken off!!!!
These 2 pins were bent before too, and well, they basically prevented me from posting in dual channel, but i straightend them up, and it worked, however, they were very brittle and have snapped off, far too easily...
So now i'm stuck with an X2 3800 which can not opperate in dual channel memory.
I was thinking i could maybe solder them back on espically considering they are in the far corner.... but i have no idea where the pins even are now, more so, I really don't feel too comfortable soldering on a chip like the x2-3800, espically cuz my soldering skills are very very poor...
I'm so sad, i've put together soo many machines before, and this is the first time, i've actually, spent so much $$$ on a damn cpu, only to have it do this now!!!