Motherboard fixable?

I have a biostar N68S3B mother board. The CPU socket bends the pins on the processor when you attemt to plug it in. I tried several processors with same result. I had the lever all the way up. I ordered a new board but want to repair this one if that's possible. This is a great category, you guys are good!

 

I did not look up this board to see what processor it uses . I know one of the A.M.D. processors used skinny pins . I think it was the AMD 339 or 340 , but this is a few years old now .

 

It's hard to say without seeing it, but if the pins are just a little bent you can carefully use a mechanical pencil (with lead removed) and bend them into shape. This video's pretty good, I had to do the same thing around Thanksgiving.


It worked, but if you have a warranty, that's what I'd recommend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhOYEQ65a94

 

Thanks, I take it the mobo is outdated and not worth repairing. I straightened the pins, my problem is the MB bends them again on any processor, guess the socket's fuked

 

Hear is a link , it uses an AMD AM3 processor . I think the AM3 has the skinny pins and the AM3 + is just a bit thicker and not as easy to bend .
http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=517

 

It's an older board and supports AMD processors;

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=517#cpu


Hmmm, how do I put this......

I hope you didn't pay the guy who built it very much $$$$.
Biostar are really bottom-rung when it comes to MOBO's, and I would never, never, ever use a Biostar board for a gaming system, never.
Via audio chipset..... *nox shudders uncontrollably*

Gigabyte and Asus are pretty much the two top dogs with MSI bringing up the rear, and avoid ANYTHING that uses ANY component from VIA.

My honest opinion is to replace the board, here is some comparable replacements from Newegg, remember, micro-ATX form factor from Gigabyte, Asus or MSI, no matter how good the price looks on other brands. There is a reason they are cheap.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007625%20600138080&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=100

 

I'm not certain, but if you can't see what in the socket is causing the bent pins, it's probably not worth it.

 

Yeah, motherboards and power supplies are where it's always good to spend a little more.

 

I have a bunch of old mother boards with different things wrong with them . I think it could be a bad cap. or some thing else , but there probly not worth fixing . The same with a bunch of t.v.s and old monotors .

http://www.badcaps.net/forum/
http://www.frys.com/search?cat=-69574&pType=pDisplay&fq=100343 AMD

 

DON'T SHOP AT FRY'S !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They literally take items that have been returned and shrink wrap them and put them back on the shelf, have seen it done with my own eyes and they have been sued a few times for it, plus I have never encountered anyone at Fry's who actually knew a damn thing.

 

unless you are skilled and can do it yourself, it is usually more expensive to replace/repair components on a board rather than replacing the entire board.

 

most electronic stuff today is not worth fixing . It is easier/cheeper just to buy something new . I remember when a t.v. had a bunch of vacuum tubes . You could take them out and check them . I only posted the frys link because it was handy , there are a bunch of other places to buy electronic parts .
http://www.newegg.com/Motherboards/Category/ID-20

 

I took it as a payment for past due debt. He said it was a gaming computer as did the Charter tech when he hooked up my inet. I wouldn't have a clue, I know very little about computers and less about gaming. It has 8 gigs of ram and a duel monitor video card. I'll shitcan the bad mobo, as the experts suggest. I'm going to upgrade the substandard components and learn to build one. Thanks for the knowledgable post, I'm certain you haven't heard the last from me.

 

See, you can replace caps and resistors (the electrolytic caps) on the mobo that are big enough to be worked on by a human but thing is most electronics these days have a lot less components like that. Most of the components are integrated into just a relatively few chips that are all connected to the board. There will be a bunch of tiny ass surface mount resistors (pull down/pull up resistors) and capacitors that are mostly there to match the impedance of different chip pins and shit to the bus it's connected to. Nothing communicates directly i raw binary unless it's very close because at the high freq. chips these days are clocked at EMI is a real issue so long distance communication (yes even on the same board) is always encoded somehow (such as 8b/10b type scheme...)to reduce errors/interference at the expemse of a little overhead/bandwidth.

You might also find a few larger transistors and a few inductors...this is the VRM that regulates the voltages for CPU/memory/etc but all those smaller components are way too small to work on even with a magnifying glass, tweezers and a tiny soldering iron tip. Your more likely to short out pins with solder cuz the truth is they designed that shit on a computer and had robots that put all those components in the right place on the board and then they solder everything in one go with the exception of maybe a very few components. There's also usually a collection of small pads that are test pads that you can test the board on with a multimeter/oscilloscope...these are used for quality control and bad boards are removed from the manufacturing process. On better motherboards these are for the user too if they know what they are doing otherwise you might short out components with ur test leads cuz those spots are tiny.

Just don't throw away everything...find out what's good and what's bad and get rid of what's not good and what is good either re-use/sell/give to a friend or something. Just make sure anything that looks like it would fuck up another system that you don't put in another system.