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[anthony_leanos]

@anthony leanos - any good news yet on the new hardware?

Yes! I got my heat sink and fan today. But I took my cpu out to clean some of that thermal paste off and I notice some of the pins on the socket are bent. Do you think that might be causing my problem? And can I fix it by bending them back?

[Bruce]

“could that be causing the issue” - hell yes is my immediate answer.
each pin in there has a function, none are ‘spares’ or only there for cosmetic reasons.

and it looks like they aren’t just bent, but mangled - maybe beyond repair.
but it will be a suck-it-and-see exercise.

at the very least you are up for a new motherboard, either as is, or if you try to unbend them and end up snapping any.
so nothing to lose on that front.

next issue, once that’s rectified is, has any of the cross-over pins caused a short and fried the processor!

[anthony_leanos]

“could that be causing the issue” - hell yes is my immediate answer.
each pin in there has a function, none are ‘spares’ or only there for cosmetic reasons.

and it looks like they aren’t just bent, but mangled - maybe beyond repair.
but it will be a suck-it-and-see exercise.

at the very least you are up for a new motherboard, either as is, or if you try to unbend them and end up snapping any.
so nothing to lose on that front.

next issue, once that’s rectified is, has any of the cross-over pins caused a short and fried the processor!

Alright perfect, I’m glad that I’ve found the problem. I unbent the pins on the motherboard but I’ll put the heat sink on tomorrow when I have some more time. Until then I’ll be praying to some kind of god that the processor ISNT fried. I’ll update you as soon as I get it on and I’ll send some pics of everything as well

[anthony_leanos]

“could that be causing the issue” - hell yes is my immediate answer.
each pin in there has a function, none are ‘spares’ or only there for cosmetic reasons.

and it looks like they aren’t just bent, but mangled - maybe beyond repair.
but it will be a suck-it-and-see exercise.

at the very least you are up for a new motherboard, either as is, or if you try to unbend them and end up snapping any.
so nothing to lose on that front.

next issue, once that’s rectified is, has any of the cross-over pins caused a short and fried the processor!

I put in my heat sink and fan and it works! I’m not really sure what to do now, though. The resolution on the screen is pretty funky, it looks like the picture is too big for my monitor. But does my computer just work now? Or is there more to it than that?

[Bruce]

I’m assuming you just built this thing from scratch, and now we have it booting, have you loaded Windows?
if so, then comes the motherboard driver that should have come on a DVD in the motherboard box.
install those, doing the chipset drivers first.

then you need to install the graphics card driver.
again, it should have come with a DVD in the box, but I’m not sure if you got new or used parts.
if no DVD, go to the AMD website and get the software for the RX550.

[Bruce]

@anthony leanos - where we at?

[Bruce]

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