Solved I broke a pin off my Ryzen 5600X, now my monitors will only respond with 1 stick of RAM, not 2?

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I took out my Ryzen 5600X to clean and reapply thermal paste. I had trouble this time putting the stock cooler fan back on and used a bit of force to get all four screws to mount to my motherboard properly. When I pressed the power button on my tower, I got no response. I removed and reseated the CPU and cooler a few more times after that. After maybe the 3rd/4th time, I saw that the CPU had a few pins bent. I used some tweezers to try to realign some pins and one broke off. I looked up a pinout diagram and it looks like that pin is VSS, one of many ground pins scattered throughout the unit.

I turned on the power and the fans started spinning, but my monitors weren't getting any signal. I tinkered around for a bit, and one time I was able to get in to the BIOS but it couldn't detect any bootable devices, even though BIOS was recognizing my SSD.

I then tried swapping and repeatedly reseating the RAM chips again, and I found out that it would only work now with 1 stick of RAM in the B2 slot (4th from left). However it still brought me to BIOS with no bootable devices. I only got it to work by enabling CSM and rebooting.

I still cannot use my 2nd stick of RAM because if I do my monitors will stay black. What can I do to fix this? Could that broken pin from my 5600X be the problem here? If so how would I fix a broken pin on my CPU?
 
While I am absolutely no expert down to the pinout level of a CPU, in my book, they don't have pins just for "sh!ts and giggles", so my guess is that pin is important.
Of course the best test would be to get your hands on another compatible CPU and try that.
Was the rig working fine before you started playing with the CPU?
 
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Bruce said:
While I am absolutely no expert down to the pinout level of a CPU, in my book, they don't have pins just for "sh!ts and giggles", so my guess is that pin is important.
Of course the best test would be to get your hands on another compatible CPU and try that.
Was the rig working fine before you started playing with the CPU?
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Yes there were no problems before all this happened. I'm also not noticing any major issues with my CPU or entire setup now that I'm running 8GB ram. CPU temps aren't super high and the fans have been operating at around the same speed/noise. However I'm about to put in an order for a new CPU just to be safe. Would there be any potential harm in continuing to run this CPU that could affect the rest of my parts?
 
Again, while no expert at this level, one side of me says I can't see an issue, but the other side thinks you have a ground pin that is no longer grounded so, I'm not sure would be the honest answer.
 
Bruce said:
@HamHead0 - any news?
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Even though practically I haven't run into any major issues using my PC with this broken pin, I've gotten a lot of advice to simply replace my CPU, so I've ordered a 5700X3D replacement/upgrade. The only issues I've noticed are my CPU fan will start getting really noisy immediately after launching a program/game and run at around 85C but then quiet down after a bit. Also every game I've played seems to run fine except for Fortnite, a game known to be CPU intensive, which has crashed on me a handful of times for the first time in two years of playing. It's also gotten increasingly choppy and unplayable, and I mean 1 FPS, even at the very start of a game.
 
It would be hard to speculate on any other potential causes for you issues when there is a known, drastic, issue with the CPU.
Best to wait till that is replaced then we'll go from there. (y)
 
Bruce said:
Do you have a time frame for the new CPU arrival?
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New 5700X3D has already arrived. Haven't run into any problems except for the fact that I need to run DCM mode in BIOS or else it never gets past BIOS. This only started happening since I broke the pin from the 5600X. But there shouldn't be any downsides or impact on performance from DCM right?
 
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