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by frlnBorg 3000 days ago
Use a credit card! I helped a friend build a PC, but when the parts came in he eagerly attempted to put the CPU in the mobo and then proceeded to crush 1/3 of the pins. We used tweezers to "unmash" the pins, and a credit card to fully align them. Worked like a charm.
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Alupis 3000 days ago
Always used a mechanical pencil without the lead in it...
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watersb 3000 days ago
I had to use a credit card to fix one of these builds... :-)

Actually, your credit-card suggestion is useful. My last bent-pin disater was fortunately a mostly-obsolete PGA Pentium 4 CPU, tweezers and careful, repeated re-insertions into the socket sorted it out. Given that the CPU could be had for about $5, it wasn't worth the effort, but I was trying to help a friend and I felt stupid for dropping the CPU.

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