I am looking for recommendations for repairing a 1200-pin CPU socket with a few bent pins, possibly one broken pin. Or someone who can judge if the socket, and thus the entire motherboard board, can be repaired.
This is my son’s project, and he and I tried fixing the pins with sewing needles, but I am not sure we can actually see how well we’ve done it.
We don’t have a separate setup for comparison testing. Maybe it’s the CPU; maybe it’s the socket, maybe it’s the motherboard.
We could use the eBay warrant return, but why not try a local expert?
Like Janet said, the microscope is really useful for something like this. For the broken pin, I’d suggest looking the purpose of the pin in the diagram for LGA1200 below. If you’re lucky and it is one of the VSS pins, I’d just leave it alone; 9/10 times it should not pose any problem as such.
Thanks for the suggestions. Given my son’s lack of enthusiasm, we took the motherboard to The Hackery and they judged the socket to be irreparable. He’s now paying off the cost of the diagnosis.