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Old 12-30-2008, 09:16 AM
TheWickerMan TheWickerMan is offline
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Originally Posted by Prometheus View Post
3 of my CPU pins on the motherboard were bent.

So. Had to drop another 120$ on a mobo. Installing vista and ubuntu later :-D
If you feel daring enough, you could probably salvage the motherboard by bending the pins back in place with a tiny screwdriver. I don't know how bad your damage is, but I've saved a few mobo/processors from the trash by doing that.
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