Hey I have, (had) a great TR4 motherboard that I bought used with a 1920x already in it and worked great. Later I bought a 2970wx and so I flashed the new bios and after reseating a few times I finally got to Bios and everything showed. Well when I powered down again I had the same issues and finally was unable to boot. I took it apart and looked and saw just about 4 or 5 bent pins in the socket. I will attach photos. Maybe it’s possible that I bent them. I don’t remember doing it but because I have CMT IIa I do have tremors. Nonetheless I’m not trying to sell it or anything I have already bought two motherboards for the 1st and second generation Threadrippers. Although neither are as nice as my first one was. The board is I believe an Asus zenith extreme alpha or something close. If anyone is good at straightening the pins in the CPU socket and you can see in the photos it’s yours. I’m not trying to get back to sell or anything . I would send everything I have like a USB key and the thing that holds 2 M.2 NVME drives (for a total of 3 ) and mounts right beside the RAM and looks like a RAM socket. It has a cute code screen that when done has like a dragon running with flames or custom data or Gifs. It has built in start and stop buttons as well as slow boot switches and dual bios as well as a lot of other things for “extreme” overclocking. Just fix it and use it well or give it to a school or something good. If it was fixed I thought about the kids tech school that Gamers Nexus Channels is involved in. I 'm about an hour east of his area. But really as nice as it is/ was I can’t imagine throwing it away. I have seen them being sold used for parts only on ebay for a good chunk. So I don’t care what you do as long as you give your word that you’ll try to fix the board then do what you want. I will ship it to you no problem. I just looked and found 1920x for $112. So with that and some ddr4 you would be in the door
By the way this is my first real post hear so it’s nice to be a part!
I can’t see the photos but I hope they were the right ones.
if the pins aint snapped you can with care bend them back into place…
problem is though…
if its anything over a 45’ bend theres more than a chance the pin will break.
so its entirely up to you if you want to risk that…
you could also take the chip to a solder station (an electronics repair shop that does actually electronic repairs not just swaps out parts) some one like louis rossmann. and get them to desolder the broken pins and replace them with new.
wont be cheap…
I’ve had good luck fixing bent pins in the past, I’d be happy to take a shot at it. If I can verify that it’s working I can ship it back to you when I’m done if you’d like.
I’ll shoot you a pm.
My method is to use an empty 0.5 mechanical pencil. Simply fit the bent pin into the cylinder, and gently bend it upright. I’ve fixed several PGA CPUs this way. If you have a relative with steady hands, let them give it a try.
Just wanted to make note that wizardfata is kindly taking it off my hands.
Thanks for the post. With my tremors I would surely bend more pins than I would fix.
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