owdy there, this in my mind is long so just skip to the 2nd paragraph
Last week i was replacing a crummy processor fan which is my least favorite thing to do cause of previous p4 damage when the heatsink and processor sometimes stuck together . So to aviod that painfully stupid feeling of the hair dryer to a heatsink as well as the risk of bending pins like last time i worked my computer to the max for at least 16 hours so the cpu wouldn't stick to the heatsink and stay in the board. Of course this dint happen so when the fan/heatsink was removed the cpu stuck to it but it didnt cause any pins to bend but i wasnt clear yet..... i bumped the cpu on the corner of my Raedon!!
This time 1 single pin broke off the p4 processor none bent. the p4 came in a barebones system my now ex partner got so there was no warranty and i was unsure the only answer i could find besides just chuck it so i thought of my own hacker rigged way. I recovered the pin that fell off and with the help of tweezers and a q-tip i placed the pin into the slot on the motherboard where it would have been in if it was attached to the p4 placed the p4 on locked it down powered it up and now it perfectlly fine. Does anyone else see that as to easy or know a little more about this cause it has now been on straight for 24 hours no problems please email mail me or reply to this post at
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Last week i was replacing a crummy processor fan which is my least favorite thing to do cause of previous p4 damage when the heatsink and processor sometimes stuck together . So to aviod that painfully stupid feeling of the hair dryer to a heatsink as well as the risk of bending pins like last time i worked my computer to the max for at least 16 hours so the cpu wouldn't stick to the heatsink and stay in the board. Of course this dint happen so when the fan/heatsink was removed the cpu stuck to it but it didnt cause any pins to bend but i wasnt clear yet..... i bumped the cpu on the corner of my Raedon!!
This time 1 single pin broke off the p4 processor none bent. the p4 came in a barebones system my now ex partner got so there was no warranty and i was unsure the only answer i could find besides just chuck it so i thought of my own hacker rigged way. I recovered the pin that fell off and with the help of tweezers and a q-tip i placed the pin into the slot on the motherboard where it would have been in if it was attached to the p4 placed the p4 on locked it down powered it up and now it perfectlly fine. Does anyone else see that as to easy or know a little more about this cause it has now been on straight for 24 hours no problems please email mail me or reply to this post at
(*edited by mod)