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[sharonjs]

Ok, so I bought a new motherboard, I wanted to take it back to the store and I could not figure out how to put the cover back on the cpu. I had inadvertently bent the pin so the store would not accept the motherboard. I was not aware that I had bent the pins, four pins got bent. I was determine to straighten them out now that I have no choice but to keep the board.

I bought a 4 gig ram for it and I have installed the board, now I have straighten out the pin but of course it still does not look like the others, I started up my computer and it did not post right away I had left it on the first time and it posted after about 10 minutes, but I was not able to install anything from the dvd rom since it takes so long to post, it ask for me to hit a key in order to boot from the cd, but it restarts and then it goes through that whole process.

I am out of ideas. I figure I will probably need to buy another motherboard, but I want to try and see if I can get this one to work if I can.

Any help will be much appreciated.

[Berton]

Sounds like you got a motherboard for one of the newer Pentium 4 CPUs where the pins for the CPU are actually in the socket, not on the CPU itself which has only contacts to mate to those pins [different from the older P4s]. Once the pins are damaged they are difficult to correct, quite delicate. I'd accept lesson learned and get a new motherboard.

[Man'n'Black-4xp]

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Once the pins are damaged they are difficult to correct, quite delicate. I'd accept lesson learned and get a new motherboard.

As a electronics technican I would totally agree with Berton, that board is toast...recycle it.

[sharonjs]

ok, thanks.