Got lucky... but still burned myself.

[Medessec]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjwZ4kfJiU

I was shopping on ebay and found this Gigabyte motherboard for uber cheap-and reading the description a bit I figured it was a customer return. They said it worked before, and as soon as I saw that, I bid. It was only after I won that I saw the little text at the bottom: "may or may not work." But I got it in... and the socket turned out to have a bunch of bent pins.

So I spent about half an hour with a lamp over it, and a tiny flathead and a needle bending them back, or at least to where they could contact the CPU. Then I threw in a G520 and gave it a couple of tries.

It worked! So I went ahead and did something I've never really seen anyone else try... touch the exposed Celeron with my finger and see how hot it was. The result was as expected.

[Radioguy]

I'd love to see your fingerprint record after your arrest.

[Medessec]

LOL! That's pretty good.

[jronald]

I did the same thing on an AthlonXP a few years ago. Have NOT forgotten that lesson!

Ron

[Brian10161]

I'd love to see your fingerprint record after your arrest.

my sides

[lead_org]

Whoa i thought i iust saw the younger version of Steve Jobs in the youtube video.

[ThinkRob]

Ever boot a board with a 115W Pentium 4 EE and forget to attach the heatsink first?

It's a very visual lesson in why cooling is important.