Dropped my Ryzen 4650G while doing an upgrade to 5700x, and it landed straight on its corner. Now it has become a very expensive paperweight all because I was too hasty and not careful enough.
Do people just throw this stuff straight into the garbagebin or do something else?
EDIT 1 - Photos attached. Not a single bent pin. Only corners.
can you share picture of the damage
maybe it can be salvaged
Show us how bad the pins have bent. Unless a pin is actually broken they can be set in place albeit with utmost care and patience..
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It still got value if not damaged so bad. As others said it can be repaired.
Edited my post with photos. No pins were harmed during the process. Only corners.
i think it will still work, u can definitely give it a shot
Nope doesn’t work. First thing I did was install it right back into the Gigabyte 450m mobo where from I initially pulled it out from for upgrading to 5700x. No post.
Few days later tried installing it in a MSI b550m-a pro mobo. Still no post.
did you try resetting bios ?
Cleared CMOS on b450m. Updated the BIOS to latest since I was upgrading to 5700x anyways.
But the MSI b550m was brand new. So didn’t even bother.
i think we are out of luck then
Yeah, I am afraid so. Garbagebin it is then.
Unless it has some other value that I am currently ignorant of.
not that i am aware of maybe others can help
Level 1 : Polishing and making the IHS into a shiny keychain.
Level 2 : Desoldering the pins for someone may be able to use them in the rare case of broken missing pins on their Processor
Some pretty interesting ideas.
To answer the question, usually with tears.
Sometimes corner drops only result in a memory channel or two being affected, so try other slots, if you haven’t done so already.
Hey, @LinkdJay if you are not doing anything with the cpu, are you willing to sell it to me for parts. DM me, please.
The edges are chipped and appear slightly deformed. There could be internal damage or fractures inside the CPU PCB which may be hard to find. That might be it for your CPU.
DM’ed you.
