First post, by Dhall
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Hello,
I have recently bought 2 Pentium Pro processors: both came with bent pins.
I always take great care when bending back cpu pins and I never snapped a pin....until now. The A1 pin was bent 90 degrees and immediately snapped as I tried to bend it back.
According to specifications this is a VREF0 pin. "There are 8 VREF pins on the Pentium Pro processor to ensure that internal noise will not affect
the performance of the I/O buffers."
Is there a chance, that this cpu will work nonetheless? I don't have a Socket 8 motherboard, so I cannot test it.
Also, if it was vital, what is the best method to put the pin back on the cpu? (I heard of a method to just drop in the pin into the proper socket hole and put the cpu on top of it....)
Thank you for your help!