[TriEmbed] Help! Bent MB pin... need someone with good eyes and a steady hand

[Rodney Radford]

A personal heart-felt thank you to Gene for helping me out of a tough fix.
He was able to find the 4x pins (of 1150 possible) that were bent and
straighten them enough the motherboard is alive again.

I really appreciate him donating his time to this project, and I hope to
bring in the IEEE humanoid robot to a future embedded meeting to show it
off - it really is fascinating to watch the progress on this project. It
can currently detect and track faces, recognize and remember faces, and
carry on a conversation with you (it has a lot of rather sassy responses)
and can remember things from previous conversations with you.  This is only
scratching the surface of the projects we have in mind for him.  In
addition, we are working with the Wake Robotics high school group where
they can take him out on tours to encourage other kids to get excited in
science.

I am sure Gene wouldn't want to do this job every day (massive patience),
but I am glad he helped us on this project.

Thank you!


On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Rodney Radford <ncgadgetry at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a Maximus VII Hero motherboard with an i7 4990k CPU that I put
> together as the brain basis for the new humanoid robot being built by the
> IEEE Robotics and Automation group.
>
> I put everything together about a month ago and it has been working fine.
> Today it booted up to the OS and then promptly shut down a few seconds
> later.  Every attempt since then has resulted in various BIOS POST codes.
>
> Looking online I see that the most obvious cause for the POST codes I was
> seeing was possibly a bent CPU pen, so I pulled out the CPU and I can see
> an area where some pins on the MB are bent.  Crap (actually I used much
> stronger words than that).
>
> Again, consulting the web (and youtube), there are videos of people fixing
> the pins with a decent magnifying glass, a small sewing pin, and patience.
> Since the TriEmbed meeting is tonight, I am planning to bring the MB in
> tonight and see if we can use the large projection screen to see the bent
> pins and possibly repair them.
>
> If anyone is interested in a challenge, and has a steady hand, I could
> really appreciate the help.  My eyes are shot - I certainly can't do it,
> even with a decent magnifying glass - but I am hoping the projection screen
> will help.
>
> If not, I am out $200-300 for the MB, and possibly some for the CPU if it
> was damaged - so I am desperate.  This was also supposed to be in a demo
> next Saturday (June 25th) which is another reason I am freaking out.
>
> So hoping someone can help... leaving the house now and see you about 7pm.
>
> Thanx,
>
>
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