1 cpu pin out.

[Idzwan]

yesterday,friend of mine just broke one of his P166 pin...but the PC can run as usually...is there any effect to the PC?...thanks for any reply.

[jokostel]

each pin on a cpu has a peticular purpose....who knows what will happen....
besides if he wants to replace the chip you can get one on the net for 10$ anyways...

[chad174]

yeah out of 372 pins, everyone of them has a purpose..but some have a combined purpose. he may have some freezing up probs, maybe not. if he does have probs, see if his mobo can support a k6-2...its better and fits in same socket..like a 300 k6-02 or sumthin.

[MickMitani]

Don't jump the gun and buy a K6. First find out if the motherboard can support it. After all, the first post just said P166. It could be a Pentium 166MMX or the original single voltage non-MMX version. Which means that the motherboard could also be non-MMX and therefore could not support the K6 or any other split voltage CPU. A lot of MMX socket 7 boards won't support a CPU above 233 mhz and the slowest K6-2 is a 266. So check that MB out first before buying a CPU.

[Amburgey]

All of the socket CPU's have multiple 'GROUND' pins... sure... they're disposible.. just make sure the little 'nubby' of a pin left isn't making ANY contact for a REAL test.. (I can see small arcs of 3v jumping from the nubby to the socket and crossing paths..

[cobain1crt]

if you do have problems you may be able to do the following...

1. Buy some glue with a high conductivity raating (as close to 1 as possible)

2. Put the broken off pin in the hole it used to go into.

3. Put a tiny little bit of the conductive glue on the broken pin.

4. Put in the cpu, making sure that when you press it down that the glue touches none of the other pins.

the conductive glue will alow the functions of that pin to rsume again.