How To DIY CPU socket Remove for repair Intel LGA - 388 

I didn't think you'd actually try it, but congratulations on the effort; that was impressive. Can't wait for part 2!

The cool thing about this is you did it all with stuff you already had, short of the board heater. Nice job!!

i am seeing this for the first time 5 years after you first posted it. Very ingenious and clever. Thank you. I'm trying it with a socket for a Mac Pro 2013

You can remove it once it is 200 degrees C. I think the PCB can handle the 200 degrees. You don't need that foil there, there are no heat sensitive components there. It only makes it more difficult to raise the BGA socket out. That Infrared thermometer appears to be very useful. Heat the socket to 200 degrees C, and lift it off, but don't heat it to 300 degrees,

great to see you growing. keep at it :) wish i knew about electronics as much as you do. definitely interesting

Great video!! I like your shop, about a year ago I quit my auto repair job, that I had been doing for 30 years, and got a new job servicing medical devices. In the year I have been doing this I have gotten pretty good at micro soldering. I have been thinking Id love to start a small side job doing general electronics repair. I still have all my auto repair tools, but most of them are useless when it comes to electronics repair, though some are still useful. I just found your channel today, liked and subbed. You seem like a good guy, Im sure Ill enjoy your videos.

Morton, order some high temp kapton tape. the generic from china works fine. Cover the caps and stuff with it and it will help protect the parts. use some solder wick to remove the solder bridges on the pads. yes the difficult part will be soldering the new socket. temperature control will be imperative, too low and not all the joints will flow, too high and the plastic will melt. You can buy a "reflow station" for under $50 from china and it has a soldering iron station too. I finally got one and use it All the time and love it!

Nothing is lost, all to gain! I like that expression.

1. Your shield is to narrow - You have to allow air to move laterally off the edges of the chip. 2. It helps to preheat the board from lower side to something like 100°C. It eases heating of the chip and lessens the thermal stresses. You could use thermal plate that is used with DIY 3D printers for this. Or a couple of heating lamps or grill heater with a small vent. 3. It is _really_ recommended to control the temps, Both preheater and main heater. get yourself a couple of cheap sensors and arduino. You are not supposed to "cook" the board or the chip for longer than neccesary or to overshoot peak temp significantly. 4. Remove the chip vertically. For this, you have to have hood access. Perhaps a small hole in heater's tube could be used of this, so that chip can be removed, while heater is still above it, preferably with spring actions ( spring lifts it at the moment solder liquifies).

nice to see the basement again been a while lol, noticed the aa battery backups still there too.... how long did it take to remove it etc. wish you luck hope it all works out for you.

If you want that heater to be more effective, you could seal the base of your makeshift rework station and add a small fan to push air past the heater and up towards the board. That should make it more efficient than it is now.

I would love to see what an LGA 2011 socket looks like removed.

You are a really brave for doing this! Thanks for the vid.

Hahahahahh the heat gun modification got me laughing good "Now that's a bit more square" Also that's the most extensive kludge I've ever seen, good job!

FYI if there aren't any pins missing you can just straighten them out and it should work again. I did that with a mobo I found in the trash for my friends pc and it's been working great every since.

Hello Mr Hjorth! This might be a stupid question but is there a cheep good server that can have a "gaming" gpu inside?

Can you tell me the temperature in celcius degrees from your heating element in the bottom please ? Thank's a lot. Love-Love !

Morten, that is an ROG board, do you play some games then or do you just stick to server stuff?

Morton, I'm fairly confident this would have worked better with a bigger beer can ;) Great video as always.

Great Idea that you have to desoldering CPU sockets or reflow BGAs! Im Impress!

I think that a piece of fiberboard would be a much better insulator for the caps in the middel of the socket?

when you receive the new socket it comes with a cover. does covers support high Tempe turns and will help with the caps I. the middle I would recommend you to try to find a way to increase the board temperate a bit more so that the solder reflow better now the big question is if you are going to use solder paste or solder balls. either way I am guessing you're going to need a SMD template of that component to do so also find some kapton tape that is much more helpfull I have done a similar setup for a company I used to work using a heat gun , a broken infra red oven to heat the PCB and a microwave Control panel to set the time. I would start the infrared heating element first bring the PCB to a set Tempe ture then use the heat gun to reflow the component it has work great for me to reflow GPUs but I have never been brave enough to do a full replacement in this DIY matter thanks for the encouragement I must try this Lol

So know its like 5 years later but did you replace the socket and did it work?

good luck on the install your going to need it very difficult i must say"

Wow nice Job !

i really love your cavalier attitude but it worked yay lets hop you did not break anything else

this is probably wrong you must wear fasteners on the edges of the plate since you are heating it to high temperatures it tends to "bend" and damage or break other welds

Very good!

if you can control the air flow a little better ie slow it down a tad then this would of worked nice

Nice project! But how do you broke the pin?

Hi, Did you think this ever gonna work?

Im watching this video .. and at some point i didnt realize it .. but the pucker factor hit hard.......... youre about to BLAST this MDF (basically) with HIGH amounts of focused heat......... anyone else think NOW would be a good time to have fire/rescue on stand by?

You finally got there. You need to clean up those solder balls though.

i really hope you get that motherboard working

Nice work :P

Holy crap I have been trying to do this for so long....

This project is ok Thank you sir

cool vid. im now debating trying it on my msi h170 board i got kicking about. cant break it anymore like ya say. unless i burn house down ha :P

it could go waaay worse, so i'll call it success ;) but the next part will be more difficult. first of all i will suggest not to put there that central "protective" part. heat couldn't do much damage to those caps, but having that thing there will cause you much pain ! now it's time to clean PCB from the rest of solder. if you remove too much of it, with soldering wick for example, it might get tricky to make new solder balls attach to board. just go around with soldering iron and remove all excess solder. you could watch some of process on my channel if you like. i'm not doing it "professionally", but i was able to fix some boards when i need to ;)

Can you show us what you can do with vmware esxi?

You're the tech version of Paul Timberman skit from MadTV aka fuggin hilarious guy! I wish I could see you have a drink with Louis Rossman.

will this work on amd socket am3

OMG, you looks exactly like Bill Paxton!

They should make the motherboard socket removable, like a sliding upwards graphics card, that way we can put any other socket into the same motherboard and be more durable and upgradable

Broken to broken = broken2 (squared). Be careful, don't flux it up!

You know you can get a cheap Chinese solder rework station for not silly money. Also you need the proper tools to raise and lower the socket onto the board. The BGA pads don't look too bad but you should reball them (you need to really desolder with solder braid and lead solder). Also I think you pulled the socket too quickly (you need to let the solder flow for a moment or so but your on the right track before lifting it). Also when lifting it, you need to do it in a uniformed way.

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Any change to fix my motherboard with this 'solution'?

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Wow nice 😊👍🏻

Dont let Lois see that Video. He will be raging all night long

Does this mean that AMD's AM2, AM3, FM1, FM2 are better?

zip ties plastic zip ties are great or even duckt tape.

nice

Damn, this is crazy solution, poor mainboard :)

socket replacement is only 50rmb（7 USD） in china

solder the damn processor directly to the board.... why not... if you've already fucked the socket... i used a lot of processors this way in broken socket mbs, they're much easier to mount than the freaking socket plus you get some more stability and overclock performance due to the low loss in impendance of no socket.

maaan wtt the capacitors fly rsrs

Hmmm I’m now about to try this same stupid experiment lmao might have to make a video about what could possibly go wrong lol thanks for this though I know it’s doable lol

watched the other video after did it work after

Fucking miracle you didn’t rip pads off

Should've pulled that motherboard CMOS battery off the board.

Acttually that aluminum foil wwouldd trrap moree heat undder it which will heat up other components. Better to do it without it and just remove the ssocket upwards.

Such a waste of energy! You could have easily made some delicious fish or steak while melting the socket under that foil!

Shoulda got a better heat gun :o.

RIP there's a bent transistor

To solder that socket you need a BGA rework station.With heat gun you don't make a good job.Please,stop using flux from China,use real flux (www.tme.eu/en/details/rf800_100/fluxes/ag-termopasty/topnik-rf800-100ml/ ) cheep,good and it is made in Poland

All motherboards have components on both sides: Top and bottom. This man put the motherboard directly on the hard surface. This is a very bad practice!

Kids remove the smd capacitors prior to removing the socket and reinstall them after the new socket is installed. And dont use a heat gun.

You fucked up the capacitors man..................

the one liners were better

is possible fix this processor ? imgur.com/a/6ncmb

how to diy socket remove and never do that again cause this is horrible! no chance the mobo is still alive.

dont try it

omg

maniac

iam supprise you can get that from china in month.haha.don

wtf? hahaha