How to DIY LGA1150 CPU Socket Replacement - 404 

Even though it didn't work as planned, i'm glad you posted the videos of the process.

this is much more detailed than the other tutorials. thank you so much!

I just love your channel. You deal with high tech stuff, just like me. I'm an infrastructure analyst and electronics enthusiast. I have a Z800 mb with the 2nd cpu socket with broken pins ( actually, I broke the pins trying to fix/straightening them ). But the 1st cpu is working perfectly, so, I'll buy the socket from chine and a few 775 sockets to practise with other dead boards before messing with the Z800 one. Good luck with the next one!

episode 404 not found also you have done something epic here!

Just saw your video and I can say that I am really impressed! You didn’t fix it but trying and honesty counts, at least it’s a great start! Subscribed and thumbs up, keep up with good work! Greets from Serbia

It's always a good idea to check the data sheet to identify what pins are f**ked, as many are duplicated i.e. 0V and Vcc and connected internally. If so, no worries, just ensure they are not shorted.

Well you showed the issues others may have aswell which might now be avoided so counts as experience and lessons learned. Nice video so keep them coming. Thanks

That's great way to do the CPU socket replacement by yourself. You should try it with some other motherboard, that have only bent pins and no other problems.

I think I'm addicted to this RU-vid channel :o

Oh man, I was hoping to see it working. I will be doing this soon too, I hope I get better results (though I doubt it, I'm terrible at soldering work).

got this HP off my buddy, said it didn't work, figured i could salvage something off it. fans spin, but no POST, no beeps. tried messin' with jumpers, pulling RAM, different PSUs, etc nothing works. someone suggested breadboard it. while stripping mb i pull the heat sink off, cpu is i5-3450. i'm thinkin' aye pretty nice for free. pull cpu from socket to check it out. EVERY SINGLE fuckin' pin is sheered off in the socket, half are bent one way, half are bent the other way. was going to buy another cpu and replace the socket, but after watching this, that's waaay to much dickin' around to maybe successfully salvage a shitty HP board. thanks for video, saved me some time and probably a lot of frustration.

I love the way you said 'If I didn't fug it up'

Even if you didn't succeed, you learned a lot, and even trying proved your guts.

you need a microscope camera for like those intense zoom, that micro lense though is great I love it

first of all when desoldering and surface mount components you cannot pry up on the component otherwise you'll tear the traces and pads off the board. when cleaning the solder off pads use a good amount of heat, some flux and the copper mesh to slowly go over all the pads. keep moving the iron to a clean spot on the copper mesh to absorb all the left over solder. use Flux remover spray to clean up your work afterwards. you can also use 99.9% electronic alcohol. this type of repair work is very hard to do unless you have the proper equipment and experience.

So Nice, you have posted that Video on my 18th Birthday!!! :) I had my Birthday Yesterday, and i couldn't watch this video, but i watch it know, and i Like it Very much! Sorry for my little bit Bad English, i am from Germany :)

That was pretty obvious that first try will not go well, but it looks like with little practice, it's possible to do it at home, you almost did it on first try, that's actually very good result.

you should have added leaded solder before trying to wick all the solder off to make the wicking easier

you should at least turn it on before throwing it in the garbage, there are a lot of redundant power pins on that socket

man i love the video. some daring work u done here. btw did u test it after the socket replacement?? and if so, did it work?? i wanna know .-. anyways. keep up the good work :)

for a DIY setup, it could be better to just replace the individual broken pins. The only thing you need is a hot air solder, well and a couple of pliers small enough to be able to remove the broken pins and install the replacement pins. The good thing with a hot air soldering station is that you can set the exact temperature you need for it in order to make sure you will not screw something like melting the plastic. Also, if you replace the entire socket there is a good chance than some of the solder balls may not do propper contact with the board and as a result, the cpu will not get all it's pins properly connected to the motherboard which would result on an unstable and erratic system.

Hello, how are you, I have seen your videos and they seem excellent, you have done a very good job, I have a motherboard that has damaged pins and I would like you to fix my motherboard, I will not be able to send it to you for now, since I do not have silver, but someday I'll get in touch with you.

Good job man. Why didn't you test it? It should have worked probably.

try it! some pin are NC (not connected) or may be one of several redundant ground of vcc pins...

How much would it cost to fix a damaged LGA1155 socket? I get 5 beeps from the speaker, which means the processor is damaged. I replaced it and continue to get the 5 beeps. It booted one time, but that was it.

as an desoldering wire you can use a shield from coaxial cable, and use isoprophyl alcochol instead of acetone, isoprophyl evaporates entirely

You have to be really careful of the traces on the motherboard and not just the ones on the top layer. Boards can be up to 8 layers so its really easy to damage them with heat. Scott

Hello, i got the same problem do you think i can just using the pistol heater for take off the socket. Or i must have a station of heater under the motherboard too?

Time for easily replaceable modular sockets.

great video, learned a few things. I wish you had put in the processor and gave it a try. Not all pins are required. I have one question though. Why do you require heat at the bottom of the motherboard when the place of action is on top of the motherboard where the soldering flux is?

Sorry to see you broke it, life is full of risks. However life without risk is boring. Have a great day!

Really enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing.

Hello great video. But i have one question: Why Pins are bent. This is because a cooler pressure installation, cleaning processor, or when instal the processor? Thank you for your knowledge

hei mate. are your still there? well i watched your video today. and this is some inspiration for me to make some tool like this. So after 4years. Did you try replace another socket? and how its going? is working on the second attemp?

I need to replace the cpu socket on my motherboard. Several broken pins but idk where to even begin. Probably better to just throw it away and save for a new one.

Loosing one pin is not death sentence.

Soooo I gave it a go lol problems I encountered were temperature underneath the board I went with a 2000w heater but only got up to 130c one of the things I noticed was the board started to sag slightly I got the old socket off but the board I think warped slightly I cleaned up the pads and all ent really well However when it came to replacing the socket was a different story long story short not enough flux and the board had warped I could see it wasn’t making contact in the centre of the socket As I was paying too much attention to the underneath I didn’t notice the pins and top side had gone south so I pulled the socket off again need to add more support to stop the sagging And then try again I have a video I might just put on anyway

Hey I have a question. I know I'm late but do you need the heating element to take off the old BGA/socket or is it optional? Also would a simple cheap heater from a store work or is it a specific thing?

FACT: There are 1,150 pins on the socket. Hence the name LGA1150. LGA 2011 has 2,011 pins as per its socket name.

Can you make a diy solar panel project then use it to run a small server? That would be cool

Good video in home plan. Have you tried the Asus motherboard? Thanks for your answer.

It would have been much better to learn on scrap boards rather than a state of the art board that you would like to keep. I bet it's not that easy for people that rework those boards all day with proper equipment to change those sockets.

I see it looks like he made a DIY board heater out of a heating element for a clothes dryer. Which is genius. What I don't see is how it is powered, and would love to know.

Why are you trying to fix a board you've not taken proper ESD precautions with? You're undoing the work you do.

Is LGA 1150 Stencil and LGA 1150 socket the same thing? Please help

if I have a 1150 socket, which they barely seem to sell cpu's for on the market anymore, what is a cheaper and easier solution to upgrade? or can I use higher numbers? Im not so good with the core and thread configurations.

Not all pins are used, check out the pin out for the cpu that you will be trying. In fact you may have needlessly removed the old socket, yes it is true. Where I used to work we would recover many cpu socket problems if a pin had broken. Just try it and see... NEXT TIME

"Crazy"! :D Nice work! :)

Is that bottom heater very necessary? if i have to this do i then have to buy it? Thanks.

i have lga 1150 socket with broken or bent pins, can broken pins be repaired? what's the most suitable action , i should take, replace the socket, fix the pins(if can) , buy a new board?

Hi, just wondering, why you dont change manually the broken pin using the pins from the new lga socket? could this be a bad idea? cause i watched videos wheres people fixeds theirs motherboard in this way.

You were very close, next time use a lower temp on your iron and DON'T please don't clean those pads to much, perfection sometimes comes back at you and bites, those pads are very very fragile they don't like to much heat, at 5:20 you could just fixed those bridged pins on the top right corner and that would be fine, but you can't learn without experince so next time you know, don't set the iron to hot, move slow, don't be a perfectionist and the most important thing be 100% carefull with the wick use a small piece of wick instead of the whole wick and move it with the iron not by hand

Would it be possible to upgrade an lga 1155 socket to a 1150 one?

Wait, how DID they solder those capacitors on the other side of the board? Come to think of it, the board gets populated on one side, rolls on a rail into an oven, gets reflow-soldered, gets flipped over, gets populated on the other side, goes on rails into the oven again all the way to the melting temperature... the back side capacitors should have fallen off when they made it! Well, apparently they don't, because they glue the first side components down first. A repairman said it's like often a red dot or so under them. I expect that back side should be first side because there's fewer components on it.

sometimes you have to break a few before you can get good at it. i've torn pads off boards before. it would of only been a $0.10 repair. it was worth a shot just to learn how not to do it next time. lol the heat and dragging the wick across the board probably done it in.

i was cringing with how hard you seemed to have been scrubbing. I wonder if thats what is wrong with my z87m board. Just loops or occasionally stops on 67. Which is cpu related. Already ruled out cpu, ram, and bios chip.

I was working in electronic shop ,normally they use alcohol 100 percent :)

next time try and cover the capacitors with aluminum foil folded a few times

need to be gentle when cleaning to avoid delaminating the fine wires from the motherboard jointing junctions and you needed to watch other youtubers on how they clear away the old solder material and makes the deballing area smoother and easier to clean the excess dried burnt Flux away

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Good video, thanks,,,

Sorry for my friend, translator error haha, I would like to know what material used if possible, thank you !!

Is this what they call "re-balling"?

I really enjoyed your show :D , Tumbs up from me :D

can i replace my computer socket with heat gun

Qual seria que o líquido que você passa para remover a solda?

How to do bga microelectronics with plumbing soldering iron and paint removal heat gun ;D

please tell me how to made preheater

i need help with my asus sabertooth x79 can you try it on themat board that socket needs replacing

and that's works ? did you test it ?

Works for me!

Ha! Morten can u show how to make 440V AC? Nice vids btw👍

you aren’t supposed to remove the tin balls that are already on the board?

Sweet video... I don't think you fucked it up because you provided help for people who maybe wanna try this in the future, and until u put a new processor and ram in it we don't know if it really doesn't work!

and the temperature should be 250-260 C for it to solder back

You should try it anyway!!!

love the video, i have a H170 Gaming 3 motherboard(brand new) with a socket i destroyed (the pins) when i was drunk, If you want to try to fix this one

Oh well. That was a really good try, but that was A LOT of pins to try to re-solder. Better luck next time!

What is the use the battery in the proces?

Nice try Sir. Better luck next time :)

it will never be seated properly with your eye alingment and for sure it will not slide because it is too heavy and has legs beneath it to support it . So it is permantly damaged ...... with destruction instructions.......

good

Did you even tried a CPU on the new socket?

Boy you were out of your depth, huh? XD A good effort, and I hope the next one goes better, but with tasks this tricky, a bit more research would have improved your chances a lot. If you want to learn more about repair like this I would recommend Louis Rosmann here on youtube.

Some of you guy see, a guy like this doing so good work, and all you come up with stupid comments, You guys can't leave with some one when is better then you. Just accepted there is a guy better then you, and is My PlayHouse ..

I have a nice brand new motherboard worth 200$ with a broken pin. Do you want it to fix it?

+1 but I guess you need +10 motherboards to make a +1 working PC. Next time you better use a lot of stunt motherboards to show how clever you are :-) Maybe you should try with a 8-bit CPU with less pins next times :-)

Flux flux flux, you need lots of flux... the liquid type. It takes some skill for success in this application. Too much heat, not enough heat, being to aggressive or not aggressive enough, heating too long or not long enough all matters. Adding low temp leaded soldier to these type of connections is critical in removing old soldier paste, if not you risk ruining the copper tracings... it's a mission critical job for applying and cleanup.

Work ???

those cpu sockets use whole blocks of pins for power and ground. if you have only one pin broken you maybe lucky and is a redundant one. For example this is the 1155/1156 diagram www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?288886-Haswell-1150-motherboard-pin-diagram if its a control/data line going to dram module then you have not installed then again it maybe fine

Is not working

Solder not Lead/Tin..

thanks for the vid mort, haha small balls i chuckled at that

If it doesn't work you can always make it into a low voltage high amp power supply (mod the VRM :D ).

its work ?

you shouldn’t have used so much friction on the pins that’s what i did with the socket that’s why i’m here :/

I would put there celeron and try anyway.

Please try if it work pleaaaaaaase?!?!

This was satire joke right? 2000watt heat gun? acetone ? Seemingly no experience soldering at all and jumping right to BGA reworking of a modern cpu socket? Clean flux with iso or 99% rubbing alc get acetone away from motherboard use solder wick to clean pads with soldering iron with generous amounts of flux on the pads you are cleaning keep the heat gun away from your board that thing could melt your battery, don't charge and use that battery like that at the same time and don't connect a powered charger to the battery, turn it on after making the connections precisely preheat the board evenly to a very specific temp and you need a hot air station that can be set so you don't melt anything or exceed the min temp it takes to melt the solder, use a flux paste with solder bits in it when you want to solder the new socket in, clean smooth first then alc then flux paste solder then clean again ensure only a little bit a solder is on each pad then clean again add more flux over it put down socket heat to just what you need to melt solder and have it that hot for a short a time as needed then as you are removing heat ensure not to bump the board and don't touch any surface complainants as they might all be floating on molten solder but cool down slowly and evenly so that expansion and contraction stresses in the materials are not drastic and fracturing the thing from a cold spot right next to a 250c spot For pre heating and cooling down you should use a air system that blows over the whole board gently even precise heat not a electric stove thing made with a lead acid bat.. and after all that probably still screwed up as a real repair would use a machine that heats removes uses a stencil for the pads places new part and then cools all automated and you just set the settings and put the part in and it does everything you don't touch it.

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