I've got a tiny motherboard with a Pentium G3240 in it, but the 1st RAM slot doesn't work.
Little did I know what was to come...
Content Warning: the story contains foul language, and the images contain tech gore.
Little did I know what was to come...
Content Warning: the story contains foul language, and the images contain tech gore.
The story
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[17:21]Sono: well, I didn't tell you about the "new" "PC" I got yet
[17:23]Sono:
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[17:24]Sono: it's so tiny, micro-ATX
[17:25]Sono: I've put my fastest DDR3 RAM into it, connected up that Samsung SSD to the 6GB/s port (I've found a good shielded cable which can actually do it, not just 3GB/s), and it runs soooooooooo snappy
[17:26]Sono: slightly tweaked the RAM timings, as the BIOS uses the wrong timings, and holy shit
[17:26]Sono: now I get what you've been saying
[17:26]Sono: I have never seen Windows this snappy
[17:26]Sono: like, never, any Windows version
[17:27]Sono: and that SSD has 22H2 installed on it
[17:27]Sono: AND IT IS FUCKING SNAPPY
[17:27]Sono: like, the E key did not even bottom out on my keyboard, and the explorer window is already animating in
[17:28]Sono: (using WIN+E to open a new explorer window)
[17:30]Sono: for reference, the RAM in my current laptop runs at 1333MHz, DDR4, cl19, and the RAM on that tiny board runs at 666MHz, DDR3, cl9
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[17:31]Sono: the story only goes downhill from here ;-;
[17:31]Sono: I've saved this motherboard from being thrown out
[17:31]Sono: I did not know at the time why
[17:32]Sono: I've accidentally damaged the 1st RAM slot during shipping, so only the 2nd slot worked
[17:33]Sono: I've fixed the 1st RAM slot (even beeped it out with a multimeter), even checked the pins on the mobo if they were cracked, but it's perfectly pristine and intact
[17:33]Sono: I was stumped, I even cleaned the slot fully, removed all fluff, and still nothing
[17:33]Sono: welp
[17:34]Sono: I've looked up the type of CPU socket this mobo uses
[17:34]Sono: > LGA1150
[17:34]Sono: > LGA
[17:34]Sono: and then it hit me
[17:34]Sono: "the pins are on the mobo, not the CPU"
[17:34]Sono: my worries turned true when I removed the CPU from the socket...
[17:34]Sono: true horror story
[17:35]Sono: there was a piece of moldy breadcrumb solidified rock-hard into the top-right corner of the socket
[17:35]Sono: whatever dumbfuck put the CPU into the slot also erased a few pins as well
[17:37]Sono: I've also managed to remove 3 more pins while trying to restore the pin stack, although 2 of them were most likely already broken off, and the 3rd one my hand slipped, and broke it off myself
[17:37]Sono: making it 10 missing pins
[17:37]Sono: and I've traced them, 3 of them go into the 1st slot 😭
[17:37]Sono: so I won't be gaming on this puppy
[17:38]Sono: but still good enough for a server, it's really quietImages
