I was 18, and bored, so i took my Pentium 1 apart.
When i tried to put the CPU back in, i forgot to lift up the little lever on the motherboard first... I was wondering why the CPU was finding it really difficult to go in, so i pushed down on it as hard as i could - causing the CPU to slip, and bent almost all of the pins on the CPU at a 90 degree angle.
I spent the next few hours carefully straightening them all back with a pair of tweezers!
Amazingly, it worked perfectly..
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wow, someone else thinks like me :) Read Stephen Baxters Manifold series? It's all beginning to work out..
I was 18, and bored, so i took my Pentium 1 apart. When i tried to put the CPU back in, i forgot to lift up the little lever on the motherboard first... I was wondering why the CPU was finding it really difficult to go in, so i pushed down on it as hard as i could - causing the CPU to slip, and bent almost all of the pins on the CPU at a 90 degree angle. I spent the next few hours carefully straightening them all back with a pair of tweezers! Amazingly, it worked perfectly..