Wounded CPU - Ressurection?

[Guest_imported]

I have a Pentium Pro Socket 7 CPU (200mhz), and one of its pins are broken off. It's been a while on deciding if I should heat it back on, or is there another way I can repair it?

Xiun

 

[DaveGoTech]

If you're good at delicate work, you can certainly try to solder a replacement pin.

 

[cwpaul]

A broken pin may be re-soldered, if you are good and patient beyond nominal human endurance. If the specific pin is one of the many ground pins, you may probably get away without the pin. You can check out

http://www.sandpile.org

for your specific CPU's parameters & pinout (as well as

http://www.intel.com).

NOTE: The probability of damaging your CPU exists if you run it without the pin.

Saying that, the only test for this would be to plug the processor in and run the system (also just use a bootable floppy only (no hard drive and minimal peripherals) to reduce your risk profile). If it works to your system's satisfaction- good. Else you can either repair it and invest a significant portion of your time and effort on a possibly futile effort (too much heat for too long may damage the processor) OR you could just buy another used P200 (generally less than $50-$75us w/shipping) or equivalent.

Rather than risk corrupting files and wasting time and effort --- I suggest the "Buy a new cpu" option to save on time and worry.

cwpaul



Conrad W. Paul
cwpaul@syd.eastlink.ca
Creative Solutions to Challenging Problems

 

[swayda]

Hi.
A pentium 233 sells for about $30, a 200 for about $20.
Is it really worth your time? Don Swayser
swayser@optonline.net

 

[Karl Blessing]

he said Pentium Pro, and from my knowledge, thats Socket8 not Socket7 ( you can get pentium pros from computersurplusoutlet.com for about 20$ for one with 256K ondie cache, about 30$ for one with 512K ondie)

Pentium pro differed from regular pentiums at the time, because they were the first pents (and they look large too) to have built in cache, of 256K, 512K, and 1Meg, making them the optimal choice for Servers, and workstations at the time, I have a Dual pentium pro board, which I am not using, the two Pent Pro 200Mhtz I have, may need replacing since I cant get video to show up when booting up. But all in all to replace both chips and get new heatsink and fans, would cost me around 60$ from them, they are the only ones I know of that are selling Pentium pros. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}