I’m going to try to condense this long story into a relatively short one.

I bought a $300 motherboard from NewEgg. Installed it and the Power Supply did something nutty to it. It wouldn’t boot, so I sent the board back to NewEgg. NewEgg said it was voided warranty because it had bent CPU pins. I had to buy a new board, which I bought from Fry’s.

I installed the new board from Fry’s – it booted fine, except there was RAM missing. I found a bent pin and I bent it back into shape and everything seems to be working.

Got the damaged Motherboard back in the mail… noticed a couple bent cpu pins… so I carefully bent them back.

I called ASUS (which is pronounced ASOUS… weird… considering their name came from the last four letters of Pegasus) and I got an RMA from them. So I’m going to send the board back to the manufacturer and see if they’ll give me a new one.

Which I intend to sell…

But before I do that, I took some pictures. I wonder if they’ll say I have bent pins…. There’s a shadow in the middle of the bottom half – but I think the pin itself is fine.

Right Click on the pic, and select “Open with New Window”  to see the picture in all it’s 6.3 megapixel glory.

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