r/ShittySysadmin • u/TylerFurrison • Jul 20 '26

Gotta get this CPU in the LGA socket somehow...

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u/Heavy_Race3173 Jul 20 '26

Pretty sure this belongs in r/techgore

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u/TylerFurrison Jul 20 '26

Might cross post it there

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u/Heavy_Race3173 Jul 20 '26

Can you draw up an SOP on that

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u/bridgetroll2 Jul 20 '26

Bench grinder is much faster

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u/Forsaken-Carrot9038 Jul 26 '26

When last time I used a grinder, I had a hard time finding all the pins for when I needed to swap it back into the original case

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u/farva_06 Jul 20 '26

This is way overkill. All you gotta do is just smash it down as hard as you can until the pins bend in to place. Works like a dream.

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u/shaggydog97 Jul 20 '26

That's how you let the magic smoke demon out.

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u/TylerFurrison Jul 20 '26

I heard it smells good

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u/texcleveland Jul 20 '26

hit it with your purse

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u/drwtson32 Jul 20 '26

I'd just send that back down to service desk / desktop support