-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Since you've mentioned the remaining lands are also misaligned, I'd throw that CPU away. You currently risk burning out the multiphase regulator and/or attached peripherals (RAM, PCIe), depending on if the lands are now misaligned enough to put voltages where they don't belong.
Those lands are very robust; the only way I can think of to chip off one or two would be putting the CPU land-side up and dropping something on it. For more extensive damage, it's possible the CPU was repeatedly overheated at some point in the past as well. On 01/31/2018 12:57 PM, Daniel Kulesz via coreboot wrote: > Hi Taiidan, > >> I purchased a used g34 opteron off of fleabay (sold as working with no >> mention of this) and I noticed that it is missing some of the bits on >> the bottom and that most of them are crooked, I haven't tried it in my >> system yet and I am wondering should return it? or if there isn't any >> much risk of it damaging my (expensive kgpe-d16) motherboard and I >> should see if it works? >> I got it for half the usual price....guess I should have asked for photos. >> >> I noticed many CPU's sold on ebay have this issue (in those cases they >> mentioned it) but I can't understand how it happens, for instance I >> noticed a 6386 for sale where they mentioned that it was missing a few >> and because of that it doesn't work in a dual socket configuration. > > I have a few Opterons which have this issue and it seems to pretty common. I > assume that some "expert" put the CPU on a table before mounting it, and they > move it one the table - can't imaging how people manage to chop off the chips > otherwise. While some of these damaged CPUs seem to work just fine, I had > several which do not recognize more than 1-2 pcs of memory and, thus, would > not recommend buying one of these. > > Cheers, Daniel > - -- Timothy Pearson Raptor Engineering +1 (415) 727-8645 (direct line) +1 (512) 690-0200 (switchboard) https://www.raptorengineering.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJachYhAAoJEK+E3vEXDOFbJ1cH/0LBc4ZCkmeTuwW2HdXvI68r wb13u13IIrWr9KLSt0dRr6y2KC2M7eLwgOXeDgQAUgix+q5NaFh1Ff3usvSQAbOo sH8t4vKQ6y+48uD8phhgunO6Oht4pK1g2iCFmePuStoi8jy/TGco8OibRWUpN+gZ zeloVWRTr1Sbfw5N+cPvLa7qX86IdaOmVB460LtfWEd+IcBzKWYU7f9OpEU2uT/2 vA/Q7pJ4ZyZaz5Qz1n5cAgs8kymqRwY1Wel8z2QrKRQwPW2FecnFQjiDPKYDev6O VZe38GcxGKDcBSHyeADRVwg4Hb1L0WO6yMXNknPgbyzcGifKG+1RJaOWrzKOpJs= =Lu3P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
