Ok techies, listen up. I fucked up this mobo (MSI A170 GAMI

>Gaming pro
You deserve breaking it

>>1005010
Pic of damaged socket? I'm not really sure how this is possible. I actually fucked up in a similar way, but I fucked the pins on the CPU. I sat there for 3 HOURS with a knife and plastic flat edge straightening pins. It worked.

>>1005031
Modern processors are LGA, meaning that the bottom of the CPU is just pads, and the "socket" is made up of over 900 pogo-pins.

They ship with a plastic fake CPU to stop you damaging them, but you can still do it if you do something really retarded like put the CPU in at an angle and then clamp it down anyway.

Jesus, what part of zero insertion force don't you understand? If you're too retarded to install a CPU, do you really want to burn down your house with a mis-wired mobo attached to your wall?

>>1005010
The only thing I can think of is to cut the traces around the LEDs so you can wire them up, but these boards are like 16 layers thick so it would be pretty hard to make sure you were cutting the right/all traces to prevent a short circuit...my advice would be to just drill an LED sized hole in the board itself and stick some LED's through the board itself. Even if the existing LED's are SMT, I would still probably do this instead of using the actual LED's on the actual board.

>>1005043
Except the new Intel CPUs aren't ZIFs, they're LGA to shift the cost from them to the mobo manufacturers.