I’m just going to smash this ****ing thing.

Can’t even get the dam cpu mount reinstalled.

Hi,
Maybe cut down on the 420 🙂

I purchased a Maximus XI Code locally but I had to leave it for about 2 months before I could use it for I had to go to hospital due to an illness. When I got to checkng out the mobo, it already had bent pins, so my guess is that the shop had a returned mobo that they then sold me, or someone from the store used it and bent the pins, because non one else touched that board. Knowing i had little hope proving my case to the shop, or to ASUS [who's guarantee does not include physical damage to the mobo especially the CPU socket] AND due to the time lag of some 3 months i decided to fix the bent pins myself.

I used a large blunt sewing needle and a USB microscope including a 10 X jeweler's magnifying eyepiece and AFTER checking out a few youtube videos on how to fix bent pins, i successfully fixed the pins. The board would not boot before this fix, but it works fine now.

So i'd suggest to give it a shot, for you have nothing to lose, really.

I'm not sure how you're going to clean out the liquid metal? Actually you could use a suction tube that you could put together using a vacuum cleaner e.g. I've made one in the past by taping a length of a 1/2 inch diameter flexible clear plastic tubing to the opening of a vacuum cleaner hose. I first packed the vacuum cleaner tube with a piece of cotton material while holding the clear tube in the opening of the vacuum cleaner tube, so that the clear tube is held in place nice and snug. Then I used sticky tape to secure the clear tube in place.

But you need to be very careful not to damage more pins. Otherwise it will mean you need to replace the LGA socket if you can not get the LM removed from deep within the pins, because it's conductive, if the LM bridges across more than one pin, it will short out those pins.