A friend of mine decided to thoroughly examine his computer to learn how it works. He removed his p4 processor to look at the bottom, he put it back incorrectly bending 2 pins, when he tried to fix them they broke off. I was wondering if the processor would still work if these 2 pins were completely removed.
Odds of that processor working < 1%
It’s impossible to say really without knowing which pins broke off and then studying the datasheets but those pins were there for a reason.
Hmm. Potentially a somewhat expensive learning experience there.
I’ve found a really basic pinout here… (see page 32).
If the two happened to just be supplying power, depending on how the die is designed it might work fine. If it’s part of anything else, outlook not so good.
Generally speaking, if it would work properly without the pins, they’d never have been there in the first place.
That might not always be true though; I suppose it is possible that the pin layout might include unconnected pins that are there simply because of the geometry of the layout.
But I think it’s pretty likely that the processor won’t work.
How is it possible to bend the pins anyway? Pretty much every motherboard since the days of the 486 has a ZIF socket for the processor.
Simplist thing to do of course is for your “friend” to plug it in and try it. The odds are slim he’ll damage the computer or the data on his hard drive. Note that “slim” does not mean 0%.
If the broken pins are ground pins then it might work normally; if the pins are memory address pins then it’ll work until it comes to use those pins (this happenned to me with a P-90). Otherwise it might simply not work or fail in wierd and interesting ways, including corrupting his data. Try sending a photo of the chip to Intel and asking them.