Can I FIX this $10,000 CPU?? #Helpful Post

now this isn't something that I wanted

to do it's more the kind of thing that

I'm being forced to do so this right

here is one of the Xeon Platinum 8180

$10,000 processors from our six

workstations one cpu project and I

dropped it I didn't realize it was

broken at the time but I knocked it off

the desk and a cursory look at it showed

me that it was probably okay and it

booted in the motherboard that is until

I realized one of the memory channels

wasn't working and the CPU had a bloomin

dent in the side of it so out of

desperation I emailed my good friend

Stephen Burke over at gamers Nexus to

ask him what to do and he said well

here's something you could try and if it

doesn't work well at least you'll get a

bunch of views on YouTube while you're

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but the oh there it is oh my god how am

I gonna get this out so before I show

you guys how I plan to repair this very

expensive and very damaged CPU I've got

to get my test bench prepped to even

show you guys what exactly is the

problem with it right now because the

thing does actually work at least the

last time that I tried it mostly sort of

so first we're going to need a different

motherboard we're gonna need one that

uses the LGA 3647 socket and this one

hopefully still works

someone didn't put it away properly and

there's no socket cover on it it

actually does look ok so we're gonna go

ahead and throw this on the bench and

then we will go from there one small

step that I sort of missed a little bit

here this one sure

no what's one that's right sure wait yes

good cool ok ah all right

look wait what what the hell oh crap

alright that wasn't so hard look at that

it slides right down the heatsink fins

and these two screws are what actually

put enough pressure on the CPU in the

socket to ensure that all those contact

pads are making contact with all the

pins inside so you know what we're gonna

start with just one stick in dim slot a1

and see if we can even get that to go

because I haven't tested this since the

last time I tested it let's go over here

Oh

it's attented if this doesn't do

anything there's kind of a chance we

have no video at all right now so I'm

legitimately very nervous I can't

remember where it is

well no it's like got to be on here

somewhere there it is what what all

right all right all right I get it the

working theory right now because we

can't see any physical damage on the

outside is that somewhere in here

something kind of lifted away so I

figure if I put some glue in there and

clamp it down maybe it'll stick together

well enough that it'll work again

bombs wood stone metal ceramic foam

glass and more this is this falls

squarely in the end more category so

we're gonna use this finishing nail

because we didn't find anything else

lying around we are going to kind of jam

it in there this is really stupid this

is not going to work I think the best

thing that can happen at this point is

for this video to never see the light of

day and trust me this hurts me at least

as much as it hurts you yep you guys

bought it right this is what's happening

hold on

that's just advanced no I'm good just

hold still little seek - you promise

this won't hurt a bit

okay oh boy well let's leave that for a

little bit

how long does gorilla glee want to set

one to two hours

we don't have one to two hours so we'll

give it a little bit here okay so here

we go

impossible to say if that's gonna make

any difference at least until we install

it everything we do from here on out

David is just to satisfy our own

curiosity because there's no video here

all right I'm not even gonna bother

putting the fan on the CPU because like

it's not gonna heat up if it doesn't

turn on just for fun I'm gonna pull the

CMOS battery really you don't think any

of this is gonna get me anywhere I'm

gonna try black memory slot this time

knowing fully well that this isn't going

to work I'm going to try another board

hopefully you let me down it's like that

pure optimism that's keeping me going

right now here I go again putting this

thing here now this board is not even

like close to fitting on this test bench

it's not quite as good fries this wasn't

completely just a waste of my time I

wouldn't be so frustrated right now I

don't know I mean we've come this far we

might as well put another CPU on the

other side maybe this is a dual socket

board that doesn't boot with just one

CPU I don't know

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shattered hopes and dreams today after

you left I thought Jake was using this

with unread before and he might have set

it up so that the onboard video is the

default and so I went and grabbed a VGA

monitor and we posted its posted this

works I don't have to go crawling back

to Intel asking for another one to

finish six workstations one CPU I wasn't

recording audio I'm sorry no audio no

well camera is going but it's okay

everything looks normal well uh we don't

know yet because remember it already

worked at one point with five RAM

channels so I've got to load it up Jake

can I have the other RAM by any chance

thank you I don't know if I deserve a

medal or like a swift kick in the ass

it's kind of hard to get this stick in

here because of the like angle of this

what is going on like everything about

this whole setup is so jank what do you

want Colton I'm trying to find out if I

have to spend 10 grand replacing this

thing or not call somebody yeah thanks

did you try unplugging it and plugging

it back in what is it doing hurry up can

I see the post screen please

raise it it works but it only works

about the same as before so you can see

here we've got 327 gigs of ram instead

of 364 so the good news is we are booted

seemingly stabili into our OS here with

all 56 of our CPU cores detected and

well you know eleven-twelfths of our

memory also detected but the bad news is

that our attempt to fix the broken

memory channel did not in fact succeed

so hopefully if nothing else this was an

entertaining run through some of the

stuff that we would normally do behind

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I'm like really disappointed that it

doesn't work or any better but on the

other hand I'm glad it still works at

all

maybe let me know in the comments below

or whatever should we just go ahead with

five channel memory or should we like

pony up and get a new one I really don't

want to