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Originally Posted by SteamWake
The contacts in the socket are nothing more than hundreds if not thousands of 1very fine pieces of wire bent in kind of a question mark shape. There basically spring loaded to make contact with the pads on the underside of the CPU.
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Originally Posted by FIREWALL
I'm a bit confused here. Every mobo I've ever had, the socket had HOLES and the CPU had all the little pins.
The only way to straighten the pins on a CPU is with a very small coffee stiring straw or a WD40 straw.
An even better way is " DON'T BEND THE PINS " 
BTW what kind of mobo and cpu ? |
Yes sounds like the plastic shell of the CPU socket came off!! that's a write off!!
If the computer is running fine for a long period when this type of problem occurs then it is not likely to be the CPU/heatsink, unless you knocked it, even then the paste doesn't go brittle for over a year or so, just swivel it a little to re-seat it!
All I can say is good luck!
EDIT: It was probably cohesion that caused the heatsink to bond to the CPU, pulling up would hold with tons of pressure, would explain why the shell came off, in the future twist the heatsink from side to side till it comes adrift!