this build is stressing me out

[mcrawford1990]

Okay, I'm broke so I had to buy parts from paycheck to paycheck, finally got what I needed to make a build and pieced it together. First was the motherboard I bought in January a maximus vi hero. Then I got the corsair vengeance 1800 ram with 2 x 8gb stocks, a ssd, 2tb hdd, storm trooper case, a 750w psu and i put a old Radeon 7770 in until I get the cash for my Nvidia 780 6gb.

Okay to start out this was gonna be my big build, did a couple be for but this is the one I'm going all out in, I got a I 80 psu water cooler. Got the double zeros on the quod with the cpu, read up and because I had a 4790k I had to buy a cheap pentium that wirked with the current bios. Put it in and it did the same thing, so I remove the I 80 put the stock cooler stuff back in and it solved the cpu light problem. But the dram and code 55 came up now, I make sure the ram is properly seated, nothing. Went to my other build and put a single 1600mhz stick in to see if it was just because of the frequency, nothing, tried using the mem okay. Still nothing, i came on here and searched for people with similar problems, found i might have over tightened the screws on the cpu clip, so i slightly untightened(they werent tight in the first place because this wasnt my first rodeo but i thought what the heck), still no posting. I'm close to just buying the hero vii.

[Chino]

Take your motherboard out of the case and put it on top of the box that it came in. With your CPU, stock heatsink and one stick of RAM in the DIMM_A1 slot, connect the 24 pin and 8 pin power cables. Power on your motheboard. What do you see on the DEBUG LED?

[mcrawford1990]

still saying 55

[Chino]

The next step is to remove your CPU and inspect the socket for any bent or missing pins.

[mcrawford1990]

darn, there goes $200+. well, i guess it can be used as a cautionary tale to other newbies
No matter how many times you have to do it, always put the cpu in carefully

[NemesisChild]

Man that's a bummer, nearly impossible to straighten all of those pins out.
It can be done, but the odds are stacked against it being successful.

Do you know a good jeweler?

[mcrawford1990]

afraid not, it was my first time with these new intel chips, up until this build all my stuff was amd. and they just fall into place if you have it lined up
right.

It slipped once when i put it in but it wasn't far so i didn't think anything about it.

[Chino]

It can be fixed if you have a lot of patience and a steady hand. Just use a magnifying glass and a toothpick.

[YouWhat]

Have you tried to see if you can RMA it? call the place where you got it from and see (if it comes to it, tell em a little white lie, it came like it)