On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:19:39 -0600, "Stinger"
wrote:

With his
permission, my son opened the case, pulled off the CPU cowling, and found
what he had suspected all along -- the P4 processor had been jammed in --
bending several pins that didn't go into the processor mount on the
motherboard.

Oh bull****. Your son didn't suspect that. Look at this a guy who
claims his son can tell the symptoms of bent pins without opening the
case.

No problem, Dell shipped another new unit (but you'd think
they'd check these things before they leave the factory, wouldn't you?).

Why didn't your wiz of a son just straighten the pins? Sounds to me
like he bent them while taking the CPU out of the socket.