I don't feel so bad about not knowing about the socket 775 pin thing...

Mentioned previously, we had a disruption in what should have been a trivial mainboard replacement in a friend's PC.

The core of the problem is that I let him purchase the wrong processor for the mainboard we'd selected. That's on me.

The surprise we got was that the socket 775 chip we got didn't have any pins on it! I thought "what a bizarre miss for the plant." We took the chip back, and the fella at the return counter was surprised. He went in the back to get a replacement, only to return as embarrassed as I that he didn't know. It was then we realized my mistake. We got a new mobo to match the chip; they don't allow returns on chips but do on boards. Installation followed smoothly, and then the trouble getting his install of Windows XP Home to work...already discussed.

Earlier we went to dinner with another uber-tech guy, and he had also not had any exposure to information leading him to believe that the chips didn't have pins.

I'm not as embarrassed at not knowing about the pins any more.

I'm still embarrassed that I couldn't read 754 on one box and 775 on another...