I recently unbent some pins on my motherboard (stray finger) on my Z97 black edition gigabyte and it seems to be working again. I did the same for my Asrock Anniversary Z97, which was a bit heavier damage but it boots up fine now. My question is am I risking any permanent damage later down the road or is it like if it boots up, it's 100% fine? I'm already gone through a used PSU blowing up on me and frying 3 of my hard drives. The pins don't reflect the light uniformly like an untouched motherboard but the tip of the pins look pretty close to their original positions, which is why I think it worked. It's just that the unbent pins might not be in their perfect original forms.