do I need a new mobo?

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Trying to keep this short.

The other day I took my PC apart re pasted my CPU and everything.

Got a few blue screen error (Clock_watchdog_error) or something. I read it might be CPU heat related. Figured I didn't put enough paste, or too much, on. So I took the cooler off and bumped the CPU out of the tray when cleaning it off.

Put everything back together and when I turned it on. No display or usb devices connected. And my mobile q code said 55. This is "no memory detected" so I reseated and memOk my PC a few times still nothing.

Looking further said to reseat cpu too. This is where I discovered a mobile pin was bent. So I bent it back in place after fiddling for ages. But now I think it "fell into" the mobile socket? I tried taking a good photo but being this small it's as best as I could get. (Trying to figure out how to upload images will repost with it once I figure that out)
 

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Thank you the reply, but now I have a new question. I decided to put my PC back together after fiddling around with it and now my PC turns on like normal. Could you explain (if possible) how thats possible, and are there any threats to my PC running with the mobo like the way it is now.
 
as long as the damaged pin are able to make contact with the cpu, it will work.

however, there are few issues. since there are known damage on the pin, anyvibration may cause the pin to loose contact.
you don't want that,

in simple terms, a contact on cpu does 1 of 3 following things:

its a reserved pin, no data no power so doesn't affect anything (unlikely, since you are having issue in the beginning)
it's a signal pin, it can cause some weird behavior in your PC, like random crashes.
it's a power pin, this is by far the worst case, it might cause an arc and fry your cpu and mobo socket,
 

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Okay so it doesn't seem to be a reserved pin. Because I would get a bsod error every once in awhile whilst playing a game. And when I resat the CPU the PC would turn on but I'd get a "no memory detected" q code. After reseating my ram several times And then my CPU, and fiddling with that pin. The PC starts with no q code or errors. I have all 16gb of my ram detected. So it could be the last option. Which means I should keep an eye on my CPU temp and voltage?