Last time I had abent pin, it was on a processor, P133 way back when, and it was giving me fits on going into the socket.
So I flipped the processor over and checked out the pins.
A .5mm lead mechanical pencil nib works great at straightening bent processor pins.
But it was worth a laugh as I had just pulled the processor out of the socket and set it on the foam pad.
Never dawned on me to check the ins after removal despite the thing coming out of the socket hard.
this pin is bent all to sh!t
*looking away innocently*
one of, like, a gazillion pins on the connector, all densely packed, and ONLY ONE shows any damage, and it is bent into a fraking PRETZEL
poltergeists, mannnn...