[SOLVED] Can bent pins lead to the failure of I/O

[NotthatCreative]

Throwing together some older components because I'm trying to save on cash. The motherboard is an MSI B85M-P33, which has an LGA 1150 socket. Two of the pins were bent; this caused one of my DIMM slots to stop working. I attempted a repair by bending the pins back into shape and though one is bent and the other has had its head broken off, the are no longer touching the adjacent pins and both DIMM slots work. Upon assembling the computer I found that both PS2 ports as well as all 6 USB ports on the motherboard are dead (the front panel JUSB ports are fine). Could this be a result of the pins or something else? The pins are AB33 (a ground) and AD33 (reserved). I am by no means an expert and may be completely off track.

 

[rgd1101]

yes it can. they have pin for a reason.