Hi all, been a while since I last visited here.

On topic; While I was plugging in the connector for the 2-port USB3 front panel that came with my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-X79S-UP5) to the USB3 internal header, one of the pins - the D1- pin, according to the manual - was bent. So my thought was that it won't be a fuss to bend it back; get a needle, whilst the whole power for the PC is off of course, and try to bend the pin back, but later, it just fell off. I was a bit disturbed by this but didn't think of it as a major issue.

And also, after I got the snapped pin I noticed the way it was bent. Apparently when I was rebuilding my PC (after the last motherboard set one of its core chokes off in sparks and decided to do an upgrade to this) that pin was bent out leaving the front panel connectors working but without one pin out of 20 in total. All of that time prior to the discovery, there weren't any issue when I used the front panel connector. It worked like the other 4 USB3 ports at the back.

So the question is; will it be safe to reuse the header; given that it worked last time, try to repair it (maybe not that possible basically) or just leave it out and/or replace the board? BTW I still got the receipt for this board; purchased it back in January at PB Tech Penrose.