I seriously doubt there is a bent pin. If that were the case, inserting it to the motherboard would be impossible.
If you somehow managed to place the cpu in the wrong way, you wouldn't have any cores to do anything with - you would have broken the motherboard and cpu. Today's processors are etched so that they can only be placed in one way; the correct one.
Try setting the bios to optimized defaults then save.
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Edit - I just looked a little about the hardware. The Quad doesn't have pins. The motherboard socket does. You could pull the cpu out and make sure that the motherboard pins underneath are all nice and straight. If bent, get back to us here for advice before doing anything.