i would never bend pins. Just unseat or disconnect each connector found, carefully, then just as carefully reconnect it.
Can't help you as to board ID, having not been inside one, but often you can find the amplifier output jacks and trace their wiring back to the board that must be the amplifier.
--Mac
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