Hey everyone, I noticed some scratch marks around the screw holes of my CPU cooler that expose the copper on my motherboard. I'm worried this might mean my motherboard is damaged. I have an MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX. After doing some troubleshooting, the EZ Debug LED for the processor lights up, but the processor itself looks fine. Does this mean my motherboard is broken? Here's a link to the image of the scratches: https://imgur.com/a/XpFKEsI.
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You should be fine! As long as the scratch didn’t damage the pathways on the PCB, it shouldn’t brick your motherboard. Did you reassemble everything and try booting it up again?
I did try booting it again, but there was no display on the monitor, and the power button wouldn’t turn off the whole unit. One of the case fans was also running slower than the others.