First time building a computer, and an expensive one that I can barely afford. (i7 8700k into an Asus Prime Z-370A motherboard, 64 GB of Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM).
Everything went fine until installing the motherboard: Was having trouble getting the motherboard to mate with the I/O shield. Ended up pushing it towards the I/O shield, which caused the standoffs to scrape the bottom of motherboard. Must have tried at least 15 times (remove mobo, place mobo on top of cardboard box, look at I/O shield, touch case to ground self, pick up mobo, try again to mate mobo w/ I/O shield no avail, scrape bottom some more in the process).
Looked like solder was being scraped off during the process. Finally got it to mate and line up with the standoffs. I then screwed it down, mostly just to get it out of the way. I'm pretty sure I need to buy a replacement. Took a picture of one of the areas where damage wasn't as bad. What do you think?
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNnJR34gEHrmmIQKVekmflJyNN2CXhFRddqJ9awV_GM3jV2M4E8rEt-yeWEPFgqZQ?key=TXM2T29uMVZOcnluQ29BNFJYM1hMX196SzBGX1p3
If I install everything and see if it powers on, am I risking damage to the other components?
Everything went fine until installing the motherboard: Was having trouble getting the motherboard to mate with the I/O shield. Ended up pushing it towards the I/O shield, which caused the standoffs to scrape the bottom of motherboard. Must have tried at least 15 times (remove mobo, place mobo on top of cardboard box, look at I/O shield, touch case to ground self, pick up mobo, try again to mate mobo w/ I/O shield no avail, scrape bottom some more in the process).
Looked like solder was being scraped off during the process. Finally got it to mate and line up with the standoffs. I then screwed it down, mostly just to get it out of the way. I'm pretty sure I need to buy a replacement. Took a picture of one of the areas where damage wasn't as bad. What do you think?
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNnJR34gEHrmmIQKVekmflJyNN2CXhFRddqJ9awV_GM3jV2M4E8rEt-yeWEPFgqZQ?key=TXM2T29uMVZOcnluQ29BNFJYM1hMX196SzBGX1p3
If I install everything and see if it powers on, am I risking damage to the other components?
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