How would I know if I cracked my motherboard?

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I was installing a Hyper 212 Plus on my Asus P8Z68-V PRO yesterday, and for some reason a couple of the nuts going into the 4 screws of the CPU cooler felt tight. I had to tighten the screws and nuts with a screwdriver, using the included nut adaptor (sorry, don't know the official term).

I had to tighten the screws to get them to seat evenly on the surface of the motherboard. But then I started worrying that I may have overtightened the screws and damaged my motherboard.

So my question is: how would I know I have cracked or damaged my motherboard from overtightening the CPU cooler screws? My PC boots, and I ran IntelBurnTest on maximum and didn't see any errors.

Would I know right away if I damaged the motherboard?
 

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Since the PC boots into Windows and I don't get any errors in IntelBurnTest or Prime95, would you say the motherboard is not damaged?