Mobo Scratch

[MrGamer7934]

Hello,
Installed new Asus P4t533 yesterday with only one slight problem. Tried to mount standoffs for the swiftech heatsink (MCX4000) and screwdriver slip scratched a couple leads on mobo. Doesn't look indented, works fine. The thought just worries me.... should I get it replaced?

Thanks

 

[RideFree]

There is a clear-coat like surface on the M/B that most-likely will allow your board to live out it's life expectancy.

If it works, it will likely go the distance. Why buy another & go through the trouble of a new installation?

 

[Marine]

Glad you got your first P4T533 up and running. I was on my third before I got a good one. I had a conflict between my SCSI RAID card and the memory address for the floppy with one -- I could see either my floppy or my hard drives, the other would only take one stick of RAMBUS. Got a good one now, and man is it fast.

I agree that if your motherboard is working at all, it's probably all right. You may have just scratched the acrylic or missed a circuit that would have killed it. If it's working, I wouldn't worry about it.

BTW, I've used HSFs from Zalman to Thermaltake to Thermalright to Swiftech to Globalwin while O/C'ing a number of (Intel) processors on a variety of motherboards, but when I got my new 3.06 cpu with its copper core HSF, I decided to try stock cpu cooling for a change, and avoided all the hassle of the scratches and ruined mobo's of the past. FYI, the stock cooler with some Arctic Silver works just fine...in my five fan Lian-li aluminum case. And the stocker snaps on in seconds with no chance of a flat-blade screwdriver slipping out of a tiny little groove and gouging the PCB and the imbedded circuits.

Don't know if 32-bit RAMBUS will survive the evolution, but it's fun for now!