Placing screws over bus lines?

[helppls]

I have a m-ATX Asus P5KPL-CM. I'm installing a CoolerMaster heatsink fan, which comes with a mounting backplate.

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Those lines (I think they're called bus lines?) go directly underneath all the stand-off screws.

Is this okay, or should I not install this heatsink fan?

 

[Charles Kozierok]

Sounds like a very bad idea to me. 🙂

 

[exdeath]

Sounds like a terrible board design to me or non compliant heatsink with mounting hardware out of spec. There should be plenty of "guard band" around screw holes and such.

 

[helppls]

Sounds like a terrible board design to me or non compliant heatsink with mounting hardware out of spec. There should be plenty of "guard band" around screw holes and such.

That's the weird thing. It screws into the same spots the stock Intel heatsink fan goes into, but the Intel hsf is plastic

There's a "white" boundary line around the screw hole but from what I can tell the bus line runs right through it.

My only thought is maybe this isn't really a bus line?

 

[Agent-A01]

those are traces, maybe the screws need some plastic washers.

 

[rickon66]

Probably ground traces.

 

[Cyborg]

I have a m-ATX Asus P5KPL-CM. I'm installing a CoolerMaster heatsink fan, which comes with a mounting backplate.

Picture:
Those lines (I think they're called bus lines?) go directly underneath all the stand-off screws.

Is this okay, or should I not install this heatsink fan?

Should be fine. Just don't over-tighten them so it bites through the solder mask and shorts the traces 🙂. I got the Asus P8Z77 -V Pro and I mounted Cooler Master Hyper 212+, and one of the mounting points for the backplate is above a band of traces going to the memory.