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Repairing a Motherboard trace?!?!(AKA Dammit, I just messed up a great board.)

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MrChipMuthabored

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Ahhh CRAP! I was using some needle nose pliers to get my chipset HSF off my KT7A-RAID board and I slipped, scratching the PCB on the underside of my board.

The scratch is across a trace, but I'm not a 100% sure its severed, although it sure looks like it. Has anyone tried to use some conductive stuff to repair a trace?

 
Most likely it is not cut through the trace. The only way to know for sure is to use an ohm-meter and measure it out.

I have used the trace repair paint before, it works. The only sure fix though is to jumper the trace with a wire jumper.

I would try the motherboard first. Chances are you did not cut the trace.
 
Thanks for replying...

Yeah, I hope the trace isn't scratched, I hope I only marred the clear-coat. Worse comes to worse, I hope I can *not* use the DIMM that the trace connects to the North bridge.
 
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