OK so I'm its my first time building a gaming PC from scratch and I'm pretty ocd. I set my case down (Nzxt h440) pop the I/o shield into place and then the next part made me nervous. I sent the motherboard down and was pushing through the I/o shield trying to get it there and there was a little pop in there at some point. I had been ignoring the standoffs, I'm thinking I may have caught the standoff on something on the back of the mobo when pushing it in to the I/o? The mobo is a z97 MSI GAMING 5, could I have broke one of those little silver things on the back of the mobo?-thanks
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Did I damage my motherboard??
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Unfortunately, I don't have all my components yet, I would have no idea what to look for.
Is it bad if one of those metal things that stick out(no idea what to call them) got stripped or something didn't see that anything broke off.
Is it bad if one of those metal things that stick out(no idea what to call them) got stripped or something didn't see that anything broke off.
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You have to look at your board to see if you broke anything off of it. We can't tell you, we don't have the board or a high res picture... 
All you need to do is look for something broken off, then perhaps compare it to a picture on the web of the back of your motherboard...
EDIT: metal things that stick out..... you mean the solder? It could be bad if whatever it was soldered to isn't making contact. See first two sentences...
All you need to do is look for something broken off, then perhaps compare it to a picture on the web of the back of your motherboard...
EDIT: metal things that stick out..... you mean the solder? It could be bad if whatever it was soldered to isn't making contact. See first two sentences...
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You have to look at your board to see if you broke anything off of it. We can't tell you, we don't have the board or a high res picture...
All you need to do is look for something broken off, then perhaps compare it to a picture on the web of the back of your motherboard...
EDIT: metal things that stick out..... you mean the solder? It could be bad if whatever it was soldered to isn't making contact. See first two sentences...
Potential point of damage
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Thats what it looks like to me. That could be a bad thing.
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