Scratch on motherboard - is it fatal?

[yoadknux]

My friend upgraded his PC and I was gonna give his Z390 motherboard an OC test, problem is he scratched the motherboard in the socket area.
I have no experience with this type of damage, is it usually fatal? I attach the images he took.



Would appreciate your knowledge!

 

[JLK03F150]

Hopefully those two traces just have the insulation scraped off & they are not shorted or open. Only one way to find out if it still works, set it up & start it up.

 

[EarthDog]

Yikes... don't cross lines!

(Ghostbuster reference for you youngens..)

 

[ihrsetrdr]

Use a VOM to check for continuity along both sides of the scrape on each trace, and across each trace to check for short. Coat the scratch with nail polish.

 

[Woomack]

Looks like the traces are fine but without tests hard to confirm that. If I'm right then the traces are for RAM slots so if you don't have any other way to check it, then run some RAM stability tests on all slots. Also as ihrsetrdr said, coat the scratch with nail polish or something similar.