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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by great_7562@ani.social to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

So, I had some issues with installing the GPU in the case, and the GPU bottom (those metals things at the bottom) ended up scratching part of the motherboard. From what I can tell, there's a bunch of similar components all the way up, so I'd think there's redundancy, so I guess it's not that important. Here is a picture:

https://i.postimg.cc/7LBwkr3h/62e626.jpg

https://files.catbox.moe/62e626.jpg

PC boots fine into bios, fans work, stuff are recognized, mouse and keyboard also works, but I haven't really done much beyond that.

Motherboard is: MSI B650 Gaming Plus Wifi

It's located here, and on them, it is written K72 then vertically smaller K2 (the 2 has an underline):

https://i.postimg.cc/XJNcnppT/modelblock-gaming-pd.png

https://files.catbox.moe/7otcn6.png

Should I get a new motherboard?

Edit: Better quality image, and new image host added.

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[-] great_7562@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago

So I guess, what this means is having one scrapped off or failing isn't a big issue (because of built-in redundancy accounting exactly for that)?

[-] dave@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago

My gut feeling is they didn’t put 20 there in case you scraped one off. But likely the others will have enough leeway to cover for it. If the power rail gets stressed enough, it might well fail sooner than it would have.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My other running theory is that (due to relative proximity to audio chip), they're muting FETs for muting audio channels when connecting headphones/speakers to prevent speaker pop.

[-] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Interesting. Is the orange line on the board separating the audio section from the rest?

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Possibly. Might be marking some isolation or just a stylistic choice by the designer.

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