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Is this trace damage?

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evophile

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Hi all,

I was messing with a mobo out of the case on some cardboard and upon lifting it up there was some very thin, kind of flaky metal thing left on the cardboard. It was thin like a very thin wire, but flat and made of metal yet not hard.

I looked the bottom and couldnt see where it came from.

Did I accidentally (stupidly) remove a trace or something from the bottom of the motherboard?

I'm not going to have a chance to see if this boots up again until I get another part, but I was just curious as to what I did here as I've never seen it before.
 
I seriously doubt you scrapped off a trace. I think you would remember doing something that drastic. They don't come off easy... My guess is a bit of solder or a leg from a discrete component that should have been cut off anyway. A pic would help.
 
Yeah hard to tell without some form of picture to go from, could be anything from a stray wire to packing material stuck on the board (although I have seen a couple of bad motherboard burnouts where the traces will lift off the board).
 
I'm no welder, but impurities in the solder would be my guess. Heat any metal and apply it to something and the various metals in the heated liquid begin to seperate as they cool. This is the foundation for flux and modern welds, but the same can be applied to solder. So yeah, sounds like just a little bit of crap that got soldered on with the normal solder, I think your probably fine.
 
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