Fried Motherboard?

[marvin5881]

Was working inside my case with my z170-m and while I was trying to fit my massive GPU into my system I noticed a had severed several SATA connectors on my motherboard. After this the power button does absolutely nothing and I've tried shorting the 2 Power-Sw pins and nothing at all happens, fans don't even spin at all. What do you guys make of this?

[marvin5881]

The green standby LED is lit, does this mean my motherboard isn't fried after all?

[ELSknutson]

can you tak a pic of the damage?

 

[marvin5881]

8 minutes ago, ELSknutson said:

can you tak a pic of the damage?

 

PIcs added.

[ELSknutson]

well if you havent fried your mother board yet turn it off and unplug it and clip the fingers sticking out if they touch one another its Game over but that being said if they didnt touch you should be ok

[RadiatingLight]

in theory, a well made motherboard will not die from broken SATA ports.

is it possible you broke something else as well?

 

also, make sure none of the pins from the broken SATA connectors are touching.

[marvin5881]

None of the pins are touching. It really doesn't look like I could've done anything else. The system was working perfectly fine before I tried to add the GPU in and the SATA connectors broke. Considering that I've tried to manually short the Power SW pin do you think that means the motherboard is gone?