Feel like a real noob today...built a new system at home this am and placed one of the board mount screws in the wrong spot. Sure enough when I removed the mobo to position it correctly, I saw that I have also scratched the traces on the underside of the board in that spot. Now when I boot the machine, I'm getting all kinds of general protection faults. I attribute this to the damaged trace..

Can I salvage this board or is it toast?

I would just try fixing the trace and see what happens it can't make it any worse.

Yeah..that is my project for tomorrow I guess...don't relish taking the whole machine apart again but what're you gonna do..stupid rookie mistake eh?

Gotta love how something so simple makes for hours of extra work.