[SOLVED] I bent one of the sata ports off of my motherboards while trying to feed a PSU cable through a hole. Am I ok to use the motherboard?

[jmhoward622]

The metal prongs all fell off as well so it's pretty flush, but I have over 6 SATA ports as it is (Asus x570 TUF). Am I ok to just not use that or do I need to worry about any shorts or anything like that? Thank you.

 

[CountMike]

The metal prongs all fell off as well so it's pretty flush, but I have over 6 SATA ports as it is (Asus x570 TUF). Am I ok to just not use that or do I need to worry about any shorts or anything like that? Thank you.

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