I know that the answer is probably "obviously yes" but....
I got an old system with a P67 motherboard and managed to get it up and running okay. I was in the process of stripping it down to clean when I noticed that one of the inductors appears to have been chipped; I think it's a ceramic block which covers a copper coil, and a big chunk of the ceramic is gone exposing the coil.
Picture of inductor
The question is whether having an exposed coil like this is a danger to either me or the part? I have another motherboard with broken pins which has an R20 inductor but I'm not confident enough to carry out soldering on a motherboard, so I might be better selling the two motherboards for someone else to do the repair, or would it be okay to just use it with the exposed coil?
I got an old system with a P67 motherboard and managed to get it up and running okay. I was in the process of stripping it down to clean when I noticed that one of the inductors appears to have been chipped; I think it's a ceramic block which covers a copper coil, and a big chunk of the ceramic is gone exposing the coil.
Picture of inductor
The question is whether having an exposed coil like this is a danger to either me or the part? I have another motherboard with broken pins which has an R20 inductor but I'm not confident enough to carry out soldering on a motherboard, so I might be better selling the two motherboards for someone else to do the repair, or would it be okay to just use it with the exposed coil?