Screw broke head broke off while inside motherboard

[Forsete]

Hi,

Today I was trying to swap my M.2 drive. While putting the screw back in, the little standoff head broke off, with it's shaft still inside the motherboard. It broke clean off, can't get ahold of it using pliers or anything like that. Do I have any chance of getting the screw out? If not, would it be covered by warrantee do you think?

The motherboard itself is usable as there is a second M.2 slot luckily, but still, I'd like to get this sorted.

Picture of the screw.

 

[drea.drechsler]

Did you also try from the bottom side of the motherboard? Might have to take it out for this: try to carefully back out the threaded shaft with a jewelers screwdriver from the bottom side. Hopefully it didn't break because it was cross-threaded.

I tend to doubt warranty will cover this.

 

[Ahmed Kader]

if all else fails pull out the drill

 

[neverumindnow]

An easy out is what you want. Get the set that matches your standoff. It's a drill bit and the reverse spiral bit that will pull the remainder of the screw out.

 

[CountMike]

IT's 1.2mm screw, you need a dentist to do that.