Motherboard shorting out

[King04]

Hello guys,

When removing the usb ports from the motherboard on my Acer 5532, I messed up and now the ground and power points are connected, so when I try to turn on the computer, it creates a short circuit and turns off.

After I removed the ports, I used a drill to clean the solder from the power holes but the drill was too large and opened the power holes to a point where it touches the ground area.

Is there any way to stop the short circuit?

 

[digitaldoc]

Little hard to visualize what happened. If you can post some pics it may help.

 

[BradleyJames]

i have come across a similar issue, when a customer installed his new mobo himself, the mobo backplate tab shorted out and grounded one of the usb ports. there was nothing we could do to fix it after it grounded. needed a new mobo

 

[digitaldoc]

Sounds like what happened in this situation. Can short out against the case if the stepoffs are not use correctly.