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Bad PCIE Slot?

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3 hours ago, larontheaaron said:

it seems to be sitting okay, inspected the port itself and it seems fine as well (no bent pins).  Reseated it multiple times in that port and still have the same issue.  My board has two pciex16 slots so I'm currently just using the second one for now....sigh...

Odd. Is the HDMI cable not sitting straight?  and the power cables also sittings straight?

 

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So I recently moved my system to a new case, but now have an issue with sound via hdmi.  When I'm plugged into the top PCIEx16 slot, I get really bad distortion that comes and goes, but when I move it down one, everything seems fine...do you guys think it could be a bad slot?   Running a 960 on a Asus z97-ar if it helps...

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does the card look like it's sitting straight or is there any hint of it slagging down?  Could be that the new mounts are just off bit a smidgen, which causes the card to not sit properly (and I mean by less than a mm). also tightening the gpu with screws can cause it to move so u might want to hold is flat down as you screw the screws into place and dont tighten them too much

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it seems to be sitting okay, inspected the port itself and it seems fine as well (no bent pins).  Reseated it multiple times in that port and still have the same issue.  My board has two pciex16 slots so I'm currently just using the second one for now....sigh...

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3 hours ago, larontheaaron said:

it seems to be sitting okay, inspected the port itself and it seems fine as well (no bent pins).  Reseated it multiple times in that port and still have the same issue.  My board has two pciex16 slots so I'm currently just using the second one for now....sigh...

Odd. Is the HDMI cable not sitting straight?  and the power cables also sittings straight?

 

work rig

cpu: AMD 5800X mb: Pro WS X570-ACE cooling: NH-D15 ram: 32GB Corsair 3200mhz ssd: Samsung 970 Pro 512GB, 860 Evo 512GB   hdd: 4TB Seagate, 320GB gpu: Asus RTX-1060 6GB psu: Corsair RM750x display: Philips 32" 4K case: Fractal Design Define R6 Black

 

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cpu: Xeon E5-2697 v2 (12c/24t) mb: Rampage 4 Black Edition cooling: Hyper 212 EVO ram: 64GB Corsair 1866mhz ssd: 2x Intel DC S4610 (480GB), 2x Intel DC P3605 (1.6 TB)  hdd: 4x Seagate IronWolf 4TB CMR, Seagate Exos 7E8 8TB, WD VelociRaptor 10K 450GB  gpu: Asus GTX-660 psu: Corsair HX850i case: Corsair 750D

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19 hours ago, hogfather said:

Odd. Is the HDMI cable not sitting straight?  and the power cables also sittings straight?

 

yeah.... I turned my system off and moved my card down a slot and everything is fine with it so I'm pretty sure its the motherboard at this point....lucky I have two x16 slots tho...thanks for the help though :)

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