Help! Bend PCI Socket.

[hiimFred]

So recently I moved in a new home and I had my PC shipped to me from my old house today.

I am an idiot apparently. I know I should have taken the graphics card with me but I forgot. So because of the weight, the card bent the socket.

Can I use the second PCI slot at full speed? I can in fact see that it does NOT have all the pins. Will it work at half speed? Is there any noticeable real world performance loss? Maybe I can still use the first PCI normal even though it's bent? Can I, by any means, fix it myself (it won't move when I push it down)?

 

Motherboard: Asus Z170 A

GPU: EVGA 1070 FTW

 

[AskTJ]

Ooh, how did you do that??? Try and take it to the store under warranty, unless you did something with it. How did it happen?

[AskTJ]

You shouldn't notice too much of a difference while using the bottom slot.

[VicciVicVic]

As long as solder points have been torn you can still use the first slot. No hurt to try, won't damage anything. The second one runs at the same speed unless you put something else into the first (no real world performance loss there).

[Adorable Cat]

in my (very very) limited understanding of PCI-E, it might still work. If the pins soldered to the motherboard are the parts that are pulled up (do they still poke all the way through the mobo?) you might be able to fix it with a soldering iron and skill. And if it's just the plastic that's pulled up, you may be able to just push it down all the way, but you might break something on your motherboard if you do that. But it wouldn't hurt to try first, just throw a GPU in there and see if it'll work (there's nothing it could hurt), and also see if it'd be covered under warranty.

edit: and if for some reason you can't fix it or it isn't covered under warranty, you could use one of the other PCIE slots.

[Tabs]

16 minutes ago, hiimFred said:

So recently I moved in a new home and I had my PC shipped to me from my old house today.

I am an idiot apparently. I know I should have taken the graphics card with me but I forgot. So because of the weight, the card bent the socket.

Can I use the second PCI slot at full speed? I can in fact see that it does NOT have all the pins. Will it work at half speed? Is there any noticeable real world performance loss? Maybe I can still use the first PCI normal even though it's bent? Can I, by any means, fix it myself (it won't move when I push it down)?

 

Motherboard: Asus Z170 A

GPU: EVGA 1070 FTW

 

If you connect the gpu to the second physical x16 slot, it'll run at x8 speeds. For a single 1070 you'll experience no performance degradation from that.

 

Source: I read the manual. Page 30. http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1151/Z170-A/E10611_Z170-A_UM_V2_WEB.pdf

Edited May 10, 2018 by Tabs

[GrockleTD]

connect your gpu to the indicated slot if you are unable to get a replacement under warranty 

[hiimFred]

@AskTJ @VicciVicVic @Tabs @Grockle88

First of all thanks for the replies.

I tried to install the card on the other slots and in my surprise I couldn't. The DVI port would not play nice with the back of the case. And that's when I realized that the problem is elsewhere.

My card's back is open. That's why it bent the port.

See how it doesn't follow the straight lines.

[GrockleTD]

1 hour ago, hiimFred said:

@AskTJ @VicciVicVic @Tabs @Grockle88

First of all thanks for the replies.

I tried to install the card on the other slots and in my surprise I couldn't. The DVI port would not play nice with the back of the case. And that's when I realized that the problem is elsewhere.

My card's back is open. That's why it bent the port.

See how it doesn't follow the straight lines.

take the cooler off and put it back on. see if the pcb un-bends.

[hiimFred]

Ok guys I just pushed the Grey metal inside its chasis (if that makes any sense) and the card is fine again. I connected it to the second PCI port with no problem now. Will post again to say if the pc is working fine.

[GrockleTD]

1 hour ago, hiimFred said:

Ok guys I just pushed the Grey metal inside its chasis (if that makes any sense) and the card is fine again. I connected it to the second PCI port with no problem now. Will post again to say if the pc is working fine.

such relief, quite good.

[AskTJ]

24 minutes ago, hiimFred said:

Ok guys I just pushed the Grey metal inside its chasis (if that makes any sense) and the card is fine again. I connected it to the second PCI port with no problem now. Will post again to say if the pc is working fine.

Great. I was shocked to see the card that bent. Shocking

[hiimFred]

Ok guys, everything seems to be worksing as expected!!