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Acidentally ripped off pci-e slot

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Im just wondering if pc is safe to use if some of the pins are touching lol. Its a shame I cheaped out on the board so now no leftover pci slots to plug my graphics card in ?

 

Overall I found this accident quite halarious since I never saw shit like that and wanted to share. Im new to this forum and as you can see very clumsy 

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No it's not safe, you might kill the motherboard or also some of your other components.

Get a new board.

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Rip in PCIEces.

 

You should definitely not have the pins from the leftover of the PCIE touching, as they could bridge and short or whatever...

Although I really can't recommend you run your board in this condition and unless you're very very adapt at soldering; I would not recommend you try to DIY repair it.

 

Sometimes it's better to just get a new boards.

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If you can live without the Slot you can remove all the pins sticking out (just bending them back and forth until they fall off); this prevents shorts and the board should keep on working, I've done that twice without issue myself. Only way to actually fix it would be soldering on a new slot which is gonna be quite difficult.

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So that's what a PCIe slot looks underneath... I'm so sorry I laughed at the title and image, however it is interesting to see what it is like underneath the slot shroud.

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16 minutes ago, Nzzska said:

Im just wondering if pc is safe to use if some of the pins are touching lol. Its a shame I cheaped out on the board so now no leftover pci slots to plug my graphics card in ?

 

Overall I found this accident quite halarious since I never saw shit like that and wanted to share. Im new to this forum and as you can see very clumsy 

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What were you even trying to do that could have made that happen? I'm perplexed beyond belief.

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1 minute ago, seoz said:

So that's what a PCIe slot looks underneath... I'm so sorry I laughed at the title and image, however it is interesting to see what it is like underneath the slot shroud.

Dont worry man, that was my reaction too. I dont game now, so just getting rid of pins will be sufficient replacement untill I get myself a new board.

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1 minute ago, SupersonicSaint said:

What were you even trying to do that could have made that happen? I'm perplexed beyond belief.

I tried to remove GPU, maybe pulled a little too much, part of pci-e went off. At that point Im sweating and trying to either put thing back or remove it without bending pins (and I had bad experiances with pins before so at this point Im pretry much panicing) . I saw that it comes off nicely (as you can see on the right everything is straight) so i just decided to go with it and find myself way to put it back later on, however at the end the entire "going off nicely" thing was a bait and I couldnt remove it gently or put it back on. 

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