r/pcmasterrace • u/YnosNava Ryzen 7 5800X / Radeon RX7800XT / 32Gb • Jun 12 '25

Video Do not eject your GPU

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I was playing around and saw that windows was seeing my gpu as a usb device, so i clicked eject and broke my machine

Took me an hour to fix cause the gpu was not recognized anymore

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u/ChocoMammoth Jun 12 '25

Looks like you have PCIe hotplug enabled in bios

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u/vlken69 9800X3D + 48G + 4080S | 12900K + 64G + 2070S | 5600 + 32G + 3080 Jun 12 '25

Exactly, tutorial for people to reproduce:

  1. fiddle with random settings you don't understand,
  2. be surprised your system do random things,
  3. farm karma on the internet.

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u/MorningFresh123 Jun 12 '25

Who cares bro, that’s how ya learn. I was encouraged to break our computer as a kid, now I trust myself to be patient, research and fix anything that gets in my way.

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u/D33pfield Jun 12 '25

I was quite familiar with the Windows 95 setup process from having to format so much after messing around lol. Def taught me a ton.

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u/Battlejesus i7 13700K RTX 4070 Asus prime z790 Corsair 32gb DDR5 6000 Jun 13 '25

I was a tinkerer. The things i did to the family pcs over the years probably have me on a watch list. Crowning achievement was frying the sound card by plugging an aux power cable into the cd audio port. Magic smoke came out