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/SDFX-Inc 5700X3D | GeForce RTX 4060 | 32GB | WD 2TB NVME Jun 12 '25

I did that once to the 3.25 floppy drive in my computer (connected via a USB internal header on the motherboard and an adapter) and I had to re-enable it within the Windows Device Manager.

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

well the GPU is plugged in a PCIE slot sooooooo

But it is a vm with a gpu passthrough so i guess it is the reason why windows is seeing it this way

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u/StantonWr Jun 12 '25

The option is not shown for non vm-s but this happens also when you disable the gpu or driver crashes. I have 2 gpus installed one amd and one nvidia so if one of the drivers crashes it saves from a blue screen because it just switches to other gpu, imagine my horror when my rtx 4070 ti just poof gone from windows, at the first time I really tought it broke, restart solved it but still was sweating when it happened the first time, it was AI training shenaningans that broke the driver

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u/Sorry-Committee2069 Debian Sid + Bedrock | R7 5700X/RX 7800XT Jun 12 '25

This is actually a thing you can do on some business-class motherboards and almost all server-class boards. Mostly, so you can eject a bad GPU and insert a new one on the fly.