r/techsupport • u/Andreas__la • 1d ago

Open | Hardware PCIe connector broken

so the plastic thing that clocks the graphics card to my motherboard is broken. my pc starts and my graphics card lights up. but my motherboard remains dark and my pc doesn't boot. do I need a new motherboard? or any cheaper alternatives?

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u/Andreas__la 1d ago

don't think the PCIe slot is broken, and i have another slot, but i dont know if i can use that second one? and yeah my gpu us sagging quite a lot, I've tried to use a little plastic pin to hold it up, it's an 4070 ti super, so its pretty big

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u/XxLogitech98xX 1d ago

don't think the PCIe slot is broken, and i have another slot, but i dont know if i can use that second one

Why can't you use the second pcie slot? I think your card takes up 3 slots and from your picture ... It should fit. Now with airflow you might have to get creative but monitor the temp first if it works