The infamous, crap I broke the gpu slot tab when installing my nvidia

gpu stuck in pcie slot   Dan gpu slot types

Yep that pcie clip is truly a horrible mechanism It's like computers are designed let ppl learn

Recently ripped out my second pcie slot on account of my stupidity and my beefy gpu getting stuck in it Pc is working fine tho  My 3080 is mounted in the PCIe Slot directly - Idle shows x16

sport slot 99 Is the PCIE connector damaged? Is the inside end of the graphics card hitting something else on the motherboard or in the case that prevents the When I look at gpu z my gpu is only operating in x8 no matter the load If I bifurcate the pcie slot in the bios to x8x8 I can get the gpu