I was called as an emergency after the disaster. First time I've even attempted reseating a PCIE slot, including setting the pins back into the housing.
I used a precision torx bit to straighten pins until I could slide a divider in and get the gaps in place.
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now that’s… That’s something
Damn you undid a murder! That is some great work OP.
Valiant effort but I wouldn’t even risk it. I’d just get a new mobo.
At this point I would only use the bottom pcie slot.
That … that’s … what the …
Make sure he can refrain from demonstrating equally aggressive eagerness towards the young ladies once he starts to develop interest in them
did they pay you, i hope they did
I hate uncovered PCIe slots, they rub me the wrong way
Learning moment.
PS I’d be tempted to add a very small line of silicone caulking along the bottom just to make sure it does not move easily. Still impressive, both on the damage AND the fix.
r/hardwaregore
Wow, that’s one I’ve never seen before. Impressive.
Pretty good. I just cut them off and use another slot.
Technically inclined relative of the year award
How in the hell?… This is one of those situations where I wouldn’t even touch it. 1) because it’s a learning experience and 2) because I wouldn’t want anybody to know I’m a pc miracle worker.
Are the photos from 1995?
How much did you get paid for your fantastic work?
Jesus that’s a hell of a success, fair play to you!
I nearly created the same situation with the frankenPC removing the previous GPU last week – carefully managed to snap the lock off after realising it was physically impossible to undo it.
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
WOWWW I’ve seen those damaged far less in extreme shipping damages. Also WTF is wrong with nephew where “destroy an entire motherboard forever” was the chosen action instead of unlatching a 10mm plastic latch (and maybe 2 screws). He’s lucky it wasn’t an ASUS board with the full metal reinforcements.
/ yeah just use the lower slot from now on. I wouldn’t risk it. Tell nephew to watch some pc build vids lol
This needs to be marked NSFW
Did bro just *rip* it out of the socket? lol
That’s impressive really, the whole ripping out of the slot.
It hurts to look at unhoused pcie slots
That’s impressive not gonna lie.
The first image triggered my arachnophobia 😭
Tell them to just call you to install it, next time. Because I have a feeling this *will* happen again…😬
I dont even know how it possible to fuck up like this, but gg for the fix
Wait…
I don’t understand how this happened.
He ripped the GPU out of the old motherboard with the PCIe attached?
and you managed to repair the old board, or was the new board damaged as well?
Help.
i hope he learned💀
You were able to reseat that thing? Hell brother that’s impressive in my books.
How old is this nephew?
Did you really went through all of this? Maybe it was time for a new motherboard anyway, but hats off for the effort and the repair 🙂
RIP MOBO
This is like those “bent my socket pins back and got it booting again!” posts on steroids!
I have to rest pins on a CPU / mobo. But never accomplished the pci reset.
Eagerness and PCs do not mix.
Sell your Nephew, holy hell good job fixing it though
