R3E PCI-e Slots Dead?

onefstsnake

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• Feb 17, 2011

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Well last night I went to add my 8800Ultra to my rig, along with the GTX285 thats in there for folding.
I bumped the GTX285 a bit putting the Ultra in. (sys power off)

No video from either.

Found out I knocked something off the back of the PCB on the 285...

Now the Ultra and a GTX260 dont work in any slot on the mobo...
Ive swapped BIOS's...Nothing. The red LED for VGA just stays on.

Did I kill all the PCI-E slots on my board?

 

Bobnova

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Make sure they're turned on, I've gone nuts trying to figure out why my GPU was dead only to find out I'd turned the slot off.

 

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onefstsnake

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Slots are on. Still no go. Tried 2 known good gpus and still nothing.

 

Bobnova

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Next up I'd look for metal debris on the mobo shorting something out.
I'd also try booting with no GPU and see how that flies.

 

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onefstsnake

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Tried no gpu and still get the red led for vga.

 

moocow

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Any POS card that you can try? Could be that you just killed a bunch of cards.

 

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onefstsnake

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I've tried 4 cards in every slot.

Could be a psu I guess. I'll try a spare tonight.

 

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Well took a better look at it. Booting without a GPU causes the two chips circled to get super hot within seconds.
So hot I cant keep my finger on it for even a second.

Im guessing they have something to do with the 4 PCI-E lanes...

So I might pull the board to see if something is shorting on the back.

 

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onefstsnake

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Well it turns out almost all of these chips near all 4 of the PCI-E slots are getting super hot and starting to melt.

Pretty sure the board is toast.

 

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onefstsnake

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Well the chips that are getting hot are the switches that change the pcie slots from 16x to 8x.

So it seems all PCI-E slots are dead.

 

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Well, RMA time.

 

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onefstsnake

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Doubt it. I'm the 3rd of 4th owner of the board. And Asus requires a receipt for RMA's