PCI Slot Bad?

fatboytyler

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Long story short, I had to remove my GPU from the top PCI slot. When I put it back in, it wouldn't read it at first. So I plugged it into the bottom slot and it did fine so I then put it back in the top slot and it worked. Eventually it got to where it would show the windows boot screen, but then go black. Everything booted fine according the noise in my speakers. I had to hard restart it once to get it to display the desktop. It eventually got to where I had to reboot twice, and then it wouldn't display no matter how many reboots I forced. So I plugged it in to my bottom Slot and there has been no issues.

Is there any way to confirm that the top slot is bad? Is there a way to fix it maybe?

I just ordered a sound card and with the GPU being in the bottom slot the sound card will be rubbing the GPU Casing which isn't a huge deal, but I would prefer a gap.
 

flyoffacliff

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Try resetting CMOS.
 

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Yes this was recommended to me. I am going to try a hard reset of it. I just now salvaged a jump connector off of an old IDE hard drive. So I am going to attempt it in the next few days.
 

fatboytyler

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Yes this was recommended to me. I am going to try a hard reset of it. I just now salvaged a jump connector off of an old IDE hard drive. So I am going to attempt it in the next few days.
 

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