I think my broken ddr3 slot messed up my pcie slots

Dec 19, 2017
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Hi, My name is Pedro. I need your help. This is my motherboard (g1 sniper m3)

Two days ago I was trying to adjust some cables inside of my pc. While I was doing it I heard a cracking sound, after that my system didn't want to boot up. I think a cable got hooked to my 4gb memory and detached the slot from the motherboard, because when I placed my memory in the other 3 ddr3 slots it worked just fine and my system booted up.

I've been using onboard graphics lately because I sold my old video card, so yesterday I bought two ASUS 1050 (no power plugs requiered), one for me and the other one for my girlfriend. I unistalled the drivers and software from the old card and installed the new ones. Then I installed the new video card.

When I turned on my pc it booted up, I heard the Windows sound, the fans of the video card were spinning, but my monitor said, NO SIGNAL.

-I tried changing the HDMI cable... NO SIGNAL.
-I tried with my other monitor and both cables... NO SIGNAL.
-I tried using the video card I bought for my gf... NO SIGNAL.
-I tried switching the 4gb memory between the three working slots... NO SIGNAL.
-I tried using all three PCIe slots of my motherboard... NO SIGNAL.

Finally, I tried placing my 4gb memory in the broken ddr3 slot to try making it work, I pressed really hard and the system booted up, so I thought "maybe now it will work" but still... NO SIGNAL.

Does anyone know what might be happening here? Could the damage be much deeper than I thought?

Thanks
 
Solution
Given the type of damage, the area affected is I/O to the CPU from the south end, the video from the CPU heads to the top of the board and is probably fine... but guess what else comes from the south of the board where the RAM traces run... PCIe to the southbridge (it's all connected).

Onboard video doesn't use PCIe and is unaffected.
Dec 19, 2017
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510
Thank you for the response, I really, really hope it can be fixed. It is weird that with the integrated graphics everything seems to work just fine. I can even play some basic games as always. Everything looks normal.
 

Mark RM

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Given the type of damage, the area affected is I/O to the CPU from the south end, the video from the CPU heads to the top of the board and is probably fine... but guess what else comes from the south of the board where the RAM traces run... PCIe to the southbridge (it's all connected).

Onboard video doesn't use PCIe and is unaffected.
 
Solution
Dec 19, 2017
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510
Thank you very much for such a detailed answer. Close to my house, here in Peru, there is a place full of computer technicians, do I give it a try?, do you think it is repairable? or I better save my time and money.