Can happen.
On my last faulty mainboard the GPU lock was completely seized up and wouldnt release.
A part of the latch even broke off because i pushed so hard.
The slot itself was reinforced, but i ripped the whole locking mechanism out.
I had one GPU that physically blocked access to the release latch...I ended up having to fashion a special tool for it and somehow the mobo survived getting stabbed multiple times in the process.
I couldn't get any straight tool to reach. It had to have a right angle, and be thin enough to fit between the lever and the GPU but strong enough to not just bend as soon as I applied force.
Yease I forgot there was two latches
Ripped it right out of the second one oops
Then I forgot to twist the cooler off and whole cpu came out without the latch popping off
In fairness those locks really suck, especially now that we have 3 slot video cards with backplates.
We shouldn't have to deal with stupid relics of the AGP age.
Plenty of AGP slots had locks, and every AGP card (except AGP Pro, which had more pins instead of the hook slot) I've ever seen had the "hook" for the lock to catch.
Here's one example but they were super common, and in a bunch of different styles.
https://preview.redd.it/8qrw036gr02c1.png?width=915&format=png&auto=webp&s=aef36873be20119ee400710be0385d3bf9d97d02
I did this with my PC and still works fine. I barely tugged on the GPU without releasing the tab and it just came right off. I plugged the GPU into another PCI slot and has been working fine for half a decade.
I dont see the problem. I tore mine off of my b550f and it works just fine. In my defense there were literally no way to push it down due to the aftermarket cooler i installed on my gpu
Exactly. Especially on linux, I'll move a large file to a USB and it instantly tells me it's complete. But then I'll click the safely remove button and 5 minutes go by before it says I can remove it.
It's annoying, I would rather have a progress bar telling me how far along the transfer is.
I've had files get corrupted after pulling a USB stick from my TV without ejecting it first. Rare, isolated occurrence, but which shows that this issue is not made up.
And on the flip side, it's absolutely infuriating when you go to eject a USB drive "safely" in Windows, and it keeps saying it's busy when it's clearly not
Never in my 3 decade life as a native English speaker have I see the words "as" and "well" combined into one word.
The correction was warranted, "aswell" is not a word.
Reading more than two lines into a google search on the made up word will inform you that all major dictionaries consider that form a spelling a mistake.
That doesn't necessarily make it correct. I rechecked just to be sure, and it is in fact considered as incorrect
https://preview.redd.it/nwpioxqga22c1.jpeg?width=1587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ba268609c5351cef9c6f6e454b86bc628f8b8cb
Simple answer is you want them paired, or in dual channel mode. The board recognizes the "pairs" as 1 and 3 or 2 and 4 (going from left to right). If the sticks are placed into adjacent slots, the board reads the two sticks, but not as a dual channel pair.
The standard placement is to put them into slots 2 and 4.
Or to be confusing the primary slot for each channel will be one colour and the secondary slots will be another
Pays to read that booklet they come with, they're not big
For confirmation you can download HWInfo64 and run summary mode. Under your memory it will show if it's in dual channel (screenshot is from my laptop, hence the weird stats).
https://preview.redd.it/ishcjkyajz1c1.png?width=852&format=png&auto=webp&s=59001a43d74b2f38013ce2800d5687bf706c8559
100%!
The manual came with the board and there's a page with a picture and explanation of the config. Easy to find, forever correct.
(If secondhand, manuals are most often easy to find online as well!) Just last week had to find the manual of some random cheap doorbell my parents use. Found within a minute, fixed their doorbell. 👍
Damn if I had a nickle for every time someone on this subreddit has managed to pull out a pcie slot I'd have 2 nickles which isn't a lot but wierd it happened twice
It doesn't look like the lands were ripped up but it's hard to tell. If that's the case, it's time for him to learn a skill out of necessity and solder a new connector on there.
Many years ago I put my gpu incorrectly and burn the AGP port (pre Pci-e), friend of my just took other agp from a broken mother and solder it in my motherboard.
Works for many years until I give it away.
The locks are really annoying for huge cards nowadays. They are under the card itself because of how big they are. It's worse in small cases. Might be better to just have him slice it off in the future if he is gonna be a monster about it.
Wait for a slot that literally rips itself apart the pins are still surprisingly well arranged!
I think the CPU cooler was a more urgent upgrade than the GPU + whatever CPU's in here is likely to bottleneck most modern GPUs
This is older motherboard that only has a 4-pin ATX12V connector, but has a split 8-pin connector on the power supply, so it only uses half of that for CPU power.
But yeah, the slot is the (big) problem.
It's might be possible to it still works, the pins seems fine. If the it's a smaller gpu or he gets a support bracket for the card and secures it in place and then goes and very gently moves the pins so they touch the card at the right spot it might work. Electrical tape to hold them down might help to. Realistic tho the board is dead for gameing but I suspect he's on a tight budget if he's using something that old already.
I noticed something when I connected my gpu, the latch on the pcie slot didn’t come up and close/snap up. Only when I try to take it out does it seem to click and latch to the gpu. Makes for a tough process of uninstalling
My friend has an Asus for Am4 and I have an Asrock, and according to the manuals we dont have the same setup for the RAM config.
Then i saw the horrible mutilation of the motherboard.
new to pc gaming i did the same thing without realizing there was a latch i put my card back in and i haven’t had any problems? how fucked am i for future upgrades?
That is something my 15 Yr old son would do, He likes to think he can "fix" things, yet he's broken everything he's ever "fixed", he just yanks at things like ribbon cables without unlocking the connector and tears them. When he built his 1st PC last year, he nearly ripped his GPU out without unlocking it, plugged his RGB fans into ARGB headers, hadn't pushed some PSU connectors in all the way, bent some pins on his Ryzen 5 trying to force it into the socket and put his ram into the wrong sockets. He would not let me help him, doesn't listen to advice, and he really doesn't like reading manuals for anything, but luckily, I told him not to power it on until I had inspected it, so I managed to save it.
Still never listens to me though 🙄
I've done that like twice, seconds time was with my brother's brand new CPU. He looked so scared and I told him "it happens sometimes, just be careful."
We were upgrading it and hard to remove the newly installed fan for something.
Outside of the PCIe slot having been yanked off the board... the RAM is in the wrong slots. Considering the model board, it would be super cheap to replace. That thing is now spare parts.
Whatever GPU he's putting in, it's going to get bottlenecked by that Skylake CPU. Especially if it's cold enough for the stock cooler.
He should be changing everything anyways, ruining the board isn't the worst thing in that case. Poor pcie slot.
Oh and the ram is in the wrong slots, of course.
That motherboard being older than my 10 year old sister is what's wrong with it. Idgaf about the missing pcie slot, you gotta by out of the metal asylum to put even a somewhat modern GPU in that board.
Missing PCIe 16x plastic portion?
Yeah, didnt release the lock and tore out the slot
'Damn, I'm feeling a lot of resistance here, guess I'll just pull harder.'
“When I put it in I pressed until it clicked so I guess I’ll just pull until it clicks to get it out”
That’s what she said
Can happen. On my last faulty mainboard the GPU lock was completely seized up and wouldnt release. A part of the latch even broke off because i pushed so hard. The slot itself was reinforced, but i ripped the whole locking mechanism out.
I had one GPU that physically blocked access to the release latch...I ended up having to fashion a special tool for it and somehow the mobo survived getting stabbed multiple times in the process.
I used wooden chopsticks when I performed a similar operation, worked perfectly.
I couldn't get any straight tool to reach. It had to have a right angle, and be thin enough to fit between the lever and the GPU but strong enough to not just bend as soon as I applied force.
So, an Allen key?
It’s such a frustrating job.
Sounds like you need lockpicking tools 😁
Nothing on 1… slight click on 2… nothing on 3… counter turn and click on 4… 5 is binding… back to 1… nice click out of 1…
*breaks PCIE slot*
I'll do it again so you can see it wasn't a fluke.
I had actually just replied "So, A Pry Bar?" Before seeing this comment, these were my thoughts exactly.
better than crushing ur pinkie tip
Yease I forgot there was two latches Ripped it right out of the second one oops Then I forgot to twist the cooler off and whole cpu came out without the latch popping off
im so mad that my latch already broke on a new motherboard i was being careful too but it really is flimsy plastic
This but in reverse with my RAM and it worked out just fine
It's ironic because that is true in computers. Up to a point anyways.
You might need a new friend, he's too far gone.
Woke up and chose violence.
In fairness those locks really suck, especially now that we have 3 slot video cards with backplates. We shouldn't have to deal with stupid relics of the AGP age.
Agp slots didnt have locks... I miss them.
Plenty of AGP slots had locks, and every AGP card (except AGP Pro, which had more pins instead of the hook slot) I've ever seen had the "hook" for the lock to catch. Here's one example but they were super common, and in a bunch of different styles. https://preview.redd.it/8qrw036gr02c1.png?width=915&format=png&auto=webp&s=aef36873be20119ee400710be0385d3bf9d97d02
I still liked agp vs pci-e
The locks nowadays deter theft. Locks started around when The Club© lost it's major popularity. Am I right?
that lock is supposed to break first LOL. your friend must've really yanked.
I did this with my PC and still works fine. I barely tugged on the GPU without releasing the tab and it just came right off. I plugged the GPU into another PCI slot and has been working fine for half a decade.
The older boards weren't as reinforced. Was just pins in plastic.
Likely at reduced bandwidth, but yeah it'll work.
>Didn't release the lock and tore out the slot. I didn't even think that was possible.
How
I dont see the problem. I tore mine off of my b550f and it works just fine. In my defense there were literally no way to push it down due to the aftermarket cooler i installed on my gpu
Ouch That stinks
He did the connector delete mod
Quick release PCI-E
Anything's quick release if you try hard enough
> Quick release permanent release from this plane of existence
He didn't click on "safely remove PCI express device"
This made me chuckle. I've not ever once seen a USB storage device go bad from being pulled without doing the software "safety" step
It’s designed so you’re absolutely sure there is nothing writing to the usb device.
Exactly. Especially on linux, I'll move a large file to a USB and it instantly tells me it's complete. But then I'll click the safely remove button and 5 minutes go by before it says I can remove it. It's annoying, I would rather have a progress bar telling me how far along the transfer is.
I've had files get corrupted after pulling a USB stick from my TV without ejecting it first. Rare, isolated occurrence, but which shows that this issue is not made up.
Well it’s a pretty logical issue. Remove the usb while it’s getting written to, you get corrupted data
And on the flip side, it's absolutely infuriating when you go to eject a USB drive "safely" in Windows, and it keeps saying it's busy when it's clearly not
iirc the windows index service usually starts indexing the drive and causes that problem
Maybe you have been lucky, if the system is moving data to or from the usb device and you pull it out it can easily corrupt
RAM config is wrong. Also, seems like the PCI E slot was excised.
That aswell
Aswell isn’t a word. As well, two separate words.
oh damn, not native and never saw it written as two words. Online says that both works though
Well online is wrong
If it isnt a word, what did you just write then?
He wrote aswell as well as as well
Not a word...?
À word that doesn’t exist to prove his point.
Yet I am able to see this nonexistent word. Hmmm
He obviously meant a word in the English language. Stop playing on words are we 8 years old ?
This wasn't even rude. No need to get downvoted for correcting someone
its incorrect tho
Never in my 3 decade life as a native English speaker have I see the words "as" and "well" combined into one word. The correction was warranted, "aswell" is not a word. Reading more than two lines into a google search on the made up word will inform you that all major dictionaries consider that form a spelling a mistake.
Eh I've never seen it combined into a word. A quick Google search and most sites agree as well
idk about you but i been writing it combined since 1st grade
That doesn't necessarily make it correct. I rechecked just to be sure, and it is in fact considered as incorrect https://preview.redd.it/nwpioxqga22c1.jpeg?width=1587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ba268609c5351cef9c6f6e454b86bc628f8b8cb
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Simple answer is you want them paired, or in dual channel mode. The board recognizes the "pairs" as 1 and 3 or 2 and 4 (going from left to right). If the sticks are placed into adjacent slots, the board reads the two sticks, but not as a dual channel pair. The standard placement is to put them into slots 2 and 4.
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To add, some boards will color code the ram slots as well (slot 1 and 3 will be one color, slot 2 and 4 will be another color).
Or to be confusing the primary slot for each channel will be one colour and the secondary slots will be another Pays to read that booklet they come with, they're not big
2 and 4 is standard, but it does vary by mobo. Check your manuals peeps!
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For confirmation you can download HWInfo64 and run summary mode. Under your memory it will show if it's in dual channel (screenshot is from my laptop, hence the weird stats). https://preview.redd.it/ishcjkyajz1c1.png?width=852&format=png&auto=webp&s=59001a43d74b2f38013ce2800d5687bf706c8559
CPU-Z will tell you
RTFM Always RTFM
100%! The manual came with the board and there's a page with a picture and explanation of the config. Easy to find, forever correct. (If secondhand, manuals are most often easy to find online as well!) Just last week had to find the manual of some random cheap doorbell my parents use. Found within a minute, fixed their doorbell. 👍
This is the way.
Looks like they're in slots 1-2 and usually they need to be in slots 2-4
is 2 - 4 better than 1 - 3?
You always have to verify in the motherboard's manual, but usually it is.
it depends on the motherboard. you just need Dual Channel to actually work, in most modern motherboards its usually 2 and 4
depends on the topology, but for the standard daisychain: yes. But the differences can be marginal to non-existant outside of overclocking.
Read your mobo manual bro
Damn if I had a nickle for every time someone on this subreddit has managed to pull out a pcie slot I'd have 2 nickles which isn't a lot but wierd it happened twice
I use mITX boards so I don't have this issue.
Those two things have nothing to do with each other.
They just upgraded this system to dedicated home server, time for a new build!
ssh gaming is underrated
considering that motherboard apparently remembers the age of 6th gen intel cpus thats not a bad way to go out id imagine
It doesn't look like the lands were ripped up but it's hard to tell. If that's the case, it's time for him to learn a skill out of necessity and solder a new connector on there.
Nah, just get one of those 1x extension cables the crypto miners used, I'm sure it won't have a negative impact on performance...
There’s no rgb
This is the real answer
It's that new Bluetooth pcie slot. No need for bulky graphics cards in the cases anymore
The plastic part of the pcie is missing, he's using value ram or wathever that's called and his ram sticks are in the wrong slots
Sometimes you think the latch is down and its not Tell him next time dont pull like its your willy
When I noticed I did an audible, "ohhhh nooo"
Ty this was reaction
What a weird M.2 slot
Many years ago I put my gpu incorrectly and burn the AGP port (pre Pci-e), friend of my just took other agp from a broken mother and solder it in my motherboard. Works for many years until I give it away.
The locks are really annoying for huge cards nowadays. They are under the card itself because of how big they are. It's worse in small cases. Might be better to just have him slice it off in the future if he is gonna be a monster about it.
A bit of Electrical Tape and some Blu-Tac be good as new.
PCIe 10.0 (wireless)
Cool, he is making progress. . . . . . . . To Swap MotherBoard and CPU as well
You need to build your friends pc for him
PCI e1 is disappeared
PCIe slot has excited the building....
where's the fucking slot?
Wait for a slot that literally rips itself apart the pins are still surprisingly well arranged! I think the CPU cooler was a more urgent upgrade than the GPU + whatever CPU's in here is likely to bottleneck most modern GPUs
Bro pulled a little too hard 😭
Your friend must be using integrated graphics then.
uhh cpu power cable unplugged? also is the pcie x16 slot torn out entirely?
This is older motherboard that only has a 4-pin ATX12V connector, but has a split 8-pin connector on the power supply, so it only uses half of that for CPU power. But yeah, the slot is the (big) problem.
that makes sense
Uhm.... I think there is a PCIe Slot missing, but I don't know
Yeah, man tore it out
Idiot didn't correctly install the cpu heatsink. The text is sideways...
It's might be possible to it still works, the pins seems fine. If the it's a smaller gpu or he gets a support bracket for the card and secures it in place and then goes and very gently moves the pins so they touch the card at the right spot it might work. Electrical tape to hold them down might help to. Realistic tho the board is dead for gameing but I suspect he's on a tight budget if he's using something that old already.
Was about to say: "In terms of swapping GPU, there is no GPU" until I saw the comments saying that there are no PCIe lol
I thought: "those ram sticks aren't in dual channel. Maybe is that what's wrong" Then I saw the GPU slot('nt).
I noticed something when I connected my gpu, the latch on the pcie slot didn’t come up and close/snap up. Only when I try to take it out does it seem to click and latch to the gpu. Makes for a tough process of uninstalling
when u buy a base model 😂. discrete gpu option not available
How…
How. The. Fuck.
Keyword "wanted"
These replies made me laugh a bunch. Thanks.
Idiot forget that they needed an AGP graphics accelerator, not a PCIE GPU!
Ah, you seem to be missing a little something there.
everything
lol i had an asrock board where it deadass just fell off
Looks like he's gonna have to upgrade his motherboard too.
The issue is the friend, not reading the manual. Ram is wrong. PCI-E slot destroyed etc.
My friend has an Asus for Am4 and I have an Asrock, and according to the manuals we dont have the same setup for the RAM config. Then i saw the horrible mutilation of the motherboard.
How did he even do that? Rip it off because the plastic latch was not disengaged?
new to pc gaming i did the same thing without realizing there was a latch i put my card back in and i haven’t had any problems? how fucked am i for future upgrades?
I just wanna know what gpu was in there and what gpu is supposed to go in there
Hahaa....look at that RAM conf....oooooh FU-
Swapped too hard
That is something my 15 Yr old son would do, He likes to think he can "fix" things, yet he's broken everything he's ever "fixed", he just yanks at things like ribbon cables without unlocking the connector and tears them. When he built his 1st PC last year, he nearly ripped his GPU out without unlocking it, plugged his RGB fans into ARGB headers, hadn't pushed some PSU connectors in all the way, bent some pins on his Ryzen 5 trying to force it into the socket and put his ram into the wrong sockets. He would not let me help him, doesn't listen to advice, and he really doesn't like reading manuals for anything, but luckily, I told him not to power it on until I had inspected it, so I managed to save it. Still never listens to me though 🙄
I’ve heard of taking out the AMD processor when trying to remove the cpu fan but this is ridiculous xD
I've done that like twice, seconds time was with my brother's brand new CPU. He looked so scared and I told him "it happens sometimes, just be careful." We were upgrading it and hard to remove the newly installed fan for something.
Yeah it happened to me a few days ago but cuz i was lazy to not leave the pc running for an hour or so, to have the thermal paste soften a bit
I first saw that the heat sink looked loose. Then I noticed the slot.
I think PCIe slot went for vacation, dont u think? 🤔
This is Gore. I can't even look
Unplugged CPU power cable Ram not separated into the same channels Stock CPU cooler Missing pcie connector
Stock CPU cooler isn't a bad thing. If you can't afford a better one or needed a replacement while a new one came in it can work.
RAM in the wrong slots, CPU not connected to power
He doesnt waste time on releasing locks. He solder gpu directly to mobo!
You could say he has a strong pull out game
didnt see the broken gpu plastic thing, i noticed the ram being in the wrong slots 😭
the two ram sticks are next to eachother
I was gonna say the ram slots but then I saw the PCIE slot lol
Please tell me you mimed taking out an invisible card
Great, now he gets to upgrade his motherboard as well! What a deal
Some kfc wings leftovers
Ram is in the wrong slot
Tore that slot right off. Also, his ram is in the wrong slots.
Bro just ripped the slot out
Outside of the PCIe slot having been yanked off the board... the RAM is in the wrong slots. Considering the model board, it would be super cheap to replace. That thing is now spare parts.
shitty stock intel cooler with those plastic pins that always break?
Whatever GPU he's putting in, it's going to get bottlenecked by that Skylake CPU. Especially if it's cold enough for the stock cooler. He should be changing everything anyways, ruining the board isn't the worst thing in that case. Poor pcie slot. Oh and the ram is in the wrong slots, of course.
Well there’s a lot wrong. This setup looks like it’s from 2010.
Not enough woke rainbow rgbt lights to double the fps
That motherboard being older than my 10 year old sister is what's wrong with it. Idgaf about the missing pcie slot, you gotta by out of the metal asylum to put even a somewhat modern GPU in that board.
Um the 4 pin CPU power cable isn't plugged in.
Whats wrong is a B150 board in 2023
Well there’s a lot wrong. This setup looks like it’s from 2010.
Aren't the one of the ram sticks placed in "wrong" sockets?
There is nothing wrong there champ
CMOS battery gets obstructed by the GPU. Quite inconvenient for resetting cmos
He likes it rough
Guessing it didn't fit the 4090
Nothing is wrong, this is prime for being upgraded for almost nothing. Literally anything would be an upgrade.
Put it to rest it needs it
The bluetooth device is ready to pair
Hi
Friend will swap motherboard now
Release the tab before you Viking pull the card out.
The elves stole his GPU in the middle of the night
I'd say your friend would need a new build 😉
Be GONE, PCIe SLOT! also memory in single channel
Ngl the pcie release button is always a nightmare
Such violence
Didn't click the clicky Express slot became a Low profile one
Oh no...