[SOLVED] could my motherboard have done latent damage to my gpu?

[cyberscoundrel]

went ape brains today and reseated my pcie wifi card on my running computer. fried instantly. all i could test is my gpu and it works, running it on my old backup hardware, but im concerned about latent damage. got it a few days ago so its the only thing im really concerned about right now

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

It's possible that you crossed some power pins on the PCIe slot to fry that card/slot on the board. You should be worried about all the other hardware in your system since you're always advised to power down the system, then switch off the main power outlet and then plug in or out any devices inside the system.

 

[cyberscoundrel]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

It's possible that you crossed some power pins on the PCIe slot to fry that card/slot on the board. You should be worried about all the other hardware in your system since you're always advised to power down the system, then switch off the main power outlet and then plug in or out any devices inside the system.

thank you! i mean more worried in terms of how pissed would i be about damaging this. ill get to testing everything else when i can save up for a new am4 motherboard. the wifi card involved in killing my motherboard also works, not sure if that means anything though. definitely have learned this lesson the hard way lol