A little over a month ago, I accidentally damaged my Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master which caused my A1/A2 DIMM slots and PCIe slots to quit working. I could still run 16GB of ram (2x8gb) in single channel which wasn't the end of the world, but I could no longer make use of my 1080 Ti and had to make do with integrated graphics which wasn't ideal for gaming. I RMA'ed the board and sent it off for repair/replacement (when I thought it might be defective, before I found out it was damaged), was told it was damaged and my warranty was void but they'd try and repair it and send it back if they could. I got the board back and my DIMM slots are working again but I still can't get a GPU to work in any of the PCIe slots. I tried both my 1080 Ti as well as my old R9 280X without any luck. I pulled my old desktop out of storage and put the 1080 Ti in there to eliminate a bad card and it worked just fine.
It cost me $40 to ship the board down the first time. If it came back like this, am I pretty much screwed and should I just bite the bullet and replace the board?
It cost me $40 to ship the board down the first time. If it came back like this, am I pretty much screwed and should I just bite the bullet and replace the board?