My PC doesn't give any display output (MOBO damaged?)

[46godric]

Okay, so I decided to take out the GPU out of a PC and by my stupidity used a scissor to try and access the PCIe lock-thing.
When later inserting the GPU back in it doesn't work. Everything seems good, the CPU-fan spins the casefans spins and even the GPU-fans spin but I don't get any display output. So I tested the GPU in another machine and it worked, so the GPU is not the problem. My theory was that the PCIe slot was damaged, but I know that it at least powered the GPU so it can't be fully broken. I basically wanna know if it's possible that the PCIe slot is broken, even though it still gives power?

 

[ragnar-gd]

Yes, possible. Perhaps you can use another PCIe slot? Name the board, so we can check...

 

[46godric]

Yes, possible. Perhaps you can use another PCIe slot? Name the board, so we can check...

It is the Asus b150m-k. But yeah, the other two are x1 so unfortunately not..

 

[ragnar-gd]

Unfortunate. Maybe it's not the PCIe slot itself, but you might have scratched something on the MoBo.
Normally I'd suggest another GPU for testing, but in this case, as there might be a problem that can endanger the GPU, i'm rather cautious...

 

[46godric]

Okay, so I'm most likely gonna have to replace the MoBo. I'm gonna do some final testing later today and if it still doesn't work, buy a new MoBo.