white hare
Hey, recently my PC no longer works and i think its comes from the GPU as I've had artefacts on my monitor and stuff but that's not the point of my post.
Anyways, I noticed this on my GPU, is this some important damage ? Can it explain my PC not displaying anything ? ( I don't have integrated graphics )
The very last pin seems damaged no ?
gleaming marlin
It looks sus for sure... Sometimes pins are not connected/not used if a card doesn't necessarily need all the power or gnd connections or PCI lanes but typically they are just made with smaller slot for less lanes, still could be red herring or could be issue would probably see if mfg will rma or offer support to let you know one way or another
clear perch
@white hare No, the last pin is the confirmation pin (Sense pin) so once that gets contact the PC sends power through the card. PCIe can be hotplugged on servers and certain high end workstation boards and you really don't want power going through it before there is proper contact. So that pin is shorter so that it should get contact last.
Meaning that all the other pins hopefully have proper contact before the board receives power.