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honey the codewitch31-Jan-24 0:31
mvahoney the codewitch31-Jan-24 0:31 
I successfully upgraded my PC's storage with an additional 4TB of 990 Pro goodness.

It almost didn't happen. I have a 4080FE GPU that's 3 slots wide. It completely covers the release lever used to pop the GPU out of the slot. You have to get under the card to get at the lever. You can't come in from the side because of the NVMe enclosures surrounding the slot.

Effectively you can't remove the NVMe shields without removing the GPU and you can't remove the GPU without removing the NVMe shields. I think Alice Cooper wrote a song about this.

When I say you can't, I mean physically impossible except perhaps if you remove the CPU cooler and RAM and come at it from the back, but that means reapplying paste as well as disassembling every major component on the board. A double wide GPU took me an hour with a couple of tools. This triple wide one simply wasn't happening.

So there I sit, scratching my head. Eventually I figure "ah hell, let's do the obvious first" - and after unscrewing the rear plane of the card I simply tried to lift it straight out of the slot, release lever be damned.

It came right out, like getting ready to kick a door in only to find the knob turns freely.

The mystery of that quickly sorted itself, as there was the lever, just hanging out on the motherboard, laying next to the PCIe slot it belonged to.

It isn't visibly broken. I think it just worked its way loose either removing my old 2080TI GPU, or installing this new 4080 one.

I could reinstall the release lever and effectively hermetically seal my machine as a result. You could weld the hood of your car shut. Why not?

Roll eyes | :rolleyes:
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

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