Discussion Comfy Café #14

@upsurge 12ish hours for a response is pretty good. Even if it may or may not be AI generated.

Thank you for providing such a detailed breakdown of your troubleshooting steps, system specifications, and the crash log. Given that the issue persists across different operating systems and presents physical symptoms like mouse stuttering right from boot, your assessment is correct that this points toward a hardware-level issue rather than a driver problem.

Regarding the pictures of the primary PCIe slot, what appears to be corrosion looks to us like dust and particulate buildup, which can usually be cleared with compressed air. Please note that while physical corrosion is an environmental factor not covered under warranty, dust accumulation is completely standard and easy to clean.

Your detail about the Wi-Fi adapter failing until an Ethernet port is disabled is particularly telling. On high-end motherboards, the primary PCIe slot, networking controllers, and chipset share complex power routing and signaling paths. When the motherboard's PCIe bus or power delivery begins to degrade, high-bandwidth devices like your GPU experience transient bus timeouts, while secondary onboard components fail to initialize properly. Because your graphics card performs normally under full stress loads once cleanly booted, the motherboard is indeed the prime suspect.

We are more than happy to take the motherboard in for assessment to test its PCIe stability and onboard controllers. Before sending it, you may want to clean out the slot with compressed air and try setting the PCIe slot mode in your BIOS from Auto to PCIe Gen 4 to see if reducing the bus speed stabilizes the system. If you would like to move forward with an RMA, please let us know so we can guide you through the return process, and kindly remember to reinstall the CPU socket protection cover before shipping to prevent any pin damage in transit.

Blew that bitch out with an air compressor, see if that helps (doubt). At least they seem to agree most likely the motherboard is the culprit and nothing else.

 

Woops closed the wrong tab and replied in the wrong spot

 

Is it like 12-14 per pack?

 

Pretty decent amount. Still, I feel like back in the day a pack of pokemon cards used to be like 5 bucks or less. .-.

 

Fair enough then

 

nighto