Shorted 16x PCIE slot dodgy repair

I'm guessing my remaining PCIe x16 slot I just wanted to check if there is anything other than a broken Asus Hyper card that could cause

Today's heavy GPUs continue to be plagued with cracking around PCIe slots — 19 damaged Nvidia RTX 4090s, most with cracked PCBs, arrive at

broken bed frame rail slot No it's the clip that is part of the PCIe slot on the motherboard

broken slot machine Intel® Z490, Z590, and Z690 motherboards What is a PCIe NVMe SSD? PCIe NVMe SSDs are solid state drives that use the high