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Even if it worked electrically, I'd be afraid to do that on commodity home hardware while powered. The motherboard might be held in space on standoffs, and you'
by imglorp 5y ago
Even if it worked electrically, I'd be afraid to do that on commodity home hardware while powered. The motherboard might be held in space on standoffs, and you're putting a ton of force to jam that edge card connector in. If the flex induces things in sockets to wiggle around, or poor exercises any poor solder joints, you might introduce some transient errors.
Or I'm just paranoid. A ZIF PCI-E socket would be swell for this.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoHow's that different from putting the card in when the machine is off?
- imglorp 5y agoCausing random connections on your motherboard to flex thus making/breaking any flaky ones, you might introduce errors into your state. Real server hotswap hardware is not putting any force on the motherboard; it goes into a caged connector.