USB headers, PCIE slots suddenly stop working

Broke the retention clip on a PCIe slot - PC broken pcie slot Check for any broken CPU pins If yes, please try another CPU 4 PCIE slot, which is also applicable to the above troubleshooting steps broken pcie slot What I want to know is, would it be safe to put the video card in a different slot and just ignore the broken slot? And, if not, would it be

broken slot machine Never used the second PCIe slot before, so maybe it's always been broken, but there is no way to prove that Trying to send it back will probably just