My GPUs are screwed at the front and supported at their end, so the middle part is just hanging, not touching anything.
Ouw, that's good. I thought you were placing the middle side on something, before.
Would it be an option to just remove the PCIe port myself by unsoldering it and will the mobo then just think there is no GPU connected to it? It's got more slots/ports than I have GPUs so I don't mind missing one.
How about just pull out PCIe pins that were broke, instead of pull out all of the sockets with melting the tin (
a bit risky I think)