TL;DR: NVIDIA RTX 5000 GPUs don't work with some EVGA Intel Z690 motherboards due to an issue with optional pins that the mobo maker set live (and other motherboard manufacturers didn't).

A Redditor devised a crafty solution to fix RTX 50 boot-up problems on their EVGA motherboard by insulating the problematic pins with Kapton tape.

This time around, it's to fix an incompatibility between NVIDIA RTX 50 series cards and some EVGA Z690 motherboards (and possibly Z790 as well) that causes the system to not boot entirely.