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.

If you've been in PC building and the electronics world for long enough, you'll know that kapton tape solves a lot of problems. This time around, it's to fix an incompatibility between NVIDIA RTX 50 ...