Probably fixable but it is likely beyond what most people can accomplish, will need another card (any) to act as a donor for the connector and some very strong adhesive then bodge over to connect the piece electrically. If the rest of the card isn't damaged and it is still actually functional it should work as normal. This is the first of this kind of failure that I've seen in a long time but it is fixable unless the card is bricked from another failure.

I wonder if a jeweler would be able to braze across to the new fingers if they were bonded closely enough? Also, would you join using a straight cut like this, or would some other pattern be better for strength?

What I would do it get a PCI riser cable and instead of trying to replace the edge of the card I would run jumper wires from the traces that are supposed to go to the missing piece to the cable end of the PCI riser connector

It would be almost impossible to repair the PCB itself and even if you did get it to match up perfectly, the first time you inserted and removed it from a slot it would probably rip off.

wow..... now that's a real shame...

There are about 20 connections to be made so i think it's going to be a real problem to fix that. For the glue i would take an old card, break it into pieces and try several types of glue.
There must be something on the market that really makes it strong again, so i don't think that's the big problem.

But the electrical connections will be a real pita i think.

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wow..... now that's a real shame...

There are about 20 connections to be made so i think it's going to be a real problem to fix that. For the glue i would take an old card, break it into pieces and try several types of glue.
There must be something on the market that really makes it strong again, so i don't think that's the big problem.

But the electrical connections will be a real pita i think.

Looking at the board it looks like a lot of these connections are ground. Couldn't I just bridge those all to the same ground or does it not work that way in the PCI slot

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wow..... now that's a real shame...

There are about 20 connections to be made so i think it's going to be a real problem to fix that. For the glue i would take an old card, break it into pieces and try several types of glue.
There must be something on the market that really makes it strong again, so i don't think that's the big problem.

But the electrical connections will be a real pita i think.

Looking at the board it looks like a lot of these connections are ground. Couldn't I just bridge those all to the same ground or does it not work that way in the PCI slot

From the pictures I am looking at, it looks to me like maybe only the two at the very end are ground. The other ones like like they probably go to traces either on the opposite side of the board or to traces in between layers.

Don't bridge anything. You will probably fry the motherboard and maybe the card itself if you do that.

I don't think you will be able to glue on something that will work more then one insertion. Get a PCI extender slot and solder the missing lines to the extender.

So I was thinking maybe I could go this route and use one of these PCIe cables cut down top size for the required pins. Plus shorten it to a couple inches and then hopefully it will fold at the end shallow enough the card will set over it. Thoughts?

The only PCI risers I could find are right angles ones that wouldn't work in any of my cases.

If I cant get it to work which I really hope I can, then my next option is to make a display with it.
Crossing fingers it works, I would love to have it as a backup to the one I already have

That riser idea sounds scary, maybe those contacts are needed.

You could ask osckhar if he can fix it:
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He succesfully repaired Voodoo 5s for some people.