PCIE Slot saying "Empty"

I recently upgraded my pc with a GTX 970 card. It worked fine for a few days and now my PCIE slot says that it's empty. But my old AMD card is fine. I don't understand as this happened after installing anew ssd drive and restarting my pc.
the card lights up fine and the fans spin as they should.
could it be a dead pci slot?
my specs are
intel i5 4690k
8gb corsair vengeance
gtx 970 :( kinda
2 x 240gb ssd drives
tb hard drive
windows 8.1

nope, before the pc would black screen after plugging in the SSD, turned on AHCPI (i think) in bios and it all worked fine. restarted pc. nothing. i just plugged my old amd card back in and it seems all drivers are installed still. even though i removed the software, could this have something to do with it.
and yeah i reset the cmos and that didn't do anything. Starting to think it might be my board because the gtx didnt sit as comfortable as my amd r9 270x.
but it worked, i was literally gaming 2 hours ago.
i doubt its the card as I checked the pins on the pci connection bit on the card and they are all fine , they match my amd card. the card powers up fine. etc. just in bios it says empty.
updated to latest mobo firmware. I've just ordered a new MOBO and hope that sorts it, otherwise its £285 for a dud card which was purchased in a shop about 150 miles away.
any suggestions would be helpful.

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Originally posted by DaveB Can anybody from MSI give me a good and coherent reason as to why this practise exists and why isn't something done about it to make all 5 slots usable
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