While I was installing my new power supply, I was also going the extra mile and seeing if I could realign/pop out the new video card and make things more streamline. Well, here are the problems:
-It seems that there's much blocking the brace-lock of the PCI-E card slot ranging from the card itself to a motherboard capacitor. Nothing can reach, nor trigger it
-While I was tweaking with it to re-fit things, I accidentally peeled the plugging of the SATA cord that links my larger hard drive to the motherboard. It was pinned under the graphics card, but freed in a rather violent manner. Took me a good 15 minutes with tweezers to get the plug part out.
-There are still some really stubborn wiring that I can't do anything about so tie that in with the graphics card's own stubborness as well as the fact that it also obscures one of the screws for the motherboard, it is essentially hard-wired into the motherboard. The only other method of removal (if I plan on going to a larger case) may be a little rough.
On the bright side however:
-I have managed to realign all the pins in the frayed-ish SATA cable plug (it was just the pins in a rather bent fashion, no case; a good 15-20 minutes were spent straightening them and mimicking the other end), plug it back into it's case, use same tweezers to hard-pin them back into their slots in the casing, and re[plug it in (risky endeavor), it worked. But still, to be safe, I'll have to replace that cable.
-It works (all files, the entire drive, and everything works; not a dent in the fender), it's just that I shouldn't nudge it (the end cap) by any means next time I poke around the inside of my machine, despite it finally being freed and in a much better position/slot.
-Fortunately, the part is the cheapest replacement for my machine thus far.
EDIT:
Sneaky Happiness: I feel like MacGuyver with how, and how well I temporarily repaired my SATA cable. I thought I was screwed for sure. And despite my internet connection being screwed as well, a bit of quick thinking after the SATA fix, I fixed my connection as well rather quickly.