Maybe I am in the minority, but I always pull the CMOS battery any time I remove or reinstall hardware on the motherboard. A reset BIOS and fresh component handshakes are a good way to avoid hardware conflicts like the ones you are describing.
Sure, you have to get back in and re-enable things like XMP, resizeable BAR, set your m.2 PCIe speeds and fan curves again, but hung settings in a confused BIOS config will have you chasing your tail, Googling blue screen crash codes, and removing and reinstalling drivers for hours, with little to no improvement.