I went into a tty to attempt to install the nvidia drivers from nvidia's site. I was bombarded with tons of error messages
pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e4(Receiver ID)
[21060.479131] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: device [8086:9d14] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
[21060.480671] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: [ 0] Receiver Error (First)
[21061.574531] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=00e4(Receiver ID)
[21061.578788] pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: device [8086:9d14] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
It kept spamming this all over.