Well I just completely f****d my board doing this.

Removed the resistor, went to re-solder in the slot below but could not get it to stick, now I have lost any metal to metal contact where the solder was for both the original spot and where it was meant to go. I got a hot glue gun and put it back in to place where it was originally. One PCI-e lane is dead and I can only boot with 1 stick of RAM. lol... that will teach me.

I wonder how far into the RMA process it will get before being rejected.