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That power connector is not supposed to hang loose in the air. Check the handbook for the mainboard to find out where it's supposed to connect to.
The 6-pin connector? That very much looks OK to me. I don't see where it would go.
However there's disconnected 2 pins on the graphics card.
That gpu looks like it only has 6 pins, not 8, so it could be fine.
It looks to me like that's a 6+2 connector and they only needed the 6-pin so the +2 is just left dangling, which afaik is fine.
I saw 8 solder blobs, but I'm not sure if it's actually an 8 pin anymore.
Oh, yeah, okay, good point. I didn't notice the solder. I'm not sure if it's actually a six pin anymore. I have zero clue how an 8 pin GPU would react to only having 6 pins.
If you look closely on the upper picture in this reply, you can see, that there is only a 6-pin connector, the 2 extra soldering points are unused.
Looking at the Asrock product page, there is only an additional 8-pin-connector at the top left, no ~~4~~ 6-pin.
It's plugged in. I believe those are extra for something else thar he ziptied to the graphics connection. Here are a couple images.
It's fine. The PCI-e is another one for a graphics card that requires more connectors to be attached.