Thank you very much for your quick responses and effort @ricklinux and @dalto! It was in fact a hardware issue for whatever reason.
As “last ditch least amount of effort try for a fix”, I removed the power plug and made sure the pc was completely current free. Booted up the most recent linux release and it works again.
I presume that while the card had power and was working, it might have been in some kind of deadlock or invalid state and would not reset on a normal reboot.
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