Second PCIe slot broken?

Ohnoezfail · 9 Sep 2013 at 16:15

Well, long story short is that my onboard audio jacks are physically broken :O

I purchased an Asus Xonar DGX as a nice replacement until my completely new build next year, popped it into my second PCIe 2.0 slot and it isn't detected, and my computer still runs the lanes at 16-0-1-1 instead of 8-8-1-1.

The top PCIe x1 slot works with the card, and everything is hunky dory besides the fact that I have to remove two of my memory modules for the card to fit.

The other x1 slot is blocked by my 460 gtx.

I have tried installing my 460 gtx into the second slot and I get no video signal even if nothing is plugged into the first slot. I have no extra GPU at the time to test out both at the same time.

My mobo is the 650NSLI-DS4L (old I know..)

Any ideas?

Drangueos · 9 Sep 2013 at 16:37

Did you check if on your bios you can change the pci-e settings?

Ohnoezfail · 9 Sep 2013 at 16:46

The only thing I can see that I could change is the frequency (standard is 100mhz) or the priority of the video card posting. [PCI, PEG, PEG(slot 2)]

I think this would be if I had multiple graphics cards though, I'm not sure. It would seem silly to have this option, where if change it and it turns out the slot doesn't work, you're blind until you reset the battery

But even then, it doesn't make sense that my x1 card wouldn't be picked up at all in that slot..

Oh, another thing to possibly mention is that the first time I seated my sound card into the second x16 slot, windows had a problem booting and I had to boot into safemode, but nothing else happened.

decto · 9 Sep 2013 at 20:46

If it's the board I'm thinking of then you have to manually change the configuration from 1x16 to 2x8 to get the second slot to work.

Should be several lines of jumpers under the top slot adjacent to the lower x1 PCI. These all need moving to the adjacent position to enable the second slot... proper old school classic!

Downloads page on gigabyte site, you need to the manual at the bottom of the page, not the quickstarts.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2679#manual

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