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Topic: Can't install GPUs on 1x slot (Read 1236 times)

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September 08, 2012, 06:40:55 PM
#12
Test each slot and the extender ribbons individually to make sure all of them work. If they all work find individually, it might be a motherboard limitation in how the BIOS is coded, or bad drivers from ATI.
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September 07, 2012, 07:44:14 AM
#11
Nope... that is on the agenda for this weekend... Will update when I try it. Visiting the girlfriend a couple hours away though so I probably won't get to it till sunday. Sucks, cause I have 2 or 3 cards just laying around at the moment.

Also picking up a board/cpu/and ram for $45 this weekend so that should be remedied no matter what!

Thanks guys
legendary
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September 07, 2012, 01:13:42 AM
#10
Did you ever try shorting PCI-E presence pins?
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September 06, 2012, 11:25:27 PM
#9
I finally had to repair windows... I feel like I have to repair windows 7 every month or so... I guess I'm switching out hardware pretty often but I hope windows 8 improves in this arena.

Anyways, still can't get the 1x slots to work but I will try researching it a little.

Shot in the dark, try disabling onboard audio/usb 3 ports/raid controllers?
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September 06, 2012, 11:09:13 PM
#8
I finally had to repair windows... I feel like I have to repair windows 7 every month or so... I guess I'm switching out hardware pretty often but I hope windows 8 improves in this arena.

Anyways, still can't get the 1x slots to work but I will try researching it a little.
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September 06, 2012, 06:36:51 PM
#7
On my older gigabyte motherboard I have to jumper a couple of pins on the pcie slot to get gpus recognized.
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September 06, 2012, 06:31:48 PM
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So now I can't get 12.8 to work either... Everything installs but the drivers... I have the original setup that was working this morning... 2x 5850s and I can't get drivers to install at all.

Anybody know some good driver sweeping programs?
Atiman
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September 06, 2012, 06:25:03 PM
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So now I can't get 12.8 to work either... Everything installs but the drivers... I have the original setup that was working this morning... 2x 5850s and I can't get drivers to install at all.

Anybody know some good driver sweeping programs?
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September 06, 2012, 05:01:00 PM
#4
I have it powered with the 16x to 1x riser... And whatever additionaly pci-e power cords are required based on card...

I uninstalled 12.6 and I am installing 12.8 now to see if that works... I have a 5850 in the 16x slot and a 5970 in a 1x slot to test.
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September 06, 2012, 04:35:50 PM
#3
Should also mention I'm using catalyst 12.6 drivers.

I'm assuming that you have it powered correctly with a ribbon cable? 
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September 06, 2012, 03:22:45 PM
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Should also mention I'm using catalyst 12.6 drivers.
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September 06, 2012, 03:16:35 PM
#1
Hey guys

I have a gigabyte 890gp-ud3h motherboard and I cannot instill gpus on the 1x slots... Doesn't matter the GPU or how many are in the comp... If one card is being used in 1 pci-e 1x slot the computer will boot but I cannot install drivers for the cards(using ati)...


Maybe I'm doing something stupid... But even with 2 cards in the 16x slots... If I add a card to any of the 1x slots... It isn't recognized.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
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