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    PCI-E link width running at x8 instead of x16

    Is it possible that my motherboard only has x8 pci-e slots? It's an SLI board but I've never really wanted to use it for SLI, I just wanted a single x16 slot.
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    PCI-E link width running at x8 instead of x16

    Not as far as I can tell. All I saw was spread spectrum control, which only has the option for "Triangular Down", which I assume gives my computer downs and turns the tower into a pyramid, so I'm not going to mess with that. No, honestly I tried that setting and it didn't fix anything. The...
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    PCI-E link width running at x8 instead of x16

    I have an MSI MS-7390 motherboard and an EVGA Nvidia 9800 GTX+ videocard. When I check in CPU-Z and the nvidia system information, my PCI-E link width is only running at x8, not the x16 it's supposed to run at. This motherboard is PCI-E 1.0 or perhaps 1.1, it's not 2.0, so I'm taking a huge...
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    MSI MS-7390 won't flash bios

    I'm trying to use the MSI liveupdater to automatically flash my bios version 1.1 to version 1.2 but it won't detect that I need an update. I can't use a cd-rom, floppy disk or usb flash, I need to do it in windows. Any ideas?