Hi. I've got an MSI K8N-SLI platinum, and a Club 3D Radeon X800XL card. The system runs fine, but something seens to be wrong!
When i unpacked the motherboard, i took a look at the SLI switch card, and removed it from the motherboard, and put it on again quickly. But seems like it won't fit right into it's slot, becase i can't cloase the latch again, and i can see about 70% of the gold finders on the size that's plugged in.
In the manual and on all other fotos, the gold fingers are hidden in the slot, and there seems to be a plenty of space between the other side of the switch card and the 2nd PCIe slot. On my motherboard, it looks like this:
http://memos.dk/sbn/sli-switch.jpg
When i first powered up the system, i was unable to boot, getting a DRAM init-error, but it didn't help changing the DIMMs. I tried to work a little with the SLI switch card again, and it booted! But something is wrong:
My POST screen says "PCIE VGA Link Width : X 8" as you can see here http://memos.dk/sbn/bios-x8.jpg
As you can see on the 1st picture, the card is inserted with the Non-SLI side into the slot, so it should be X16!!!
What is wrong? Are there any secret ways of making the SLI switch card fit into the slot or what? It's kinda driving me nuts, to see the X8 message in POST every time i boot my system!!!
Iv'e also used CPU-z, with the same result: http://memos.dk/sbn/pciex8.PNG
Please help me!
When i unpacked the motherboard, i took a look at the SLI switch card, and removed it from the motherboard, and put it on again quickly. But seems like it won't fit right into it's slot, becase i can't cloase the latch again, and i can see about 70% of the gold finders on the size that's plugged in.
In the manual and on all other fotos, the gold fingers are hidden in the slot, and there seems to be a plenty of space between the other side of the switch card and the 2nd PCIe slot. On my motherboard, it looks like this:
http://memos.dk/sbn/sli-switch.jpg
When i first powered up the system, i was unable to boot, getting a DRAM init-error, but it didn't help changing the DIMMs. I tried to work a little with the SLI switch card again, and it booted! But something is wrong:
My POST screen says "PCIE VGA Link Width : X 8" as you can see here http://memos.dk/sbn/bios-x8.jpg
As you can see on the 1st picture, the card is inserted with the Non-SLI side into the slot, so it should be X16!!!
What is wrong? Are there any secret ways of making the SLI switch card fit into the slot or what? It's kinda driving me nuts, to see the X8 message in POST every time i boot my system!!!
Iv'e also used CPU-z, with the same result: http://memos.dk/sbn/pciex8.PNG
Please help me!
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