I haven't posted much, if at all on this forum and this thing is driving me nuts. Please bear with me, this might be poorly written as I'm quite exhausted from running from store to store for help.
I recently purchased a new processor (i5 4670K) and mobo (MSI Z87-G45 Gaming) to fit it in since my old rig seemed to bottleneck my HD7950 graphics card (Gigabyte Windforce 3x).
It didn't boot at the start. It didn't even post and my monitor did not seem to get any signal.
After a lot of tinkering, reseating, and cussing I got it to boot with the GFX card in the 2nd slot. Installed win7 and got the drivers running. To my own detriment it only ran on 8x PCI3.
After another long episode of tinkering I managed to try a different, older graphics card (HD5xxx) which booted fine from the start but only supported PCIe 2.0. I tested yet another card (HD7750) in PCIe 3.0 mode and it ran fine.
I finally set the 1st 16x slot to PCIe 2.0 and was able to boot and run stable with my own graphics card.
I honestly have no idea if my brand new mobo is faulty or my 7months old HD7950 is...
I'd really appreciate some help.
Edit: I forgot to mention I flashed the BIOS to v1.6 in an attempt to remedy this.
I recently purchased a new processor (i5 4670K) and mobo (MSI Z87-G45 Gaming) to fit it in since my old rig seemed to bottleneck my HD7950 graphics card (Gigabyte Windforce 3x).
It didn't boot at the start. It didn't even post and my monitor did not seem to get any signal.
After a lot of tinkering, reseating, and cussing I got it to boot with the GFX card in the 2nd slot. Installed win7 and got the drivers running. To my own detriment it only ran on 8x PCI3.
After another long episode of tinkering I managed to try a different, older graphics card (HD5xxx) which booted fine from the start but only supported PCIe 2.0. I tested yet another card (HD7750) in PCIe 3.0 mode and it ran fine.
I finally set the 1st 16x slot to PCIe 2.0 and was able to boot and run stable with my own graphics card.
I honestly have no idea if my brand new mobo is faulty or my 7months old HD7950 is...
I'd really appreciate some help.
Edit: I forgot to mention I flashed the BIOS to v1.6 in an attempt to remedy this.
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