Do motherboards have a limitation on RAM of multiple GPUs attached to them?

Majidak

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I have a MSI Z77A-GD80 motherboard and want to attach 5 VGA cards to it for mining. When I attach 3 of them - Sapphire R9 280X - to the motherboard, it boots fine. But, when I add the fourth one to it, it doesn't boot at all, and the debug LED on it shows 92. According to the manual, this error code relates to "PCI bus initialization".
When I add a VGA card with low RAM - 128MB - as the forth card, it boots fine. I guess this problem is related to the VGA RAM limit of the motherboard. How can I find this limit and how can I raise it?

Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD80
CPU: Celeron G1620
PSU: 2x Corsair 850
Ram: Kingston 4GB
 
I don't think there is a limitation of how many GPU's can be in windows. But that mobo could possible limit you from having 5 GPU's. RAM limitation is somewhere in the higher GB limit, should not be 128mb.

Did you try a 64bit OS?

I think that board could possibly be shutting down a PCI-E lane when 4 cards are installed, preventing the 5th from working. I could be wrong, I have never really messed with that board.