Asrock B150 K4 Gaming Motherboard Incompatible with x16 PCI-E Graphics Card

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blackopsrngr666

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So recently (Feb 2016) I purchased the B150 K4 Gaming Motherboard. Upon running games the graphics have always been slow when running at "Optimized" settings using the Gaming Evolved App. (This was with both an R9 380 Nitro and an R7 240) running Star Wars: The Old Republic and Guild Wars 2.
I kept having "memory Management exception" issues or AMD driver crashes and Debuggers pointed to NT kernel driver as the failing component. I ran Memtest for 24hrs thinking it was bad ram but no issues. I changed powersupplies to a 750W Modular Corsair in case there were power fluctuations.
So I decided to research the B150 Chipset (http://ark.intel.com/products/90592/Intel-GL82B150-PCH) and it states that it is compatible with "Max # of PCI Express Lanes: 8" the graphics card box states that it requires an x16 slot and the motherboard manufacturer states that this motherboard can do that. http://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/fatal1ty%20b150%20gaming%20k4/
Am I mistaken in that the B150 Cannot handle x16 or am I missing something?
Any other ideas what may be causing the crashes?
 
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Viking2121
Display driver uninstaller will help http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

1) Download the AMD driver here and save it to your desktop for later. http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

2) After you have everything downloaded, Unplug or disable your network adaptor (this will prevent windows from downloading a generic driver which could cause problems)

3) Use Display Driver Uninstaller to remove anything related to AMD, if you have had a Nvidia card but never removed the drivers, it will pick them up as well, uninstall them, I recommend that you do this all in safemode. Then reboot to normal mode.

4) Right click on the AMD Driver and Run as Administrator, and follow the steps, Avoid the Gaming...
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Zerk2012

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It will run a single card at X16 speed, delete that app would be the first thing I would do the R7 240 is nothing near a gaming video card.
Delete your video driver, run a driver sweeper and install a different version of the driver form AMD.
 
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Display driver uninstaller will help http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

1) Download the AMD driver here and save it to your desktop for later. http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

2) After you have everything downloaded, Unplug or disable your network adaptor (this will prevent windows from downloading a generic driver which could cause problems)

3) Use Display Driver Uninstaller to remove anything related to AMD, if you have had a Nvidia card but never removed the drivers, it will pick them up as well, uninstall them, I recommend that you do this all in safemode. Then reboot to normal mode.

4) Right click on the AMD Driver and Run as Administrator, and follow the steps, Avoid the Gaming Evolve app if you think this is causing you issues. It should be in the custom options during the install.

5) Reboot the system, even if it dosn't ask you to, do it anyway

This is how I always uninstall and reinstall drivers if they are giving me or my clients issues and it always seems to work.

Any modern CPU will handle at the vary least 1 card at x16 speeds, the bottom slot will be at x4 speeds due to how that slot is wired, no matter what the CPU is, so keep the card in the top slot and it should work just fine at x16 3.0 speeds.

 
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