Enabling PCIE slot

HayyeZ

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Dec 11, 2014
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Hi, Just received a sound card as a gift from a friend but after having trouble installing the drivers ive found that my all other PCIE slots are disabled when using a gpu in any other slot.

is there a way of getting around this, ive looked in my manual and cant see anything helpful.
Motherboard is an Asrock z97m OC edition with an i7 4790k.
So at the minute i have a gtx 1060 in the top PCIE 1 slot and the only other slot the sound card will fit is PCIE 4 at the bottom
The soundcard is a Soundblaster Zx

Any help is much appreciated
Thanks
 

Rogue Leader

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Unfortunately its because of how those slots are connected to your CPU because they are GPU slots.

What you need to use is the small black PCIE2 slot for the card, but of course it won't fit there with a GPU installed.

You can try installing your GPU into PCIE 3 and then the sound card in the PCIE 2 slot that may work.

otherwise you may want to get a slot extension like this

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/162212864248?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true

 
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