PCI-e issue (1x instead of 16x)

My video card is running at 1x instead of 16x .. no idea why. I've done all the updates, rechecked settings, searched the web, and I have not found a solution. I have found lots of the same issue out there though. My system is nothing fancy and really shouldn't require anything heavy duty to run in my opinion. Here's the information I think is relevant, let me know if you need more info.

Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R

http://www.gigabyte.us/Support/Mot [...] uctID=2534

Video Card: XFX Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT

http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/prod [...] 600GT.aspx

Chassis (stock PSU): APEVIA X-QPACK2 Aluminum Case w/ 3 Window-Blue

http://www.apevia.com/ProductsInfo [...] CK2-BL/500

The two posts that have given me any clue lol

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=522

Ozworth's post, third from bottom:

http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index [...] &subpage=1


Here's some screenshots that may help:





I am baffled, any input would be greatly appreciated.

Backed off to driver 181.20 which is what XFX is using, reseated video card...Still 1x

First, its PCIe, not PCIx. PCIx is something found on server boards, and is closer to PCI. Its a parallel bus like PCI, but transfers at 100/133MHz instead of PCI's 33MHz.

Second, Mactronix is wrong, as GPUz says its running at "PCI-E x16 @ x1". I'm not sure why this is happening, read your manual and see if there are any bios settings that need to be adjusted.

I had a 4870 do that to me... i put in an 8800 gts 640 that it replaced to see if it was the mb or the vid card.

the gts read 16x so i rma'd the 4870 got a new one and evthing was fine... it was just a bad card.

i would suggest putting in your old vid card to see if thats the prob.

hope this helps

As I understand things, thats internal for the card. It still has a 128bit memory bus with the clock speeds all what they should be. Internal for the card, its running as it should. For whatever reason, its not running on the 16x bus.

I have no idea why this is. Might be a bad card like rberry suggested, but I doubt that. Might be your horrible branded PSU not feeding it enough power so its throttling down, but I doubt that as well. (the 8600GT doesn't use a lot of power.) Could be a bad bios for either the card or the motherboard, this is likely. If your card requires the 6pin PCIe plug, did you do that?