GA-Z77X-D3H 16X PCIE 3.0 SLOT problems

[Ace28usa]

OK Its been YEARS since i built a new machine so i want this to work the way its supposed to .. ok i have a gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H motherboard ... the tom's hardware edition i also have a MSI HD 7870 Radeon card that is X16 and PCIE 3.0 ... now this mobo has onboard video and when i was booting up before disabling the onboard video i had no beep codes.. however once disabling the onboard video when i have my card inserted in the X16 pcie 3.0 slot (one nearest the cpu) i get a 1 long 2 short beep code ... i looked it up and it said that it was the video card so i shutdown and reseated the card powered back up.. still the beep code... now my mobo has 2 other PCIE slots one says 8X the other says 4X so i decided to move the card to the 8X slot to see what happens.. and it boots up no problems however .. this card is supposed to be a 3.0 X16 and call me crazy but i wanna get what i paid for .. ya know? so i went into the bios figuring i just had to enable the x16 slot to do this i set the "INIT DISPLAY FIRST" setting to PEG saved my changes rebooted/shutdown and moved the card back to X16 slot again 1 long 2 short beep code went back into bios after putting card back in 8x slot and noticed under the INIT DISPLAY FIRST setting is a Primary PEG with 4 options AUTO, PEG11,PEG12,PEG60 ive tried each and no go .. actually after selecting 2 of them when i reboot after saving changes of course i go back into BIOS and see that the changes had reverted back to default in regards to the PEG settings...I wentthrough the manual front to back and i never saw a mention of Primary PEG settings .. so not sure which to set it as ... if it helps my BIOS version is F16..

ive sifted through a bunch of topics on this board .. any help would be greatly appreciated sorry for the wall of text...

if anyone could clarify something for me too .. i understand PEG... BUT what is PEG11,PEG12,PEG60? does one of them in tech speak refer to the X16 slot? if so which? if i recall correctly it was PEG12 AND PEG60 that instantly revert my changes back to default settings ... however i only found that out by not immediately poweringdown and switching card to new slot.. rather i just powered back up and looked at bios to satisfy curiousity and i noticed that the changes had reverted to defaults... could thatve been due to me still have card plugged in and working on the X8 slot?

 

[alexoiu]

Hi,
PEG11 should be the 1st slot.
Now, regarding the issue, it might be a faulty slot or a CPU socket bent pins issue.

 

[Ace28usa]

thanks for the info ... will try PEG11 when i get home later ... bah this is the 2nd motherboard i have recieved from newegg .. the first one i could visibly see bent CPU socket pins and sent that motherboard back to them hope its not the same issue this time around i looked at the socket very closely and everything looked beautifull ... however the first one they sent me you could see 2 bent/broken socket pins very easily as they messed up the symmetry of the socket

 

[Ace28usa]

I set it to Peg11 and still the 1 long and 2 short beep code with no video happened to be inside tigerdirect today and the guy told me to bring my comp in said he would pop in a pcie 3.0 card into the slot so we could tell wether it was slot or card ... Is it likely to be an issue with the card or 100% definitely more likely to be slot/bent CPU socket pins issue?