Cannot get SLI working on 980's
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YouWhat
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The amount of lanes won't of been reached as it will be 8 x 8 x 0 on the 2 PCI-E slots, and with it being the MSI Gaming 9 board, it will be socket 1150.
To me after all you have done and eliminated so far, I still drawn to the idea of the SLi bridge, or something to do with that and the SLi fingers on card(s) for connecting.
It is strange and has got me confused as to what else it could be that causing it.
The amount of lanes won't of been reached as it will be 8 x 8 x 0 on the 2 PCI-E slots, and with it being the MSI Gaming 9 board, it will be socket 1150.
To me after all you have done and eliminated so far, I still drawn to the idea of the SLi bridge, or something to do with that and the SLi fingers on card(s) for connecting.
It is strange and has got me confused as to what else it could be that causing it.
I'm still confused as to why their very own gaming series GPUs dont fit in slots 1 and 2 of their own Gaming 9 Motherboard. From screenshots I cant see why he cant use them in slot 1/2 for 8/8 lanes
agreed. Though cant the motherboard just allocate the lanes to slot 1 and 3 instead of 1 and 2?
Also OP did you try it in your Mpower? I know I asked before, but you didnt reply.
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YouWhat
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Slot 3 will automatically put the card installed in that slot to 4x where as the primary will be at 8x
Excalabur50
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I don't have the Mpower anymore, and the ONLY way it seems to work is slot 1&2 so I think it's a bios issue that MSI need to change, and the card will fit but the fans will be touching the back of the other card and MSI told me NOT to try it as it may damage the cards.
My mates cards are working in SLI in 1&2 but will not work in 1&3
My mates cards are working in SLI in 1&2 but will not work in 1&3
I was going to suggest manually stopping the fans and then installing the cards, as these ships arent that hot and could prob go passive for a little while, then you could be 100% sure. But I guess your either going to have to return it or wait for MSI to make a Bios to rectify the issue, which could be quite some time me thinks.
YouWhat
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I wouldn't be so sure about that, as it seems to be effecting quite a few people, and if it is effecting that board, then it is likely impacting the whole range they are offering up in the Gaming series as they will more than likely be based off the same model board somewhere down the line, so will use a common base for the BIOS also.
Mysterae
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This is a classic case of departments within a company not communicating. To make a gaming motherboard incompatible with their own gaming graphics cards is an oversight and a lack of warning not good for loyal customers. If it was a non-MSI graphics card then it would be the onus of the customer to check and could be forgiven, but that is not the case here.
I wouldn't hold out for a bios update to rectify this as I'd have thought the PCEI x4 was a hardware limitation, and Nvidia aren't going to fix the incompatibility with PCEI x4 that's been around for years.
You did the right thing buy replacing the motherboard.
I wouldn't hold out for a bios update to rectify this as I'd have thought the PCEI x4 was a hardware limitation, and Nvidia aren't going to fix the incompatibility with PCEI x4 that's been around for years.
You did the right thing buy replacing the motherboard.
Kaapstad
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+1
One wonders whose motherboards they use to test their cards with, perhaps Asus or Gigabyte give them a discount.
