Gigabyte R9 270X not running in x16 slot but running in x4 slot

_larry · Jan 10, 2014

From my experience, Gigabyte boards are hit and miss. They make decent graphics cards, but the mobos are cheap for a reason...

Blue-Knight · Jan 10, 2014

_larry said:
They make decent graphics cards, but the mobos are cheap for a reason...

Gigabyte motherboards are probably the most durable available in the market.

I have my VM900M for more than 6 years (powered on for 16 hours a day, on average) and it is still alive with all the things working 100% while my friend's ASUS died at just 3 years old.

Not to mention I put this motherboard to "suffer" many times (which includes improper handling, extreme temperatures, overclocking, power surges, poor quality PSU, etc...).

eidairaman1 · Jan 10, 2014

read your motherboard manual to ensure you are inserting the video card properly into a PEG 16x slot and not a PCI e 4x slot (

kamransaeed15 · Jan 10, 2014

well if you read my first post issue is that its running in x4 slot but when i insert it in x16 slot it dont give any display

eidairaman1 · Jan 10, 2014

i still say read your manual for bios settings aswell, less you have a bunk motherboard/video card

Blue-Knight · Jan 10, 2014

eidairaman1 said:
i still say read your manual for bios settings aswell, less you have a bunk motherboard/video card

I agree, there can have something not configured properly. Who knows...

kamransaeed15 · Jan 13, 2014

today they checked my gpu and its working fine on other board
now what the hell is problem all other gpu are working on my mobo but not this gpu and this gpu is working on other motherboards but not on my mobo

micropage7 · Jan 13, 2014

if you have checked everything and the card works well on other board, the last maybe try borrow your friends vga card and test on your board
if it still run on 4x i guess the problem from your board

kamransaeed15 · Jan 13, 2014

micropage7 said:
if you have checked everything and the card works well on other board, the last maybe try borrow your friends vga card and test on your board
if it still run on 4x i guess the problem from your board

i tried 2 gpus on my board on x16 slot and they are running fine

Sasqui · Jan 13, 2014

kamransaeed15 said:
today they checked my gpu and its working fine on other board
now what the hell is problem all other gpu are working on my mobo but not this gpu and this gpu is working on other motherboards but not on my mobo

Needless to say, that's messed up. You RMA'd the MB?

kamransaeed15 · Jan 13, 2014

Sasqui said:
Needless to say, that's messed up. You RMA'd the MB?

no i took it to retailer to check and if found faulty rma it he tried 2 gpus on my board both run fine so he said mobi is fine with no fault so we cant claim its warrantty

Sasqui · Jan 13, 2014

kamransaeed15 said:
no i took it to retailer to check and if found faulty rma it he tried 2 gpus on my board both run fine so he said mobi is fine with no fault so we cant claim its warrantty

That's even more messed up. I wonder if he checked with GPUz that the other cards were running in the correct PCIe mode (x16 3.0)

kamransaeed15 · Jan 13, 2014

Sasqui said:
That's even more messed up. I wonder if he checked with GPUz that the other cards were running in the correct PCIe mode (x16 3.0)

yes they showed me the gpuz of both cards
even my own r9 270x was running fine in x16 when i plug it in x16 slot but took display from built in graphics and try to check if gpu is detected by os and found that gpuz of my gpu is giving all the details even its running at x16 3.0

kamransaeed15 · Jan 13, 2014

i am damn confused what the hell is going on even shopkeepers confused what going on with my hardware

suraswami · Jan 13, 2014

Did you try taking out the mobo from the case and placing on anti-static mat/bag and plug in your vga to see if it shows up? May be some kind of short to case?

kamransaeed15 · Jan 13, 2014

no i didnt

redeye · Jan 13, 2014

happened to me on a sabertooth 990fx... long story short, replace MB under warranty... (as i did) (but the top slot moved to 8x, then did not work, then the OBG audio stopped working)

eidairaman1 · Jan 14, 2014

kamransaeed15 said:
today they checked my gpu and its working fine on other board
now what the hell is problem all other gpu are working on my mobo but not this gpu and this gpu is working on other motherboards but not on my mobo

replace your motherboard

Sasqui · Jan 14, 2014

eidairaman1 said:
replace your motherboard

Or the graphics card...

kamransaeed15 · Jan 14, 2014

redeye said:
happened to me on a sabertooth 990fx... long story short, replace MB under warranty... (as i did) (but the top slot moved to 8x, then did not work, then the OBG audio stopped working)

it seems my mobo us culprit as now my intel onboard graphics is also not workig

Sasqui · Jan 14, 2014

kamransaeed15 said:
it seems my mobo us culprit as now my intel onboard graphics is also not workig

If that's the case, go back to the vendor and say "Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!" :rolleyes:

kamransaeed15 · Jan 14, 2014

Sasqui said:
If that's the case, go back to the vendor and say "Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!"

well i talked to him on phone regarding the issue he said bring your whole pc to us we will see whats wrong and if found mobo faulty we will replace it

eidairaman1 · Jan 14, 2014

They said they were baffled the first time... smh.

heky · Jan 14, 2014

Its not the mobo, nor is it the gpu. Its a UEFI incompatiblity issue between the uefi on your graphics card and the uefi on the motherboard. I had the same problem with my 7950 an my MSI mobo. Also had no video output in the x16 slot, but it worked with my friends nvidia 660Ti. So i tried my GPU in my friends Asus mobo and it worked. Thats how i found out it was a incompatibility. A later mobo bios fixed the issue. Write to gigabyte support, they will maybe send you a beta bios.

kamransaeed15 · Jan 14, 2014

i tried latest beta bios from their site that released in dec but no go also tried 2 other bios available but no go
i also think there is some incompatibilty issue

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Gigabyte R9 270X not running in x16 slot but running in x4 slot

_larry

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