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Hey guys,
I have been fighting this for the last 5 hours and I finally had to throw in the towel and post here hoping for some suggestions.
Here's the hardware:
MSI X99S GAMING 9 ACK (latest BIOS installed)
6850K CPU
2 x G.SKILL Trident Z 3200-14-14-14
4 x MSI 1080Ti Sea Hawk EK X
1 x Samsung 950 PRO M.2 512GB
Here's a pic of the rig:
As you can see, there are only 4 cards installed in slots E1, E2, E4 and E5.
However, a run down of what BIOS believes is installed in the slots shows the following:
PCI_E1 running at x8:
PCI_E2 running at x8:
PCI_E3 running at x8: WFT, there is nothing in this slot!
PCI_E4 running at x16: Why? This should be running at x8
PCI_E5 running at x8:
PCI settings as follows (believe, my have tried everything under the sun here, but nothing changes the above readings):
Oh yeah, and the 950 PRO does not show up here: (nor did it show up in the board explorer pics above)
But it does show up here:
Integrated Peripherals settings are all left at default:
Setting this made booting into the Win10 install already on the 950 not work:
So, with WHQL support disabled, I'm able to boot into Windows, but within a few minutes, things get unstable and I'm not able to save anything to the 950 in the M.2 slot.
Also, I'm completely unable to boot into Ubuntu from a USB stick. Stick works just fine in just about every other rig I have.
So wtf is going on? Defective X99 mobo?
Should I rip out 3 of the 1080Ti's? Really don't want to as everything has been leak tested at this point.
I have been fighting this for the last 5 hours and I finally had to throw in the towel and post here hoping for some suggestions.
Here's the hardware:
MSI X99S GAMING 9 ACK (latest BIOS installed)
6850K CPU
2 x G.SKILL Trident Z 3200-14-14-14
4 x MSI 1080Ti Sea Hawk EK X
1 x Samsung 950 PRO M.2 512GB
Here's a pic of the rig:
As you can see, there are only 4 cards installed in slots E1, E2, E4 and E5.
However, a run down of what BIOS believes is installed in the slots shows the following:
PCI_E1 running at x8:
PCI_E2 running at x8:
PCI_E3 running at x8: WFT, there is nothing in this slot!
PCI_E4 running at x16: Why? This should be running at x8
PCI_E5 running at x8:
PCI settings as follows (believe, my have tried everything under the sun here, but nothing changes the above readings):
Oh yeah, and the 950 PRO does not show up here: (nor did it show up in the board explorer pics above)
But it does show up here:
Integrated Peripherals settings are all left at default:
Setting this made booting into the Win10 install already on the 950 not work:
So, with WHQL support disabled, I'm able to boot into Windows, but within a few minutes, things get unstable and I'm not able to save anything to the 950 in the M.2 slot.
Also, I'm completely unable to boot into Ubuntu from a USB stick. Stick works just fine in just about every other rig I have.
So wtf is going on? Defective X99 mobo?
Should I rip out 3 of the 1080Ti's? Really don't want to as everything has been leak tested at this point.