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Activating PCIe for a TV Card using Slot 2 or 6 if all other Slots are populated?

LDFiberman1
Level 7
Was wondering if anyone had an idea how to active a pci-e Hauppauge HVR-2250 TV Card on a ASUS R4BE Motherboard, using one of the pci-e express 16 slots?

I have an:
ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition Motherboard
Intel i7 4930
4- G,Skill F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH - Quad Memory
2- EVGA GTX 780Ti - SLI GPU’s - Slot 1 & 4
MultiTech 56K PCIe Modem - Slot 3
Creative X-Fi Titanium HD - Sound Card - Slot-5
Raid-0 Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD
Raid-0 Corsair GT 120GB SSD
XFX XPS-1050W Power Supply

I am not able to get windows to see the TV card if I install in either PCIe Slot 2 or 6.

I know on some of ASUS’s other motherboards you can install the TV Card in a PCIe 16 slot and it works great, but on this board I’m having issue activating this.

Any assistance on this would be appreciated.
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Necrosan
Level 12
The issue is the stupid Hauppauge cards don't work right when the PCIE speed ramps up from cards in adjacent slots. (Anything over 1x they freak out or if the pcie mode jumps to 2.0/3.0)

You need to keep the card in it's own non shared slot and set the PCIE mode for that slot to 1.0 only. (Your manual will indicate which slots are shared, same in the BIOS PCIE slot speed section.)

Hauppauge poorly designed their cards and this is what the result of that is.
MB: ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 (Cooled by Corsair H100i w/ Noctua NF-F12 fans)
RAM: 64GB G.SKILL RipjawsZ 1600 (10-10-10-30)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X Hybrid
TV Tuners: 2 * Hauppauge HVR-1800
Case: CoolerMaster Cosmos 2

Necrosan

Thank You for the information about the Hauppauge HVR-2250 Card. I was thinking it might be something else, or that this R4BE motherboard, was not able to populate all of the PCIe slots.

I have a Maximums VI Formula and was able to make all my devices work on it. The setup I used on it, was:
Slot 1 - Empty
Slot 2 - Evga GTX 780Ti
Slot 3 - MultiTech 56k Modem
Slot 4 - Evga GTX 780Ti
Slot 5 - Creative X-Fi Titinium HD Sound Card
Slot 6 - Hauppauge HVR-2250

I was really hoping to use this setup or hardware with this R4BE motherboard. :confused:

Necrosan
Level 12
Try moving the HVR-2250 to Slot 1 and in the BIOS force slot 1 speed to 1.0 only.
MB: ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 (Cooled by Corsair H100i w/ Noctua NF-F12 fans)
RAM: 64GB G.SKILL RipjawsZ 1600 (10-10-10-30)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX Titan X Hybrid
TV Tuners: 2 * Hauppauge HVR-1800
Case: CoolerMaster Cosmos 2