Can I still use my Sound Xonar STX with SLI? 2x GTX780's

[rvcjew]

Hi all If you look at this thread you will see that I have gotten another 780 and in SLI its fine and performance is too. My problem is now my motherboard will not see my pci-e x1 ASUS Xonar STX, in BIOS it says nothing is present and even if i put my second gpu in an non native slot. My question is is there something along of the lines of using non native slots and getting slightly slower performance but get my sound card to work once more, like changing what gen it uses or something. the pic below shows how my slots are set up and currently it is set to native SLI 2 way setup.




I have tried putting it in the slot above 4 and in 4 itself. The BIOS NB area says nothing is present in those areas. I have also tried putting it in B2 and using second gpu in slot 3. If need be I can get screens of the bios for you. My dip switch is also all set to on should I turn off the ones i'm not using?

Thanks for your time. Specs are as follows:

OS
Win 7 PRO x64, WIN 8.1 PRO x64
CPU
Intel i7 4770K @ 4.4Ghz
Motherboard
ASUS Maximus VI Extreme
Memory
32GB(4x8GB) DDR3 Team Xtreem 2666 @ 2400 CL10 10-12-12-31
Graphics Card(s)
2x MSI GTX 780 Twin Frozr OC 3GB
Sound Card
ASUS Xonar Essence STX
Monitor(s) Displays
ASUS PB278Q, HP 2311xi, 1080p tv
Screen Resolution
1440p, 2x 1080p
Hard Drives
256GB 840 PRO SSD
10TB RAID 0 Array (Movies, Steam)
6TB RAID 1 Array (Backups, Documents)
3TB EXT Drive (Secure Backups)
PSU
AX760
Case
NZXT White Switch 810
Cooling
XSPC Raystorm, RES/Pump:XSPC Bay resD5, RAD:RX360 6xNF-P12's
Keyboard
RK-9000 W/MX Blue switches, Logitech G15 (gutted for LCD)
Mouse
G400

[Nate152]

Hello rvcjew

Try your 780's in slots A1 and A2 then add your sound card to the x4 slot next to lane 4.

Does this get your sound card to work?

[rvcjew]

Tried it but will try again and get back to you when available.

[rvcjew]

So i'm retarded lol I thought I had reset to defaults after each attempt but idk I must have been dreaming or something as I can get it to work in any slot now with gpu in native slots too so now they are in native and with sound thanks for all your advice, got my brain firing lol.

EDIT: also right after I post or go to the bottom of page why is go advanced in Spanish and it says ASUSVIP under my name lol.

[Nate152]

well all is good you got it working.

I have the Spanish words too and the asus vip is a security thing as I understand, as to show you are not a spammer.

[rvcjew]

Nate152 wrote:
well all is good you got it working.

I have the Spanish words too and the asus vip is a security thing as I understand, as to show you are not a spammer.

Ah ok, thanks for the help glad to be apart of the forums.