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Rampage 4 Black: PCie slot #3 iusse!

Alex_D
Level 7
I'm having troubles with my Rampage 4 Black. I'm using this mobo from a month now, and it always worked great even under extreme oc bench tests.

Problems came when i bought another gpu [Asus 780ti DCII] for sli.

Making long story short: the third Pcie slot doesn't work properly: if i place a vga there it crashes the system [reboot, BSoD].

It doesn't matter if it's a single vga or a sli config (which works perfectly using slots 1 and 2 .. but #2 is 8x only) .. if you place a vga in #3 system become instable.

Just wondering if somene else ever experimented something similar and if could be a software iusse rater than hardware.. somethign i can fix somehow withouth RMA.

Thank you very much and have a nice day.
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Melting_Point
Level 10
Check to make sure the PCIe Lane switch for slot 3 isn't turned off.

Also, visually inspect the socket for slot 3, make sure there's no crap on the connectors.
Motherboard: RIVE (3602 bios)
CPU: Intel 3930K @4646MHz
OS Drive: 2 X Samsung 840 PRO (Raid 0)
Storage Drive: 2 X 1.5TB WD Caviar Black RAID 0, 2 X 3TB WD Caviar Red, Kingston V100 256GB SSD
Memory: 64GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z (F3-12800CL10Q2-64GBZL)
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX580 @795MHz - 1536MB GDDR5
PSU: OCZ ZX1250
Cooling: Phantek PH-TC14PE
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64. (EUFI)

Alex_D
Level 7
The swich is on; the yellow led lights up too when you place a vga there.
And the system boots correctly.

Point is at the time that Vga (s) has to work [game, benchmark..everything takes vga out of idle state] you get BSoD.

And as far as i can see there is nothing on connectors..

Melting_Point
Level 10
In you OP, when you said "if you place a vga in #2 system become instable", was that a typo? Did you mean slot #3?
Motherboard: RIVE (3602 bios)
CPU: Intel 3930K @4646MHz
OS Drive: 2 X Samsung 840 PRO (Raid 0)
Storage Drive: 2 X 1.5TB WD Caviar Black RAID 0, 2 X 3TB WD Caviar Red, Kingston V100 256GB SSD
Memory: 64GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z (F3-12800CL10Q2-64GBZL)
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX580 @795MHz - 1536MB GDDR5
PSU: OCZ ZX1250
Cooling: Phantek PH-TC14PE
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64. (EUFI)

Alex_D
Level 7
Yes it was 😉 I ment #3. [Edited now].

Melting_Point
Level 10
Ok, have you tried both you 780ti cards in slot 3?
Motherboard: RIVE (3602 bios)
CPU: Intel 3930K @4646MHz
OS Drive: 2 X Samsung 840 PRO (Raid 0)
Storage Drive: 2 X 1.5TB WD Caviar Black RAID 0, 2 X 3TB WD Caviar Red, Kingston V100 256GB SSD
Memory: 64GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z (F3-12800CL10Q2-64GBZL)
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX580 @795MHz - 1536MB GDDR5
PSU: OCZ ZX1250
Cooling: Phantek PH-TC14PE
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64. (EUFI)

Alex_D
Level 7
Yeah. I tried a gtx680 too just to be sure: same thing. Vgas work noramlly in every other slot.. but if you use #3 it's like system itself becomes instable.. BSoD and random reboots..

Arne_Saknussemm
Level 40
Any chance of substituting the CPU? at the end of the day it's more likely board but PCIe controler is on CPU and can give that behaviour too. As is so often the case it might come down to either.. so substituting is always a good idea if possible...

Have you tried clearing CMOS after reseating the CPU?

Melting_Point
Level 10
God damn it Arne, I was just about to say that. 😄
Motherboard: RIVE (3602 bios)
CPU: Intel 3930K @4646MHz
OS Drive: 2 X Samsung 840 PRO (Raid 0)
Storage Drive: 2 X 1.5TB WD Caviar Black RAID 0, 2 X 3TB WD Caviar Red, Kingston V100 256GB SSD
Memory: 64GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z (F3-12800CL10Q2-64GBZL)
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX580 @795MHz - 1536MB GDDR5
PSU: OCZ ZX1250
Cooling: Phantek PH-TC14PE
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64. (EUFI)

Arne_Saknussemm
Level 40