I have an Asus P5N-E-SLI motherboard which has 2 PCIEx16 and 1 PCIEx1 slots. One of the x16 slots (blue) has my video card in it. The x1 slot has a PCIE 2.0 hard drive controller. I just purchased a USB 3.0 controller which is also x1. Since there is only one x1 slot, I put it into the other x16 slot (black), with no response. I tried the HD controller in the x16 slot and it, too, did not work. The video card is too wide to try in the black x16 slot to test if the slot is bad but nothing seems to work in the black x16 slot.
My understanding is that I CAN put a x1 card into a x16 slot and it should work, correct? If that is the case, is there some setting somewhere that has the black x16 slot disabled? I looked through the BIOS but there is only an Enable or Disable setting for USB, with no distinction between slots.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
My understanding is that I CAN put a x1 card into a x16 slot and it should work, correct? If that is the case, is there some setting somewhere that has the black x16 slot disabled? I looked through the BIOS but there is only an Enable or Disable setting for USB, with no distinction between slots.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.