I am under the impression there may be more than one bios setting that works so I can only tell you what I have. I just copied it from my previous post since I am feeling lazy lol.
"First thing I did was the bios update to 810 then enable '4G decoding'. I started the bios setting at gen2 for all without success and then gen1 for all without any success. I then tried leaving everything on auto and just setting the pcie configuration on gen1 and all seven cards were recognized. After all the video cards were seen, I didn't try adjusting the setting at all. It took a weekend to get my rig up and running I didn't want to test to see if there were gains to be made from setting anything on gen1 or gen2.
I am also using the blue 006C version. Odd thing is the first eight I ordered from Amazon came with the little tabs that lock the riser on the card but the second time I ordered it, it came without the tabs but seems to fit much tighter on the card. They are both working fine though. I ordered the second set thinking it was the risers that was causing the original problem but that wasn't it.
On a side note my two MSI Armor Geforce GTX 1070 OC Edition 8GB seems to run the hottest at 60-64 degrees. Others are in the 50-55 range."
I currently have two rigs. Both using same hardware with the only difference being 8 cards on one rig and the 6 cards on the other. All 14 cards are GTX 1070. Same bios settings and not powering the m.2 adapter on the rig with 8 cards. I didn't see a need for it as power is being provided to the riser and the gpu.