thx for your support p337miner!
unfortunately one of my new graphic cards is broken. Therefore I cannot test it atm, because the other 5 cards are finding a lot of shares and I don't want to quit the miner xD
do you know how many cards are usable atm? is the limit still 8 or is it now possible to connect more? I was reading that windows has a limit of 8 at all and especially a maximum of 8 cards of the same model.
if I would like to connect more I have to use linux. is this correct so far?
Why I am asking:
I bought today a pic-e 1x to 4x riser card... xD it would be nice to get it up and running. the m.2 slot is unfortunately only for another ssd and cannot be used as a pci-e slot.
I also have a Gigabyte mobo, not your model, but I spent the same amount of time trying to get pcie slots to recognise a MSI 1060 or recognising the gpu. The only way I've gotten it to work was option 2. I talked to a tech friend who has lots of mining experience about why the board is picky in that way and he said it must have something internally about the way the mobo chipset assigns the pcie lanes. The only thing I can think of in your case is that it won't assign lanes to the 16x if the others are filled first. This explanations makes no sense to me - because I literally tried everything to get mine set up, but there must be some logic behind why it will only recognise them in a particular order/assigns them. What order is anyone guess.
In my experience, I always fill the 16x first, then fill the others. The first GPU plugged straight into the mobo - then if you're lucky swap it out for a riser and it should still be ok. If not - my only other guess is that the riser cards have some compatibility or recognition issue on the mobo.
this was also my guess. I started with the x16 as well - directly plugged in the graphic card into the MB - but unfortunately nothing happened.
I tried this with 4 different cards (3 different manufacturers).
Hope this helps - also let us know if you've fixed it I want to know how you got it to recognise because I want that board.
I will definitely give you feedback... but the strange thing is still that other guys do not have a single problem with the MB and 6 graphic cards. They plugged the cards in and it worked...