Computer doesn't recognize my video card after I moved it to a new PCIe slot?

[Jesse Custer]

So I recently installed a new water cooler for my CPU... while installing the water cooler, I decided to move my GPU to a lower PCIe slot on the motherboard.

Now that I'm finished with the installation my computer doesn't seem to recognize my video card. I'm stuck in lower resolutions, and in device manager it only lists my onboard graphics.

Everything was working fine w/ the video card just prior to me moving it to a lower PCIe slot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


I read that I may have to designate the new PCIe slot as my default for the video card in Bios, but I couldn't find anywhere to do that in my Bios... I kind of have a funky Bios that comes with the "MSI Z97 Gaming 7" mobo...

 

[i7Baby]

check it's locked into the slot (hopefully x 8 or x16) and the power supply is connected properly.

Do a clean driver re-install.

 

[Outlander_04]

The lower slot on most boards is paired with the top one for SLI or crossfire .

Move it back to the one closest to the cpu and it will work again

 

[Jesse Custer]

So it's detecting the video card in device manager, it just has no drivers.

I've been trying to install the up to date drivers but during the process it says installation failed, failed to install driver software... I even tried updating the driver software to an older version. No good.

any idea?


I don't really want to move it back up because it crowds the middle of the case and the cpu...

There are 3 PCIe slots on the mobo and I moved it from the top one to the middle one, which probably is a SLI/Crossfire slot but I didn't really think that would matter... Won't either of them work for using a single GPU?

 

[i7Baby]

Did you uninstall the old drivers first?

 

[Outlander_04]

There is NO chance the card can get full bandwidth in the second slot . The second slot may only be activated when there is a card already in the top slot

Move the card back the problem goes away

There is NO fix for leaving it in the lower slot . None at all

 

[Jesse Custer]

Ok well thanks for the info!
I moved it back to the highest slot and it works again. So I guess that's as good as a fix as I'm gonna get

That's pretty lame that I don't have a choice of which of the 3 slots I can use for a single GPU...
GPU sits so akward on the case its right in the middle... seems like it cuts off airflow, crowds my water cooler tubes and crowds the CPU... Case would be so much more freeflowing with a huge empty space in the middle with the video card lower... :/

Anyways... Thanks for the info and help both of ya's.