RevoDrive 350 PCI-E x8 in x16 slot

[dancole]

Hey all, hope you can help..

Recently purchased a RevoDrive 350 which has a "PCI Express Gen. 2 x8" interface

After reading other forum posts it seems i should have little trouble putting this into a 2.0 x16 slot but despite installing the drivers the revodrive isnt being recognized.

I have a GA-EX58-UD3R which has: "2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16
(The PCI Express slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)"

This should be compatible, what am I doing wrong, is the board too old?

Could the fact its ot being recognized be due to the fact the pci-e slot is 'running' at x16 do i need to change this to run x8 somehow in bios, is this possible?

Any help appreciated - have a great new years !
-Dan

revodrive:
http://ocz.com/consumer/revodrive-350-ssd/specifications

board:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2989#sp

 

[popatim]

Its shouldn't be a problem, If you've overclocked you will need to reset to stock clock as the revo may not be liking it.

As you know, The bios will not see this drive since it doesn't connect to the drive and Windows or Linux will need a driver to see it which is available at the link you supplied.

Does the OCZ firmware update see the drive?

If you have a graphics car in the first x16 slot, can you power off & unplug the pc and then swap locations and then
1: see if the gpu is working in slot2, and
2: see if the revo is detected in slot1 since we know that slot works

 

[dancole]

Perfect thankyou - I hadnt thought of that.

yes youre right by swapping my gfx card into the second pci- slot it didnt work. I also as a test loaded the revodrive into the other pci-e port and device manager picked up straight away.

thanks for you help appreciated