tobiftw

bump

Hey guys, I have some weird graphics card issues on my board right now. Specs are: Optiplex 755 (Mid-tower) Motherboard(https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/opti_755_techspecs.pdf) PNY GT 730 1GB GDDR5(https://pny.com/gt-730-1024mb-gddr5) Intel Q6600 Processor (http://ark.intel.com/products/29765/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q6600-8M-Cache-2_40-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB)\ I've turned off all possible power-saving adjustments, both in the BIOS, and in the nvidia control center and windows power mangement. BIOS is pacthed to the latest version (A22) Nothing else is inside any other PCI-e slots If I'm missing anything else necessary to debug this, lmk. So here's my issue: my graphics card is running (according to GPU-z and nvidia inspector) at x1 speeds with gen 1.1, while it reports that it can run at x8 v1.1 speeds. Doing the common stress test on both GPU-z and 3d-benchmark doesn't help, it still stays at x1 speeds. Re-seating or cleaning the card/slot doesn't help either. According to this post with the same motherboard and similar graphics card http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/desktop/f/3515/t/19986614, it says that the Optiplex 755 MT's chipset and board doesn't recognize cards with x8 or x4 speeds and locks it at x1. This makes sense why it seems stuck at x1 speeds, since gpu-z and cpu-z say the max bandwidth my card reports is at x8. But the off-thing is that according to PNY, it's supposed to run at x16 v2 speeds, which makes me suspect that either the motherboard is reading the card wrong, or the card is reporting wrong speeds back to the motherboard. How can I get my motherboard to recognize my graphics card's F U L L P O T E N T I A L ? Thanks!