skaterscott007

I appreciate the try.

I have a 1TB wd blue hhd that I picked up for $20 and I plugged it in to my pc, but it wont show up. It shows up in the bios as a bootable device, but doesn't show up in files or disk manager. I've tried changing sata data and power cable, but nothing. I also have Toshiba 120GB ssd as a boot drive that doesn't show up in the bios as a bootable device. I've tried moving the sata data cables around on the board and nothing changes. I seen on YouTube to try and do a system memory diagnoses, but that didn't work either.

That makes sense.

My main concern is that I want to increase the amount of pci-e slots on my motherboard, but not sure if installing a four way pci-e spliter card will work. I want to know if I can plug in a four way pci-e adapter and run multiple pci-e accessories off of one pci-e slot. Will the motherboard know that there's more than one card attached?

Say I can bifurcate the pci-e slot, how do I know if I can? How rare is it for boards from 2013? How can I increase the amount of pci-e slots available? what would you do in my scenario? Is there a way to tap in to the data lanes from sata ports?

I wanted to know if I can use a graphics card on the same pci-e slot as a WiFi card? I have a A55BM-A/M32BF/DP_MB motherboard with one pci-e 3.0 slot with a MSI 960 4gb and was wondering if you can run different pci-e accessories off of one pci-e slot. I want to add a WiFi card to my system without replacing the motherboard. I was looking at the four way pci-e adapters you can get for mining and wanted to know if you can run many different pci-e accessories off of the same original slot. If so how would the bandwidth be affected using the (1x) to 4(16x) adapters.