Risers not working?

[Jurassic]

Hi, I have an issue that is really stumping me. I have a MSI B450 -A pro max motherboard and for some reason I cannot get a graphics card to work with it through a riser. If I plug the graphics card directly into the motherboard, I get display and everything works fine. If I use a riser, the card lights up and the fans spin but the motherboard doesn't detect it. I've tried with 3 different graphics cards and 2 different brands of known working risers to rule that out. Is it perhaps a bios setting blocking the motherboard from using a graphics card when it's using a riser?

[Kazooduck]

13 minutes ago, Jurassic said:

Hi, I have an issue that is really stumping me. I have a MSI B450 -A pro max motherboard and for some reason I cannot get a graphics card to work with it through a riser. If I plug the graphics card directly into the motherboard, I get display and everything works fine. If I use a riser, the card lights up and the fans spin but the motherboard doesn't detect it. I've tried with 3 different graphics cards and 2 different brands of known working risers to rule that out. Is it perhaps a bios setting blocking the motherboard from using a graphics card when it's using a riser?

What graphics card? Please provide more specs

[Jurassic]

6 minutes ago, kamonanban said:

What graphics card? Please provide more specs

I've tried multiple cards now. An 8gb rtx 2070, 8gb r9 390, 11gb rtx 2080ti and an 11gb gtx 1080ti. All the same results. Work when connected directly to motherboard, but when connected via riser, the motherboard doesn't see them

[Heliian]

Try putting a ground wire from your card to the case.  The riser should just be an extension of the same pinouts as the slot.  

[--SID--]

PCI-e4.0 risers?

[Jurassic]

14 minutes ago, Heliian said:

Try putting a ground wire from your card to the case.  The riser should just be an extension of the same pinouts as the slot.  

Where would I attach the ground wire on the card too?

[Moonzy]

What risers specifically?

[Jurassic]

11 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

What risers specifically?

These ones

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Jurassic said:

These ones

Ah I see, mining risers

You need to set the pcie generation to pcie gen 1 for these to work

 

Based on my experience with MSI board (b550 tomahawk), only the main slot pcie generation can be changed, so you can try dig around and see if it's any different on yours

 

What task are you thinking of running on the GPU?

[--SID--]

What's the plan with the riser?

What's the brand and model of the PSU?

Which CPU?

[Jurassic]

3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

Ah I see, mining risers

You need to set the pcie generation to pcie gen 1 for these to work

 

Based on my experience with MSI board (b550 tomahawk), only the main slot pcie generation can be changed, so you can try dig around and see if it's any different on yours

 

What task are you thinking of running on the GPU?

 

1 minute ago, --SID-- said:

What's the plan with the riser?

What's the brand and model of the PSU?

Which CPU?

To use the graphics card to get display. My psu is an Enermax mexrevo 1350w and the cpu is a ryzen 9 5950x

[Jurassic]

5 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

Ah I see, mining risers

You need to set the pcie generation to pcie gen 1 for these to work

 

Based on my experience with MSI board (b550 tomahawk), only the main slot pcie generation can be changed, so you can try dig around and see if it's any different on yours

 

What task are you thinking of running on the GPU?

I'm just trying to get display out of the graphics card while not having to have it in the case

[Moonzy]

6 minutes ago, Jurassic said:

I'm just trying to get display out of the graphics card while not having to have it in the case

Then the riser would work fine, though that's a weird requirement

 

Either get a pcie gen 3 riser or try and see if you can set the pcie slot you want to use to pcie gen 1 (or 1.1)