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Hello, 

I was building a custom sleeper pc and I was using a pcie riser to connect the gpu to the motherboard and when i went to boot it up the vga light on the motherboard was on and nothing displaying on my monitor. 

I then proceeded to try and use the pcie riser to connect to my personal pc and same issue. the pcie and the gpu are free floating and not bolted on so i was wondering if i need to bolt those in for the gpu to work. 

Kinda confused because i never used a pcie riser before. 

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You don't need to secure the card or the riser for them to work. The PC could be mounted on the ceiling with the card dangling down in mid-air, as long as everything in the chain from card to cable to PCIe slot on the motherboard are making good contact. (Obviously, in such a situation, they probably wouldn't be making good contact for very long.)

 

Your experience points to the riser cable being faulty, or possibly a problem with the BIOS configuration for the PCIe slot you're using.

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What are the full specs of the build? Risers can do funky things with PCIE generation negotiating so I'd be curious to see if that's something possible here.

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GPU, Mobo, and Riser details will help

 

without knowing details my best guess is you may have a PCIe3 riser and are trying to use it with a PCIe4 GPU. if that's the case then you'll need to either use onboard graphics or plug the GPU in directly long enough to get in to BIOS and set the PCIe slot to force PCIe3 mode if you want to use the riser.

 

risers aren't forward/backward compatible like the slots/cards themselves for some reason.

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