890FXA-GD70 and multicard crossfireX and pciExpress speeds

Hi,
I recently purchased the 890FXA-GD70 and am seeing some interesting issues. I have 3 HD48701GB graphics cards and according to the manual version 1.1 i should be able to run them in:
x16 x8 x8 pciExpress configuration in slots 1,5,6
(pc will boot but monitor never comes on, can only assume video cards are never initialized)
or
x8, x8, x16 in slots 1,3, and 5.
can get into windows but gpuz reads only x8 and x2, windows device manager only detects 2 4870 video cards.
Currently I am only using 2 cards in slots 1 and 5 which should yield x16 and x16, but according to gpuz I am only seeing x8 and x2 pciexpress speeds.
Also when using just one video card in slot 1 i see only x2 pciexpress speeds. cpuz reports x16 max available.
Are there some settings in the bios i am missing? or maybe a jumper on the motherboard i am missing? I also tried disabling cool and quite in the bios but that doesn't seem to do anything as the the mghz in cpuz report 800 with an x4 multiplier.

Update:
So i kept messing with this tonight and made an interesting discovery. I decided to try and get at least 1 card running at x8 speed so i tried just one in slot 3. Fired up and w00t x8 speed. Then to push my luck i tried a second one in slot 6, add crossfire bridge start up and bam x8 and x8. So with this much success i decided to put the 3rd card in the 5th slot, change my crossfire adapters. Startup, get into windows, and only 2 cards detected... i thought. So i went back into the bios with all three cards still plugged in and did the reset to default values or reset to failsafe, something like that. Started back up still with three cards in slots 3,5,6 and gpuz gives me readings of x8, x8, x8. I'm sticking with this for now but i'm wondering if after flashing the bios to 1.2 if reset to failsafe needed to be done to get all the settings back to a 'normal' state.
But for now my issues are resolved.
Thanks for reading.

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