Hp p400 pci-x8 running in pci-x16 slot

My thanks in advance for any help I may receive.
I am currently experiencing a "device not found error" whilst trying to use an HP p400 array sas pci-x8 adapter in a pci-16 slot.
The motherboard is a Gigabyte H81M-S2PV,
8 gigabytes of RAM,
650 Watt power supply and
award modular bios 6.00g and
intel i3 chip
HP P400 with 512 cache and battery
I only have access to the slots mentioned. I have tested the adapter in three other machines which have the same exapnsion slot arrangements.
Please clarify if the pci-x8 card should function in the pc-x16 slot? I am trying to assertain if my adapter is faulty.
Many thanks
Mutasim
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Thanks for your input PlumCrumble.
I was silently sure the card should work but felt it would not hurt to get another opinion. This reply is accepted as a solution for the first question.
If I may be bold can I ask if you have any suggestions on my current scenario: When starting the PC, the screen is black for almost six minutes no messages or indications as to what is happening - then after the period of six minutes or more the PC continues to the normal boot functions; post, loads Windows etc. The HP ORCA and other utilities reports device not present. However the Widnows device manager indicates a device with driver error.
In my humble thinking I believe a device is detected but the firmware or required software is missing, After trying the Proliant repair and installation boot disk, I am little lost as to what software is required to intialise the the device and set the correct IRQ at the BIOS level of the process.
Is there software and firmware utility available for the HP P400 at the DOS level that I need to be aware of - I am a novice with this particular HP device and any help would be greatly appreciated. Linux system also reports the same results.

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