MSI 890FXA-GD70 - Can you use all 6 PCI Express expansion slots at once?

Hey all,
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to use all 6 PCI Express expansion slots on the motherboard (the 5 Full x16 slot and the 1 x1 slot) at the same time? I know I'd lose the capability for x16 bandwidth but does using any of the slots automatically disable any of the other slots? I have 6 single wide x1 PCI express cards I want to use at the same time and they do not all seem to be getting recognized by the OS (W7 x64).
Specs on the machine are:
890FXA-GD70 Motherboard - BIOS 1.9
AMD Sempron 145 CPU
4 GB DDR3 Kingston RAM
WD 160 GB Blue SATA HD
Win7 x64
Thanks!

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I have 6 single wide x1 PCI express cards I want to use at the same time and they do not all seem to be getting recognized by the OS (W7 x64).
What cards are they?
By not recognised is mean, not detected? driver conflict?
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I know I'd lose the capability for x16 bandwidth but does using any of the slots automatically disable any of the other slots?
• 5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots
- PCI_E1 supports up to PCIE x16 speed (when PCI_E3 is empty)
- PCI_E5 supports up to PCIE x16 speed (when PCI_E6 is empty)
- If you want to install two graphics cards, please use PCI_E1 & PCI_E5 slots
- PCI_E3 & PCI_E6 support up to PCIE x8 speed
- If you want to install four expansion cards into PCI_E1, E3, E5 & E6 slots, these four PCIE x 16 lanes will auto arrange from x16/ x0/ x16/ x0 to x8/ x8/ x8/ x8
- PCI_E4 supports up to PCIE x4 speed
All PCI-E slots can be filled at the same time with no problem.
They will run at x8,x8,x4,x8,x8
The question mark is the small PCI-E x1 slot.
It's not clear if will affect others or will be disabled, or will work fine with x1 speeds as adverted.
What hapends if you fill 5x of those cards into the five of the PCI-E slots, except the small PCI-E x1 slot?

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