[MSI-K8N-SLI-FI] Primary PCI-Express slot dead ?

Hi,
Early this year with 8800GT plugged in the primary PCI-Express slot would fail to output the video, so I had to revert to my old 6600GT and it worked fine till now that is. I had verified my 8800 GT on different system and it booted just fine.
Now all of a sudden even 6600GT failed to output the video. So, I tried another slot (courtesy SLI) and the system works fine.
Issue: PCI Express width is shown as x1 instead of x8/16 ?
Is there a way to repair the first slot or force x8 on second slot.
regards,
Prashant

Quote from: Henry on 30-May-10, 02:59:09
Is the MB chipset fan running OK or is it slow or stopped? Any problems with other things controlled by the chipset?
Yes, chipset fan seems to be running just fine, will have to check the speed though. USB ports are working fine. What else should I check ?

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Just wondering how you got on with the replacement? Did MSI give any details as to what might have happened or was wrong?
I'm having a similiar issue myself. My MSI K8N SLI-F board seems to now have a 'tempremental" primary PCI-E slot. I have a 9800GT card that was working fine for months and then I got no video on reboot after trying to get dual displays up and running. After much troubleshooting and RMA'ing my 9800GT card I think it must be the slot on the Mainboard itself. My 6800GS which has a light fan on it compared to the massive glaciator on my 9800GT is working fine but whenever I put the 9800GT (original or replacement) in I get no video on boot but I can hear the computer and HD making all its normal noises and know its getting to the windows login screen. The 9800GT fan spins up then turns off or sometimes stays spinning. Both cards work fine in another machine. After cleaning out the slot and screwing in the card nice and hard it went again and ran all day but after shutting down and leaving it overnight, I got no video on boot again. My guess is the cooling of the card overnight made it move slightly. I have repeated the reseating steps and have it going again. I can only presume the slot itself is now loose or the solder on it is failing or something, or could it be the Power Supply?.... has me stumped. When the card isn't in just right and I get no video I also get both optical drives ticking / seeking like there looking for a disc about 10 times then the computer kinda internally restarts and it goes again with no video still. When I have the card screwed in tight like now it doesn't happen. With the card screwed in like now I pushed the card a little and then turned it on and again I get no video. Reseat, rescrew and it goes again.... weird. Any suggestions? PCI-voltage? PSU Maybe? the slot? something else?
Anyway I don't think I can actually try the 2nd slot as the MSI K8N SLI-FI/ F site says:
Two PCI Express x16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
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SLI mode Primary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x 8
Secondary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x 8
So I presume I can't get full 16x out of the 2nd slot and looking at it, it only has the gold pins going half way down the slot where as the primary slot has them right to the end.
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