Primary PCI-E slot NOT functioning, Secondary does ? ? ? ?

....have & been running this MB: MSI K8N Diamond Plus = SLi w/2x_Nvidia G-Force7800GTX{512mb}..........came to turn on this morning and NO BOOT after post????? . . . . . . have troubleshoot down as far as remove'd both VGA's and start'd with only one.........come to find out either card DOES work & boot's system up, BUT , ONLY in the /Secondary PCI-E slot? !? ! This does not matter which card, or even selecting in the BIOS of which slot first, ( aka: PCI-E1 > PCI-E2 / or / PCI-E2 > PCI-E2 ), for it's bootable order...... SEEM's to be the Primary PCI-E slot, (closest to CPU), is none functioning / reading any kind of video card install'd into? ! ? ! ? . . . . . wondering if anyone could shed anyony other help / suggestion's / comment's pertaining to this or any other idea's of which i may have NOT checked or try, to troubleshoot ......... thnx in advance
mr. Charles
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Hi Charles
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)
Normal mode Primary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x 16
Secondary PCI-E slot is compatible with PCI Express x 1
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.
MSI K8N SLI-F // 2 x 1gb PQI RAM // AMD X2 4400+ (939)
Silverstone OP650w PSU // 2 x Optical drives // 1 x 320gb Seagate SATA drive
Asus 9800GT // PCI: Soundblaster Audigy // LeadTek WinFast Deluxe TVCard
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