Standby and PCIE 2.0 x16 problem

Question

Good day Forum,
I have encountered 2 issues with my setup (I will list the setup specifications below).
Standby issue: My computer is unable to go S1 nor S3 standby despite having a new operating system installed. Power settings set at Maximum Performance for Windows 7. When I clicked 'Sleep', the system will power down but it will power up again (without having the display shown). I have ruled out USB issues because I have taken out all USB peripherals connected to it right before it shuts down from standby and connected back again after it powered up.
PCIE issue: My PCIE 2.0 x16 graphic card is slots into the blue coloured PCIE 2.0 x16 slot. There are 2 PCIE-based cards which are connected to the motherboard via the PCIE slot but they are not connected to the 2nd PCI 2.0 x16 slot (hence, no reason for the speed to drop to x8). The issue here is not concerning the bandwidth of my graphics card but merely a question of curiousity as to why the interface speed drops from PCI-E 2.0 x16 to PCI-E x16 (v1.1). Any ideas? Here are some of the screenshots I took before and after:
Before:
After:
Specification:
Intel i7-860 (2.8GHz)
MSI P55-GD85
Palit GTX570 1280MB
4x2GB RAM (DDR3-1333MHz)
Hauppauge HVR-2200
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude
Intel Pro 1000PT
2xSamsung F3 1TB (HD103SJ)
Steelseries Xai Mouse
Microsoft Digital 3000 Keyboard
Seasonic M12 700W

Answer 1

Quote from: NovJoe on 13-June-11, 10:44:40
To answer your second query, the following is extracted from MSI's website on your board's detail specifications.
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• 2 PCI Express gen2 x16 slots
- If two graphics cards are installed at PCI_E1 & PCI_E2 slots, these two PCIE x16 lanes will auto arrange from x16/ x0 to x8/ x8
- supports ATI® Crossfire™  & NVIDIA SLI
• 1 PCI Express gen2 x1 slot (blue)
• 1 PCI Express gen1 x1 slot
• 2 PCI slots, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P55-GD85.html#?div=Detail
Nope this is not related to his query[see his screenshots]
Quote from: Christine_Henri on 13-June-11, 09:38:24
PCIE issue: My PCIE 2.0 x16 graphic card is slots into the blue coloured PCIE 2.0 x16 slot. There are 2 PCIE-based cards which are connected to the motherboard via the PCIE slot but they are not connected to the 2nd PCI 2.0 x16 slot (hence, no reason for the speed to drop to x8). The issue here is not concerning the bandwidth of my graphics card but merely a question of curiousity as to why the interface speed drops from PCI-E 2.0 x16 to PCI-E x16 (v1.1). Any ideas? Here are some of the screenshots I took before and after:
Before:
After:
That's suppose to be. It's self adjust pci-e [1.xx <==> 2.xx] depend of VGA power needs.
When the VGA works in higher performance mode then will be auto switched to pci-e 2.0 automatically.
Quote from: Christine_Henri on 13-June-11, 09:38:24
Standby issue: My computer is unable to go S1 nor S3 standby despite having a new operating system installed. Power settings set at Maximum Performance for Windows 7. When I clicked 'Sleep', the system will power down but it will power up again (without having the display shown). I have ruled out USB issues because I have taken out all USB peripherals connected to it right before it shuts down from standby and connected back again after it powered up.
A new BIOS can help with this. If you already use latest BIOS for your mainboard, then you can ask msi about it here for further beta bios: http://support.msi.com/
P.S: Try turn off/Disable the "EuP 2013" BIOS option 1st, then retest