Z68A-GD65 G3 with i7 2600K, Crossfire (resolved: Poor seating)

Hi everyone!
New to this forum, and unfortunatly my first post here has to do with a problem.
First, my specs:
Mobo: MSI Z68A-GD65 G3
CPU: Intel i7 2600K 3.4GHz
RAM: Corsair Vengance DDR3 4x4GB 1600MHz XMP
SSD: Corsair Force 3 series 120GB (SATA 3.0)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB (SATA 3.0)
GPU: 2 x XFX Radeon 7950 "Double D" 3GB GDDR5 800MHz
PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 800W (80 Plus Gold)
Now my problem: I can`t get my videocards to run in AMD CrossfireX, there is no box to check off in CCC, and the card not beeing used on screen is disabled.
My first mobo had a faulty PCIe slot (PCIe_02 i believe, the top one of the blue 3.0 slots), because nothing worked in that slot. But now that I have a board with functioning slots (cards work fine alone in that slot, so just assuming it's ok), I can`t seem to get them to work in Crossfire.
RESOLVED! After seating the cards about 15 times, they finally both run at PCIe 2.0x8 and work in Crossfire.
- EDITED - (Because it's late here (3am), and I resolved it...)

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