Problems with 990fx Extreme9

The New Years holiday is a much bigger deal in Chinese culture countries, it lasts for a week or more.

Support and RMA is no doubt backed up due to the perfect storm of ASRock being closed for at least a week, and many support and RMA requests from Christmas holiday gifts of mother boards.

Don't give up on the RMA, but also don't waste your time with that board, it must be damaged.

Have ASRock gotten back to your Request? Lord I'm hoping so with this time now elapsed.

Username99 wrote: On my other motherboard my Gpu works in every slot that is able to run it. My gpu was not in the whole process of my Motherboard being broke as I got it a few weeks later. My gpu still works on my new motherboard but only in the first pcie slot.

You might also, before going to the hassle of disassembling it, contact ASRock Tech Support and inquire. It might be something as simple as a BIOS issue with that specific graphics card they can address.

http://event.asrock.com/tsd.asp


or, if Location: Private is in the US:

Support Phone: 1-909-590-8308
Support Email: support@asrockamerica.com

On my other motherboard my Gpu works in every slot that is able to run it. My gpu was not in the whole process of my Motherboard being broke as I got it a few weeks later. My gpu still works on my new motherboard but only in the first pcie slot.

Frankly, even though you had the board repaired for the broken CPU socket, who knows if the entire board was tested for proper operation.

The PCIe 2.0 lanes for the x16 slots are provided by the 990 chipset. While the 990 chipset is close to the CPU socket, it is not directly related to the CPU socket. So the repair of the CPU socket would not fix any damage between the PCIe x16 slots and the 990 chipset.

Personally, given the damage done by the well meaning but inept people that broke both the CPU socket and two processors, I would not trust that board at all.

Given the results with your video cards and the new board, versus the video cards in the "fixed" board, my conclusion would be the old board is damaged in another way that causes the PCIe x16 slots to be non-functional. Another possibility is the CPU socket repair was not completed correctly, causing a failure in the PCIe x16 slots.

Sorry to say, IMO you are wasting your time looking for a fix for the PCIe x16 slots on the old board not recognizing the video cards, which assumes those slots are working correctly. I doubt the slots are working correctly at the hardware level. Which means BIOS, OS, or driver fixes will not work.