Title: msi z87 g65 boots ok with 5 gpu, B2 error with 6 Post by: iarsenaux on February 23, 2014, 01:17:11 PM MSI Z87 GD65
6x MSI R9 280x GAMING OC 1475w 80+gold toughpower TT 1100w 80+gold Strike X 8GB RAM Intel I5 Mobo can detect 5 gpu's but whenever i add the 6th card, i get B2 error on the debug led and won't boot. anyone here who has an idea what B2 error means and what i need to do? Title: Re: msi z87 g65 boots ok with 5 gpu, B2 error with 6 Post by: iarsenaux on February 24, 2014, 12:22:52 AM up
Title: Re: msi z87 g65 boots ok with 5 gpu, B2 error with 6 Post by: eozdem on March 11, 2014, 05:27:00 PM have you shorted slots?
Title: Re: msi z87 g65 boots ok with 5 gpu, B2 error with 6 Post by: pf22100 on March 12, 2014, 10:44:27 PM i have 2 of the same boards running win 8.1 and 6 cards in each. I had to short the 2nd and 3rd PCI x16 slots. Also, in the BIOS I set the PCI slots to GEN 1
What OS are you running? I could not get XUbuntu/Ubuntu to boot up consistently, so that is why I am using win 8.1 Also, the motherboard manual will tell you what the bios error means - at work right now so can't look it up. Title: Re: msi z87 g65 boots ok with 5 gpu, B2 error with 6 Post by: eozdem on March 13, 2014, 05:49:41 AM i have 2 of the same boards running win 8.1 and 6 cards in each. I had to short the 2nd and 3rd PCI x16 slots. Also, in the BIOS I set the PCI slots to GEN 1 What OS are you running? I could not get XUbuntu/Ubuntu to boot up consistently, so that is why I am using win 8.1 Also, the motherboard manual will tell you what the bios error means - at work right now so can't look it up. how can you short x16 slots? is there any diagram Title: Re: msi z87 g65 boots ok with 5 gpu, B2 error with 6 Post by: pf22100 on March 13, 2014, 06:50:02 PM Hi
You do it the same pinout as the 1x slots - pin A1 to pin B17 |