I have the same motherboard and I had a lot of trouble with it to make it work with 7 Gpu.
One trick you can try is to change the m.2 port , only one of them supports PCI-e.
Son try the other one and it should do the trick.
I assume you already changed the bios settings , 4g decoding , pci-e speed.
can you send me photo of your bios settings? I set pcie to Gen1 and 4g decoding, also on onboard devices i set it to X2, i tried both ports and still not working.