PCIe x1 GPUs & Booting with it.


Shinobi

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I was wondering if anyone knows about making a BIOS detect & show its the display output on a PCIe x1 Graphics card.

What we have here is a Matrox G550 PCIe.

When I boot with this, I don't get any error sounds or such.

The only observation is that the display shows a blank screen during POST

 

 

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And yes, this GPU has a physical x1 slot

 

One thing I noticed in the BIOS is something like this.

the "No VGA Card" comment, shows only for slots that have a physical size of PCIE X16.

So, wondering if there is a BIOS limitation, which would only detect & boot GPU cards present in PCIE X16, physically sized slots.
 

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Got any ideas ??!!

 

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