Windows 10: New Monitor -> Windows Startup not showing anymore

actually no because my graphic card is too big i guess, but would the graphic card overheat if there is something that close to it anyway?

edit: i will take a picture for you one sec.

 

i put the soundcard now into pcie 1 and left the graphic card in pcie 2 and it works..
but is it fine that they are so close i mean graphiccard soundcard and cpu fan?

 

Should be fine, that's what I would have done. Has the phantom monitor gone ? *Biggrin

 

actually yes.. wtf wasted 3 evenings of my life because of this lol *Biggrin

solution:
dont put soundblaster z into any other than: 1, 3 or 4 pcie on asrock z97 extreme 4

actually the best thing would be to not use those graphic card slots for anything else than graphic cards

i cant believe that they reserved those slots that hard for graphic cards... whats the sense of it and even better the motherboard then thinks the soundcard or whatever is plugged in there is a monitor actually wtf?

whatever thank you guys for your nice help *Smile good night

 

Yeh, but we all learned something. You got there in the end *Biggrin

Auf wiedersehen

Torqy

 

Glad you got it sorted. From what I've read, your supposed to be able to use them for other hardware, not just video cards. But they are interlinked somewhat for SLI or Crossfire to work. I won't get to mess with that stuff until my next build. My current motherboard only has one full sized PCIe slot, lol. I only have the one place to put my Video card. My only other PCIe slot is a x4 or something for WIFI cards etc. It's been a while since my last build to say the least.

 

What threw me was installing a sound card. With the onboard sound nowadays being sufficient for my needs I haven't installed one for years. The first time I had to populate a slot x1 was only two weeks ago, a wireless card in my sisters PC. It was obvious where it went, in my ignorance didn't realise it would fit in a x16 slot.
We live and learn, got the lad sorted even if we had to go round the houses a few times *chuckle

 

Yeah, onboard sound is good enough for me these days. I haven't installed a sound card since the days a motherboard didn't come with it built in. I have nothing against somebody wanting better sound, and adding a good quality card, I just don't see the need myself. My motherboards are long in the tooth these days and missing a lot of the current features. Makes it tricky some times to keep up with what's going on.

 

You always want to use the PCIE 16 slot for a high end card like yours. Otherwise your significantly reducing the performance that you paid a lot of money for. Most MB's that I've seen only have one of those, so it's important to measure how much room you have before you buy a particular brand. They're not all the same size.

Like most of the above I've not used and 3rd party sound card in many years. The internal works just fine for me. The speakers and/or headset is much more important these days.

In any case, I'm glad you got your problem sorted. *Smile