Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty PCIe x 1 in x16 not recognised (GA-X58A-UD7)

[Tularis]

As the Subject,

I have a X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty PCIe x1. And Have it plugged into the Bottom PCIe x16 slot, and its not being detected.

It should work. Anyone have any thoughts?

MOBO: GA-X58A-UD7

[Dark Mantis]

No, agreed that in theory it should work but for some reason a few people have reported that they could only get their sound cards to work in the top PCEI x1 slot.

What other cards have you got installed ?

[Tularis]

How rubbish...

All I have is one Nvidia GTX 460 in the Top PCI-e16 slot.

I really don't want to have to use the PCI-e x1 slot as I would need to remove the Passive Cooler.... and to do that would mean I need to remove the CPU cooler.

[Dark Mantis]

Actually there are two PCIE x1 slots but you would need to move the GPU down to the next PCIE x16 slot.

[Tularis]

Indeed there are two... from what I can see the Passive Cooler Plugs into the top one, and the bottom one is left exposed.
Thou even if i did move the GPU down the Passive cooler would still be blocking the needed space to fit the sound card

[Dark Mantis]

I have the exact same board and I have just looked and reckon that the second PCIE x1 slot would be clear enough of the cooler to use if it is a short card.

By the way the cooler doesn't plug into any of the slots but it does cover the top one.

[Tularis]

Aha! yes, It might just fit.

The only issues I have in moving the GPU down I will have to re-do all the Cabling inc HDD power (Stiff PSU Cables and short case) Which is going to be a big job (for me).

I'm going to try and return the card. If not then I'll guess i'll have to bite the bullet.

All I wanted was Optical out Shame the PCIe8x slots don't work ..

[Dark Mantis]

For the GPU I think you could use the x8 slot as they don't  use the full bandwidth and you would be able to move the card without changing the wiring at all.

[Tularis]

You would think ,

With the amount of disks and things in my case there isn't much room.

We'll see what happens.

And cheers for the help, If all goes well, lets hope I don't see a reduce in performance from 16 to 8

[Dark Mantis]

A single graphics card shouldn't need any more than x8 bus width and besides it will at least prove whether the sound card will work in that slot.

[RatsAss]

My board has 2 x16 and 2 x8 lanes

I have my X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty  card in the 2nd x8 slot and it works fine.

2 x16 lanes are occupied.


It cuts the 2nd x16 lane to x8 but no big deal.

[soarwitheagles]

My board has 2 x16 and 2 x8 lanes

I have my X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty  card in the 2nd x8 slot and it works fine.

2 x16 lanes are occupied.


It cuts the 2nd x16 lane to x8 but no big deal.

Thanks for your post Ripjaws!

I have a quick question:

Can you tell me which drivers and OS you are using.  I have the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series [I actually have 3 of them, one with the front panel] but when I read all the posts about people being angry about the driver problem, I was afraid to open the boxes.

Can you let me know how you got it to work?

Also, are you using the front panel too?

Thanks,

Soar

PS I was actually thinking of picking up another version this weekend [Fry's has them on sale in-store for $60 and online for $109 instead of $199] for resale purposes.  I will drive to Fry's tomorrow.

The exact version is found here: http://www.frys.com/product/5665331

Can you help me understand how to make this work on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit?

Thanks,

Soar

[Dark Mantis]

Hi Soar,

That's another extremely good deal that you have there. When you go to Fry's can you beg them to open a store in the UK...please , PLEASE!

I think you only post them on here to wind me up! 

[Tularis]

My board has 2 x16 and 2 x8 lanes

I have my X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty  card in the 2nd x8 slot and it works fine.

2 x16 lanes are occupied.

It cuts the 2nd x16 lane to x8 but no big deal.

Well I tried it in both the 8x lanes, the X-fi LED lights up, but nothing is detected in windows.
Lets Pray for the RMA

[Dark Mantis]

In theory the PCIE x1 card should work ion any PCIE slot regardless of bandwidth of the slot.