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Installing PCIe x16 3.0 GPU in PCIex16 2.0 Motherboard
Just purchased a new CPU MSI GeForce GTX 1650 D6 VENTUS XS for my aged Gigabyte mother board GA-990FXA-UD5 (rev. 3.0) Overview | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global
I'm getting the yellow exclamation mark for (PCI Device) in Device Manager. I can't get a driver to install for it. It won't pull it from the original Gigabyte software disk. I never had any problems getting it to install for the old GPU and if I remove the new GPU and put the old one back in the yellow exclamation mark disappears. So, the PCIe x16 2.0 driver is installed. I'm guessing that it's because the Gigabyte MB supports PCIe x16 2.0 and the new GPU is 3.0. I've always thought that PCIe x16 3.0 is backwards compatible with 2.0 however, no one ever talks about getting a 3.0 driver to install for a 2.0 slot.
Does anyone have any ideas about where and how to get a 3.0 driver to run this new GPU?
Keep in mind that I'm just guessing that this is the problem,............I'm all ears.
Thanks,
Bruce