Sound car issues.

[Inked]

So first of all this is my motherboard...

Going from the top PCI-e 1x slot

Nothing
Asus Xonar Essence STX
Evga GTX 570
Blocked by GTX 570
Open
Open
Galaxy GTX 460 PPU

Which brings me to my problem, when I put my sound card in the open slot underneath my 570, no video is displayed. When I put it back in the PCI-e 1x slot everything is fine.

 

[MindoverMaster]

I'm lost, sorry. you want to put your sound card, where? In that list, it says you want to put it above your video card, not below. the ASUS Xonar is PCI-e x1?

 

[Inked]

Sorry kinda weird explaining, but the list is how my computer is set up. I want to put my sound car below my 570.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Your sound card is PCI-E x1, not PCI-E

That might have been the problem. Your computer is looking for a GPU and can't find one, so it gets confused.

 

[Peter.Cort]

normally it doesn't matter that it's a sound card going into the pci-e slot, but there are some issues with intel boards where the pci-e slots only look for gpu's. sounds like this is one of those rare exceptions.

 

[Inked]

Well before I put my GTX 460 in, I had my sound card in that slot and everything worked fine.

Could it be that my system is drawing too much power from my PSU?