No problem,
Strangely enough it was reading as PCI-e x16 3.0, though I had garbled audio over hdmi, and some loss of performance. I suspect as you said some lanes were damaged and or the ribbon wasn't shielded well enough. Otherwise new riser and happy days. Good luck and looking forward to...
hey meant no offence or to question the quality of the risers you supply. The issue sounded very similar to the problem I was having with my riser with the evolv shift. I was simply suggestion to run a bench on something like 3dmark on both pcie 3.0 then 2.0. A faulty riser may run a little...
brentsg, go into your bios and change PCIE from auto to 2.0. Also updating your bios should help. I'd put my money on a faulty riser, if your in Europe highflow.com.nl sell really good quality risers though I think they also ship globally. Had a similar problem as you, changing to pcie 2.0...