The R5 230 arrived today (already!) and I confirmed it's working directly in the x16 slot but it's still not working in the x4 slot. Boot stops on the video BIOS:
Code:
Loaded "bootcyrusplus.img" from "HDIMG0:", booting...
45.134|
45.134|
45.135| ABox 1.30 (2.7.2018) © 1999-2022 by Ralph Schmidt, Emmanuel Lesueur, Teemu Suikki, Harry Sintonen
45.192| P50X0_InitIDE@0: Drive present
45.196| P50X0_InitIDE@1: Drive not present
45.200| Post-reset SATA delay hack
45.205| Post-reset SATA delay hack
45.208| P50x0 SATA Driver@0: PIO Mode 4
45.212| P50x0 SATA Driver@0: UDMA Mode 6
45.216| ide.device@0: ATA-HD CT2000MX500SSD1 <DIRECT_ACCESS>
45.221| HandleInterrupt@0: Signature is now 0x00000000
45.226| HandleInterrupt@0: Signature update
45.230| HandleInterrupt@0: Phy ready
47.223| usbscsi.device@0: Mount <HDIMG0>
47.227| usbscsi.device@0: Partition <HDIMG0> DosType 0x444f5307 BootPri 15
47.771| Radeon: Read BIOS ROM @0x14408edc
49.389| rec phys buffer 0x14d9fb14 length set to 0x7d0
I'm now wondering if this is a driver issue? It is possible my x4 to x16 adapter is faulty. I don't really have any way to prove that one way or another.