Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In today's video we're going to take a look at how to fix the Fractal Ridge riser card issue by dropping down to PCI-E Gen 3 via your motherboard's BIOS.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:09 What's wrong with the Fractal Ridge?
1:46 ASUS BIOS Fix
2:07 MSI BIOS Fix
2:29 GIGABYTE BIOS Fix
2:46 Outro

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