[SOLVED] NVMe PCIe card not detected by Supermicro X11SPI-TF

So I have two U.2 drives in a 2x U.2 to PCIe x8 adapter card plugged into a PCIe x8 slot wired to the CPU on a Supermicro X11SPI-TF motherboard. I know the card and drives work perfectly fine on other systems because they were working just fine before moving them to this motherboard. Here is a picture of what my PCIe Configuration tab looks like:

I updated to the latest BIOS, tweaked many dials in the BIOS including manually setting the port to gen 2 speed, changing the NVMe Firmware Source, and the PCIe slot OPROM to EFI (whatever that means) with no luck. Nothing shows with lspci or lsblk, and as seen in the picture listing boot options below not even the BIOS sees them.

At this point I’m not really sure what to do since the drives and adapter work fine. Any help would be hugely appreciated!

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How do you set that slot to bifurcation?

I see x8 mode, but not x4x4 or whatever might be needed?

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Step by step as per here?

Like, via advanced>chipset>north bridge>CPU>iiou> etc…

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Ohhh, good call, I hadn’t thought about bifurcating. I’ll try that and report back.

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Welp, changed the first option to 4x4x4x4 just to see and it worked right away. I wish I could convey to you the power of the sonic boom from my hand rocketing towards my forehead. Its been a long day hahaha…

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