After digging further - HP uses a non-standard PCIe bus protocols for their FlexLOM PCIe 8x slots. So only FlexLOM cards work in that slot and FlexLOM cards do not work in standard PCIe slots. You would only know this if you found the one technical document where this is mentioned. Near all of HP's documentation on this card states it "PCI Express" when it truly isn't.
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