Lenovo thinkcenter 720q + metis pcie not working

Hi there ​@Keith Sachs ! I’m not sure I’ve seen much of the Thinkcenters… do you know if it can supply enough power to a Metis PCIe? (Around 75w, is it?).

I feel like someone previously mentioned needing a riser card for a Lenovo too, but I can’t find it now...

Should be able to i would think, i shoved a 135W psu at it and the system its self only draws maybe 30w under load
and yeah it does use a riser card and i fear that may infact be the problem but i was hoping to get some other opinions haha

oh another note i was browsing last night and i see that ubuntu 22 is what is recommended but i installed 24 before seeing that, not sure if that could be the cause of my headaches but i would imagine it would show up at least with lspci in 24? 

one more update for you, i realized i had a gigabit pcie nic laying around, put that in the pcie riser to test and it does show up so the riser its self should work.