Evancold Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 I have been running in SLI since I got my board about a week ago. However when I came home tonight and turned on my computer I got a pop up message from my nvidia drivers that load at startup. So I went into the display properties and it says to take out cards that are not sli compatible. This does not make sense, I have ran these cards in three other boards in SLI with no issue at all. Also I have been running them in SLI since I got this board, then all the sudden no SLI. Anyone have any idea on how to resolve this issue? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenC Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 Try un-installing and reinstalling your video drivers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
verncat05 Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 Happened to me, too, before I rma'd the Expert. I just rebooted and when back into XP, reenabled SLI. It was very wierd, but the reboot solved it. Actually, kinda glad to see that it wasn't just me, thought maybe a video card was going, or something horrible like that. Shawn Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evancold Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 I did reinstall the video drivers however that did not help at all. After messing with it for hours I finally got it last night by hooking up two monitors, one for each card. lol FIXED Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
servo101 Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 eh? thats a weird fix. that shouldnt happen and you should not need 2 monitors to run SLI... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr8golf Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 I did reinstall the video drivers however that did not help at all. After messing with it for hours I finally got it last night by hooking up two monitors, one for each card. lol FIXED WHAT! I have a thread here trying to figure out why the hell my SLI has never worked - and would never have thought of plugging another monitor into the other card. What the hell is wrong with this Expert board? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evancold Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 Ok this is what was really odd about it. OK Sli was disabled and monitor was hooked up via dvi on the top card. I would enable SLI in the bios and reboot. Then the only place I could get a display was on the top card using the analog connection rather than the DVI. Then once i loaded into windows using the top card analog connection and enabled SLI in windows, it changed to the bottom card DVI connection. So there you have it. This is one of the most odd things I have ever seen SLI do. Just thought I would clarify the whole 2 monitor thing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr8golf Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 That helps - does SLI only work in general is the monitor is plugged into the bottom card? And I have 4 DVI ports - no analog ports at all. My monitor is currently plugged into the top card (closest to the CPU / back ports) and into the port at the bottom of the card (closest to the MB). I have played around with all of the other ports previously, but will go back and try them again. This sucks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evancold Posted December 16, 2005 Posted December 16, 2005 Try going throught the steps like I did, even if you do not have analog ports hopefully it will work. Keep me updated on how your testing goes, and good luck. And yes I have to use the bottom card when I am running SLI Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.