ddawson Posted May 3, 2006 Posted May 3, 2006 I replaced my SLI-DR with an Expert last night that I bought it from Newegg. No other changes in hardware. After formatting the drives I get failures while the files are copying to disk. I tried several CD's and the original XP CD with the same results. I have the WD plugged into SATA 1/2 and the Seagate drive is unplugged. I have the memory in 1/3 Also there is one FAN3 Connector that has 4 pins on it. It looks like a floppy Power Connector but I didn't see it mentioned in the Manual. Any suggestions? Did I miss something? I forgot to add I removed 1 of the video cards and the X-Fi with no success. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberparasite Posted May 3, 2006 Posted May 3, 2006 retry the install with a single stick of ram. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fariss Posted May 3, 2006 Posted May 3, 2006 Plug the FDD "look-alike" into the connection near the PCEe slots. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cronocrash Posted May 3, 2006 Posted May 3, 2006 Are your running your memory at stock settings? Did your ram prove memtest stable? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelballzz Posted May 3, 2006 Posted May 3, 2006 do u have your optic drives in wich IDE channel? my venus doesnt like IDE 1 free...i had to change my optical drives from 2 to 1 i also had strange errors...idma386 missing or something like that good luck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddawson Posted May 3, 2006 Posted May 3, 2006 Yes stock settings. Memory was Memtested on the DR, but I have not on the Expert. It was good to 250 on the DR at stock setting I'll plug in the Floppy Power connector by the PCEe slot. I'll pull the memory from DIMM 3 The Plextor is set to master and connected to IDE1 During the copy the will prompt with I can't read this *.dll Skip or Retry. If you skip and will do another set of files then fail on a different file. I can keep hitting skip but something is wrong. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddawson Posted May 4, 2006 Posted May 4, 2006 OK moving the Memory from the Yellow to the Orange slots fixed the problem. The OS is now installed and the Nvida FW 84.21 Drivers are installed along with Nforce 6.70's NOW I can't turn on SLI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It states I must remove and graphics cards that are not compatible with Nvidia scalable link interface. What is going on with this motherboard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberparasite Posted May 4, 2006 Posted May 4, 2006 make sure pci-e config is set to 8-4-NC-8 in bios, boot windows in safe mode and uninstall vid driver, reboot and reinstall driver. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddawson Posted May 4, 2006 Posted May 4, 2006 I get no display when I set to 8-4-NC-8. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddawson Posted May 4, 2006 Posted May 4, 2006 Got it to work. Uninstall drivers reboot, set 8-4-NC-8 and reinstall drivers. Now on to the testing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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