stevem24s Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 I previously posted this message and I have received no reply. Im not the most experienced and my friend who usually helps me is having back surgery. I spent a lot of money to use SLI. Is there anyone who can give some advice to this issue? My system was working fine. I had one 7800GTX Video card installed and 4G of ram. I Moved the six jumpers to Pins 2 and 3 and installed two 7800 Gtx cards and the bridge in between them. My computer would not boot up and I was receiving a steady beep as if something was not installed properly. I ensured the video cards were seated properly and I was still unable to boot with the same problem. I decided to remove all but one stick of RAM closest to the outer edge of the board and the system did respond and started to boot. The problem is, after the windows load screen, windows XP setup begins as if I do not have windows installed on my system. The setup is unable to complete. Why would Windows XP setup begin when I already have Windows XP SP2 on my hard drive? I do have two hard drives running seperatly. Any help? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 When you are installing windows, go inot BIOS and change boot order to floppy, hard disk then CD-ROM. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coors Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Thats weird. Do you have a windows cd in the cd drive? When windows was installed were both harddrives in at the same time? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem24s Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 I do not have a cd in the cd drive. Both hard drives were not installed when I installed windows. Last night I disconnected the second hard drive and windows started up with one video card installed. Everything now runs fine with one hard drive and one video card. I attempted again to install the second video card with one hard drive and I have no video now. The windows load screen appears and the power supply seems to quiet down and the screen goes black. I still have a green LED on the monitor. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Hello, From what you have said, - with 1 stick of memory both cards works and you can see the bios/post screen. - But it does not get into windows. Does your version of windows have SP2 installed? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem24s Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 That is correct and yes it does have SP2. This is really weird! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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