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- Aug 12, 2005
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- Montreal, QC
I replaced my dying DFI board with an Asus A8N-SLI Premium from eBay, and I haven't been able to get SLI options to show up at all. Since it didn't come with a bridge, I figured that was the issue, even though nVidia drivers have been supporting bridgeless SLI for a while.
But now that I have ordered the SLI bridge, and have put it in, it still doesn't detect SLI, no matter which setting I choose in the BIOS. Basically when I look in the nVidia Control Panel (both new and old, using a registry hack to get it to show), the option for SLI simply isn't there, as if the chipset didn't support it at all.
This is using Windows Vista 64-bit, with ForceWare 169.09.
I've already ensured that both cards worked individually, in each slot of the motherboard. In each case, it POSTs fine, gets to Windows, and is detected by GPU-Z normally. However, if I put both at once, the second one might as well not exist. Plugging the monitor into it gets no signal. I know the cards can work in SLI as I already used them with my old board.
I had BIOS version 1009, so I figured updating would help, however it's not any better with 1303.
Already searched around for possible compatibility issues between GeForce 7800GTXs, A8N-SLI Premium and Windows Vista 64, and couldn't find anything glaringly incompatible.
Any insight?
But now that I have ordered the SLI bridge, and have put it in, it still doesn't detect SLI, no matter which setting I choose in the BIOS. Basically when I look in the nVidia Control Panel (both new and old, using a registry hack to get it to show), the option for SLI simply isn't there, as if the chipset didn't support it at all.
This is using Windows Vista 64-bit, with ForceWare 169.09.
I've already ensured that both cards worked individually, in each slot of the motherboard. In each case, it POSTs fine, gets to Windows, and is detected by GPU-Z normally. However, if I put both at once, the second one might as well not exist. Plugging the monitor into it gets no signal. I know the cards can work in SLI as I already used them with my old board.
I had BIOS version 1009, so I figured updating would help, however it's not any better with 1303.
Already searched around for possible compatibility issues between GeForce 7800GTXs, A8N-SLI Premium and Windows Vista 64, and couldn't find anything glaringly incompatible.
Any insight?