Recent content by travis

One more thing I just discovered, if it helps. In 1280x1040 on the Samsung, with the Samsung as the only monitor plugged in and with both video cards running, I have the option to enable SLI. However, with the Soyo plugged in using the same DVI cable, to the same DVI slot, as the sole monitor, I...

Out of the blue, overnight, in sleep mode, my Soyo 24" monitor would not wake up. Prior, it had been running without flaw, in it's native resolution of 1920x1200 at a refresh rate of, I think, 60, but it might have been "59" and that might be part of the problem. It is driven by a pair of 8800...

I've been working on getting my Soyo 24" working again after quitting on me last week...and I found my way back into this thread. My issue is not an obvious power supply problem, but the PS may still be the issue. The display powers up on boot and shuts down at the point that windows loads the...

Well, f**k me...it worked. Went to nvidia's site and downloaded the newest SATA drivers. Seeing the install/setup screens during driver installation my heart skipped a beat as I remembered why I haven't been using them all this time. At some point, about 6 months after I did this build, I...

spine, whoa, excellent find and post. I'm going to try the nvidia sata driver update and cross my fingers.

And as a final update, I pulled the 1.5 TB drive from my system, reinstalled all four of the 1TB drives using the same cables (including the one that failed when connected to the 1.5 TB drive), powered up, and all of the old drives are working fine. Each and every drive (and cable) tested fine...

Okay, some interesting stuff but nowhere closer to having a formatted HD. First, I unplugged all of my drives from the MB except for the System drive (the 150GB Raptor) and the new WD Green 1.5TB drive that I'm trying to format. Power the system back up and Disk Management recognizes the new...

Thanks for the replies, guys. To answer some questions: The MB is an EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI. A tad on the older side but it suits my needs as a semi-retired gamer turned media server. Disk 0 is the System/Boot drive (a 150GB WD Raptor) as mentioned above. Disks 1-4...

Should mention, Vista SP 2, everything updated through today. Couldn't find a hotfix. In fact, there IS a hotfix that seems to apply to this (or a similar) problem but it only applies to SP1 and my system wouldn't let me install it saying it didn't apply to my OS. Thought I might have gotten...

I have spent the past several hours reading through threads all over the net trying to find a solution to this, but everywhere I see someone with a similar problem their situation is a little more complicated than mine and I can understand why THEY have the problem. My issue seems pretty...

You both might be right. The 680i has what I need for the time being, if it worked. The sad thing is that I'm trying to get the desktop stable so that I can send in the laptop for a recall.

Yea, I did read about people having problems with SATA HDs combined with SATA opitcal drives. It just so happens that my optical drive is IDE. I also have a single IDE HD leftover from an old system and two SATA HDs. Memory and PSU are certainly potential issues. I doubt that they're related...

Okay folks, moved some stuff around today and here's what I found. Both DVI cables are good, and all four outputs (2 per card) work. Following most of AVTs advice and a little brute force I managed to get my vista CD to scrape out most of the newly installed NVIDIA drivers. As long as I'm using...

All I have left laying around the house is PCIe and AGP. I'll see if I can track one down.

Both are DVI. I have a pair of matching cables from when I was running to two-display setup. Of the two GPUs that I have, I'm only using one in the top slot right now. In the primary port, I have my Samsung plugged in and it will boot as far as 7F and I can enter the BIOS. Restarting with the...