sli system help

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ive had my current system with a single ati card, but just got 2 xfx 6600gt's and set it up for sli. i uninstalled the drivers with driver cleaner, took out the ati card and installed the 2 cards, installed the sli bridge and plugged the monitor cable into the top card, left hand dvi plug. i then installed the latest forceware driver, rebooted and everything works. all except the sli part. how do i enable it? there are no prompts that pop up like the slizone website stated. is this something i do in windows? plaz help and sli noob!
 
no sli jumper. im looking at the mobo manual and it says you have to enable sli through the nview tab in the nvidia control panel. i dont have the nview tab....ive installed the latest forceware driver.
 
Have you tried running any 3d programs like 3dmark06 with a single card then with both cards, maybe it knows its in SLI already, ive seen some things like that that will take the option away in the control panel.

Otherwise you might have an option off in the BIOS
 
ive turned on all the stuff in bios for sli. the sli option isnt in the nvidia control panel. there are supposed to be sli settings in that control panel, and id imagine if it were operating properly and it were in sli mode i could see those settings.
 
b4ds33d said:
ive turned on all the stuff in bios for sli. the sli option isnt in the nvidia control panel. there are supposed to be sli settings in that control panel, and id imagine if it were operating properly and it were in sli mode i could see those settings.
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Did you try my other thought though.

This option is from a m2n32 board, but might be the same with the board you have:

There is a setting in the BIOS that will inadvertently disable SLI functionality. On the Advanced tab under Chipset, there is a setting called 'NVIDIA Ex'. This is set to Disabled by default. If you change it to 'Auto Detect' it will remove the option in the NVIDIA control panel to enable SLI.

Enjoy!
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Source: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1147709
 
i thinki have a mobo issue. it wont post now with the cards in sli config, but will work fine if a only have 1 card in. strange...
 
yes, seperately each card works fine. its just when i put both cards in, the pc wont post. its not a psu issue, i have this.
 
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