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How To: Enable SLI on pre-i7/i5 hardware

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Great work anatolymik congratz on your hard work!
Same to you as well aGeoM....
 

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Great work anatolymik congratz on your hard work!
Same to you as well aGeoM....

Welcome, every body here helped. :toast:

Edit:

Oh btw I have your TuT marked as a single page so when I'm ready for test AMD I have your quick ref.
Thanks for posting it. I'll share it with others.

Please share it, I'm waiting for more AMD's chipset SLI results. :)
 
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Welcome, every body here helped. :toast:

Oh btw I have your TuT bookmarked as a single page so when I'm ready for testing AMD I have your quick ref.
Thanks for posting it. I'll share it with others.
 
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ok. i found out something. now i'm going to try it. wait please who can

Here is the whole tablet for you, as you asked...

The driver nvlddmkm-64bit_rev_2.rar only works if you have Asus correct?
 

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hi guys, well im still waiting on my other card to turn up, but in the meantime,

i was having problems with a few things, after aGeom's post last night i tried LHalmod/ASUS string/instal drivers, and all is fine

before i was getting a blue screen due to the fact that the southbridge was still showing up an SB750, now it shows up as Intel :)

so although aGeom had all those steps before in his TUT post, i think it is as above,

my sequence,

fresh instal Win 7, turn off UAC and reboot,
Instal SLI string using slistringinstaler taking the ASUS option, reboot
Instal Halmod (using LHalmod) reboot
check CPU-Z now showing intel on both northbridge and southbridge
instal untouched 190.62 drivers from nvidia site, reboot

and i suppose i will have the sli option when i stick my other card in :D
 

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anatolymik...
YOU ARE THE MAN... WHATEVER YOU DID IT WORKED!!!!
Спасьба ты герой!!!!
 
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anatolymik...
YOU ARE THE MAN... WHATEVER YOU DID IT WORKED!!!!
Спасьба ты героеь!!!!

Post us some pictures! :D Congtatz!
 

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Do you think by using the same process with using a HALmod+unmodded ATi drivers that crossfire on an nForce board will see the light of day?
 

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i doubt this means allow crossfire

since crossfire is allowed on x58, why wouldnt an nvidia board being shows as x58 allow crossfire?
 

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since crossfire is allowed on x58, why wouldnt an nvidia board being shows as x58 allow crossfire?

you have a very good point mussels, if we extracted the DSDT from a crossfire board, and find the block, then apply the LHalmod to an Nvidia board, to show as x58

then the ATI drivers should instal ehh?

ohhh this would be soooo cool, nvidia and ATI guys united in thier quest for free choice

priceless :rockout:
 

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you have some problems with your ACPI. the matter is if you decompile your dsdt, and compile even without SLI cert, you will not able to compile it. compiler show an error message. if you have a chance reinstall your os

okay :) I just installed the latest official BIOS and will do a W7 x64 setup now. If I get it to work next step ist Vista x64
 

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seems like i came at the perfect time :D

i apologize for not reading this massive thread, i tried and was confused mostly anyway, but i have

amd phenom ii x4 955 am3
asus M4A79 deluxe am3/am2
4gb ddr2
nvidia GTX285
Win7 x64 RC

currently have a 4870 but won the gtx285 in a contest. is there any way to SLi it with what i've got (edit: after getting another gtx285)? i am relatively computer smart, but i would want a step by step how to. i will give mega-cookies for help.
 
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seems like i came at the perfect time :D

i apologize for not reading this massive thread, i tried and was confused mostly anyway, but i have

amd phenom ii x4 955 am3
asus M4A79 deluxe am3/am2
4gb ddr2
nvidia GTX285
Win7 x64 RC

currently have a 4870 but won the gtx285 in a contest. is there any way to SLi it with what i've got? i am relatively computer smart, but i would want a step by step how to. i will give mega-cookies for help.

do you mean sli RADEON and GEFORCE?
 
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