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

[soundood]

ok ill wait,

@sounddood

F8 before boot "Disable automatic restart"

yeah, it was the first one and wanted to get it imaged again, i will do this next time

 

[anatolymik]

but load table again

 

[soundood]

but load table again

you want me to load table again, and F8 halt and take note of blue screen?

 

[anatolymik]

you want me to load table again, and F8 halt and take note of blue screen?

load table and hit F8 but you are not going to get BSOD

 

[soundood]

and i am loading the same table from earlier yeah?

 

[anatolymik]

and i am loading the same table from earlier yeah?

that i sent you

 

[soundood]

that i sent you

ok i loaded it, 'table overload succeeded' now just to get this right,

i am going to reboot, press F8, disable 'restart at BSOD' and then what? try and boot into windows?

 

[anatolymik]

ok i loaded it, 'table overload succeeded' now just to get this right,

i am going to reboot, press F8, disable 'restart at BSOD' and then what? try and boot into windows?

yes

 

[soundood]

ok i halted the BSOD, and it sais, 'that my bios is not fully ACPI compliant' i went into bios and enabled ACPI v2.0 but still get blue screen.

i think i need to re-instal win 7 with the new bios settings ehh?

i will post a screenshot in a moment

 

[anatolymik]

ok i halted the BSOD, and it sais, 'that my bios is not fully ACPI compliant' i went into bios and enabled ACPI v2.0 but still get blue screen.

i think i need to re-instal win 7 with the new bios settings ehh?

i will post a screenshot in a moment

set ACPI 2.0 Enabled and reinstall OS

 

[soundood]

set ACPI 2.0 Enabled and reinstall OS

this is exactly what i thought, i must have forgot to enable it last time i flashed the bios, ok

now heres my plan,

instal win 7 with new bios setting,
loadtable with your file anatolymik
reboot and get back to you

thank you so far anatolymik, and fingers crossed this will work this time

heres the bsod, not that you need it,

 

[anatolymik]

when you get installed it
get dsdt .dat file by using "iasl -g" and send me it
after it
install driver
use latest SliStringInstaller and latest HALMod

 

[soundood]

ok ill give you dsdt.dat in a second,

ok here it is, http://rapidshare.com/files/284912152/DSDT_A1161000.dat.html

i am going to create an image now of this instal, so i can retry it again if need be, back in 5

 

[anatolymik]

ok ill give you dsdt.dat in a second,

ok here it is, http://rapidshare.com/files/284912152/DSDT_A1161000.dat.html

i am going to create an image now of this instal, so i can retry it again if need be, back in 5

http://rapidshare.com/files/284919211/DSDT_A1161000.dat.html

try load this by using "asl /loadtable dsdt_a1161000.dat"

 

[soundood]

load this instead of using sli string instal?

 

[anatolymik]

load this instead of using sli string instal?

yes

 

[anatolymik]

did you get it after install os?

 

[soundood]

yes, after i instaled the OS with ACPI enabled in bios, and with ACPI driver in place from windows update, loading table now

 

[anatolymik]

yes, after i instaled the OS with ACPI enabled in bios, and with ACPI driver in place from windows update, loading table now

ok, i'm waiting for results

 

[soundood]

table overloading succeeded, rebooting now

 

[anatolymik]

table overloading succeeded, rebooting now

edit: ok booted into windows, what step next?

install latest HALMod and reboot

 

[soundood]

woot got the 'sli capable system woot, going to check options now

 

[soundood]

ok all good, i need to run some 3dmark to see how the scaling is, heres a screen,

anatolymik, i cannot express how much this means to me, i hvae been an AMD boy, and Nvidia boy for years, when AMD bought ATI it broke my heart, that doesnt matter anymore, becasue i now have the choice of SLI, and dont need to comprimise on my choices.

i owe you a very big beer

thank you again, i will post back some scaling info and also stay with the thread to see if i can help out anywhere

 

[anatolymik]

sounndood
very very very very very big thanks to you for your cooperation, testing and patient.

now i know little more about sli cert. i'm going to add alternate approach to slistringinstaller.

 

[soundood]

OK heres some screens of scaling, windows 7 64bit - 190.62 drivers

single GPU

2 GPU's SLI

scaling seems to be very good, granted this is only 2 8500GT's, but this is a great result as far as i am concerned, what do you guys think?