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

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this driver is enough to enable SLI in WINXP 32bit?

No, depending on what motherboard you have you will have to edit the DSDT table & add a cert.
 

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I'd like to test your solution to enable sli on my Gigabyte EP45-UD3P with my two GTX 295 on saturday. Could you give my some instructions?

In a friendly way.
Thanks.

<EDIT>
I hope there is no bios modification to do.
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I borked my last Win7 x64 installation so I did a clean install and folowed these instructions exactly.

I'm using an ASUS P5Q premium board, using a 9800 GT amd 8800 GT (Flashed to a 9800 GT Bios). Any idea why it isn't working?

Do you have your registry patched? To make sure dump your actual dsdt table and search for SLIC. If you have dificulties just upload the file.

Thanks.

BTW if you use the latest HALMod v.0.8 you DON'T need the modded driver.
 
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Did you use the latest slistringinstall?

You could try manually placing the cert see this page: http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1555905&postcount=644
Use the cert in red to replace the one slistringinstaler place, then use the nvlddmkm.sys (rev2) modded driver.
Follow your steps above, but without use of halmod. If your bios has (ACPI 2.0) give it a try lastly.

Edit:BTW I don't see were you say Test Mode is enable. Is it? If not that's you problem.
Yes it was enable.Ok i did it again (this time i changed ACPI to ACPI 2.0 and install fresh windows) and it still wont` work.
I run slistringinstall and lunch cmd.exe as admin and i did a dsl file, then i modified by myself.
I followed by this site
http://xdevs.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.30
and this post
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1551569&postcount=367
This is link for 3 dsl files from my motherboard.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ktwzwmamtw5/TP45HP.rar
dsdt_P45B7001.dsl is original file.
dsdt_MOD_P45B7001.dsl is modified by slistringistall.
dsdt_SLIC_P45B7001 is modified by me.
I turned on Test Mode from command post, then i installed nvidia drivers. After this I replaced orginal file nvlddmkm.sys by modified nvlddmkm.sys (rev2) . I did restart and i saw this:
[url]http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8462/failedt.jpg[/URL]
By falcon86
I tried again witch slistringinstall + halmod 0.8 + unmodified drivers it doesn`t work too.
What am i doing wrong ?
 
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Do you have your registry patched? To make sure dump your actual dsdt table and search for SLIC. If you have dificulties just upload the file.

Thanks.

BTW if you use the latest HALMod v.0.8 you DON'T need the modded driver.

Here's my DSDT. I used the certificate from post #1320

I'll try HALmod v.0.8 tomorrow, I'm getting a new hard drive and will be doing a clean install of Windows again. I also enabled ACPI 2.0 in my BIOS today too.

So to clarify, the process I should follow is:
Clean install Windows 7 x64
Install 190.62 Win7 x64 WHQL Nvidia Drivers
Disable UAC
Reboot
Run SLI string installer as Admin select ASUS certificate. (or should I do it manually using the certificate from post #1320?)
Run HALMod v.0.8
DO NOT use the modded nvlddmkm.sys
Reboot

And I should have SLI. Looks good?
 

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Here's my DSDT. I used the certificate from post #1320

I'll try HALmod v.0.8 tomorrow, I'm getting a new hard drive and will be doing a clean install of Windows again. I also enabled ACPI 2.0 in my BIOS today too.

So to clarify, the process I should follow is:
Clean install Windows 7 x64
Install 190.62 Win7 x64 WHQL Nvidia Drivers
Disable UAC
Reboot
Run SLI string installer as Admin select ASUS certificate. (or should I do it manually using the certificate from post #1320?)
Run HALMod v.0.8
DO NOT use the modded nvlddmkm.sys
Reboot

And I should have SLI. Looks good?

This DSDT was dumped now, from your system, or was the one created by slistringinstaller?

If was from your system you should be SLIed by now.

And yes for the steps to be taken. It can be used with any ASUS string P6T/Ramp II, etc, and of course with the one in the post 1320.
 

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This DSDT was dumped now, from your system, or was the one created by slistringinstaller?

If was from your system you should be SLIed by now.

And yes for the steps to be taken. It can be used with any ASUS string P6T/Ramp II, etc, and of course with the one in the post 1320.

It was from slistringinstaller.

Here's one dumped with iasl -g

I didn't try Hal v.0.8 on this yet and had used the modded driver. Should I try uninstalling it completely and reinstalling the 190.62 drivers?
 

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It was from slistringinstaller.

Here's one dumped with iasl -g

I didn't try Hal v.0.8 on this yet and had used the modded driver. Should I try uninstalling it completely and reinstalling the 190.62 drivers?

Yes you could do that, unisntall de modded driver, install unmodded drivers, and then run the Halmod v0.8.

Mean wille, can you upload your original DSDT*.DAT file? THX
 

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Yes you could do that, unisntall de modded driver, install unmodded drivers, and then run the Halmod v0.8.

Mean wille, can you upload your original DSDT*.DAT file? THX

Ok, going to start that now.

Is this the correct file you're looking for?
 

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Ok, going to start that now.

Is this the correct file you're looking for?

Nop, the one without SLIC, if you can't, just point me to your bios download page or give me info about what bios version and motherboard model you are running.
 

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http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

ASUS P5Q Premium motherboard
BIOS: AMI, version 1306


Also, I uninstalled 190.62, used driver sweeper, rebooted, reinstalled 190.62, then used Hal v.0.8 and it's still not working.

OK, brb

P5Q Premium BIOS 1611
1. Fix chassis fan mode can't be saved after resume from S3.
2. Fix display priority is not correct when plugs two PCIE VGA cards.

I need to go ftp your bios isn't avaibe anymore for download oldest is 1406

Edit2: Even on the FTP site isn't avaiable, maybe one bios update is in order ;) , anyway I wil modify your uploaded dat file.

Edit 3: run as admin command prompt and manualy incert this dat file. ( eg. asl /loadtable -d DSDT_A1039001.ASUS.dat and then asl /loadtable -v DSDT_A1039001.ASUS.dat ) and reboot.
 

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OK, brb



I need to go ftp your bios isn't avaibe anymore for download oldest is 1406

Should I update it to the latest?
 

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Yes, you can, I'm not sure if it fixes your problem, because you already should have SLI. In you cpu-z it shows X58 chipset?

CPU Z shows me with an X58 chipset.

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Edit 3: run as admin command prompt and manualy incert this dat file. ( eg. asl /loadtable -d DSDT_A1039001.ASUS.dat and then asl /loadtable -v DSDT_A1039001.ASUS.dat ) and reboot.

I tried this and I don't think it ran correctly. I ran the command prompt as admin, the attached image is the result I had
 

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CPU Z shows me with an X58 chipset.



I tried this and I don't think it ran correctly. I ran the command prompt as admin, the attached image is the result I had

yes I know sorry, i uploaded the correct one, please download again.
 

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yes I know sorry, i uploaded the correct one, please download again.

Inserted the file successfully, rebooted. Still nothing.
 
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Thanks man, big changes on this version? I'm running CrossfireX now, btw I didn't had any problem in running crossfire with you modded hal v0.8, was just swapping cards and install drivers, Crossfire enabled fine.

about changes.
functions and code injected properly.
code made better
and other
 
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