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

urbturb · Jun 22, 2011

This patch is not working for me. I am receiving the "unable to get boot information" message when I run the patch. I have done a lot of searching and tried many things to get the message to go away.

First I checked disk management to make sure that my boot drive was assigned a drive letter. Next I ran the windows repair environment and scanned/fixed any startup errors. And finally I used the cmd prompt from the windows repair environment to run bootrec.exe. I tried the /fixmbr, /fixboot and /rebuildbcd commands. The rebuild bcd command was the only that did not complete properly. Any suggestions on how I can get this to work? I am so anxious to get SLI running!

PiERiT · Jun 22, 2011

DiogoCDS19 said:
But what motherboard do you have ?

It's a GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2.

DiogoCDS19 · Jun 22, 2011

urbturb said:
This patch is not working for me. I am receiving the "unable to get boot information" message when I run the patch. I have done a lot of searching and tried many things to get the message to go away.

First I checked disk management to make sure that my boot drive was assigned a drive letter. Next I ran the windows repair environment and scanned/fixed any startup errors. And finally I used the cmd prompt from the windows repair environment to run bootrec.exe. I tried the /fixmbr, /fixboot and /rebuildbcd commands. The rebuild bcd command was the only that did not complete properly. Any suggestions on how I can get this to work? I am so anxious to get SLI running!

Did you run it as admin ?

urbturb · Jun 22, 2011

DiogoCDS19 said:
Did you run it as admin ?

Yes, I did run it as admin and UAC is disabled. Everything on the initial screen looks completely fine except for the message telling me it cannot find the boot information

DiogoCDS19 · Jun 22, 2011

urbturb said:
Yes, I did run it as admin and UAC is disabled. Everything on the initial screen looks completely fine except for the message telling me it cannot find the boot information

Are you multi booting or just 1 O.S.?

urbturb · Jun 22, 2011

DiogoCDS19 said:
Are you multi booting or just 1 O.S.?

Just 1 OS.

DiogoCDS19 · Jun 22, 2011

Your boot drive has a letter assigned ?

urbturb · Jun 22, 2011

DiogoCDS19 said:
Your boot drive has a letter assigned ?

Yes, the boot drive is active and is assigned the letter "C".

johnspack · Jun 22, 2011

Did you ever shut down your computer improperly before? Have you ever run chkdsk /f on the boot drive? Data can get scrambled, you have to maintain your system in order to do stuff like this!

urbturb · Jun 22, 2011

johnspack said:
Did you ever shut down your computer improperly before? Have you ever run chkdsk /f on the boot drive? Data can get scrambled, you have to maintain your system in order to do stuff like this!

I will run chkdsk /f on the boot drive as soon as I get home today and report back.

johnspack · Jun 22, 2011

Very good idea, sounds like something got scrambled.....
Edit: usually you will want to do these things before you try
something like this. Slipatch does work, I can attest to that.
But make sure your system is clean and filesystem is intact.

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011

urbturb said:
This patch is not working for me. I am receiving the "unable to get boot information" message when I run the patch. I have done a lot of searching and tried many things to get the message to go away.

Possibly SLIPatch installer has a bug. Tomorrow i tell you what to do to help me to fix it. If you want of course...

urbturb · Jun 23, 2011

johnspack said:
Very good idea, sounds like something got scrambled.....
Edit: usually you will want to do these things before you try
something like this. Slipatch does work, I can attest to that.
But make sure your system is clean and filesystem is intact.

I ran chkdsk and I am still receive the same error message. "Unable to get boot information"

urbturb · Jun 23, 2011

anatolymik said:
Possibly SLIPatch installer has a bug. Tomorrow i tell you what to do to help me to fix it. If you want of course...

Sure, I would be happy to help.

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011

Your system is ok. I thought just now. You can do it now. What your OS?

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011

PiERiT P55 is a special case. If you have 2 PCs connected between them with firewire cable we can get know because of it is quickly. But if you dont we can do some research. Just tell me.

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011

urbturb said:
Sure, I would be happy to help.

As far as i understand you have window vista or 7. If it is, do next:
1) go to cmd (start->run, type cmd and hit enter)
2) type "bcdedit.exe > c:\1.txt" and hit enter
3) send c:\1.txt file to me
4) Tommorow a fix will appear

johnspack · Jun 23, 2011

Wait a go anatolymik! By the way, newest beta driver works great with slipatch 1.5 for me. Hope you can help this other guy too!

urbturb · Jun 23, 2011

anatolymik said:
As far as i understand you have window vista or 7. If it is, do next:
1) go to cmd (start->run, type cmd and hit enter)
2) type "bcdedit.exe > c:\1.txt" and hit enter
3) send c:\1.txt file to me
4) Tommorow a fix will appear

I just sent you the file. Thank you for your help! :respect:

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011

urbturb said:
I just sent you the file. Thank you for your help!

wait till tomorrow

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011

urbturb i just uploaded new slipatch. download 1.5 version. it has fixed installer. try and report to me how it goes.

urbturb · Jun 23, 2011

anatolymik said:
urbturb i just uploaded new slipatch. download 1.5 version. it has fixed installer. try and report to me how it goes.

Hi, I just downloaded the 1.5 version from the link in your signature and it is still giving the same error message. Did I grab the correct version? It has the same build number (81.32) as the 1.5 patch I had downloaded yesterday.

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011

urbturb said:
Hi, I just downloaded the 1.5 version from the link in your signature and it is still giving the same error message. Did I grab the correct version? It has the same build number (81.32) as the 1.5 patch I had downloaded yesterday.

it's the patch version. there is version installer to left from buttons. you must have 419 build. ok i'll continue debug. by the way, try unpack to separate folder with winrar and run slipatch.exe

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011

urbturb said:
Hi, I just downloaded the 1.5 version from the link in your signature and it is still giving the same error message. Did I grab the correct version? It has the same build number (81.32) as the 1.5 patch I had downloaded yesterday.

I found bug. Download 1.5 version again. It's amazing that it never happened before.

urbturb · Jun 23, 2011

anatolymik said:
I found bug. Download 1.5 version again. It's amazing that it never happened before.

I will test as soon as I get home today.

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