How To: Enable SLI on pre-i7/i5 hardware - Page 228

urbturb · Jun 22, 2011, 09:06 PM

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, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by DiogoCDS19

But what motherboard do you have ?

It's a GIGABYTE GA-P55M-UD2.

DiogoCDS19 · Jun 22, 2011, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by urbturb

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, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by DiogoCDS19

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, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by urbturb

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, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DiogoCDS19

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

Just 1 OS.

DiogoCDS19 · Jun 22, 2011, 09:26 PM

Your boot drive has a letter assigned ?

urbturb · Jun 22, 2011, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by DiogoCDS19

Your boot drive has a letter assigned ?

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

johnspack · Jun 22, 2011, 09:36 PM

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, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by johnspack

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, 09:43 PM

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, 02:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by urbturb

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, 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnspack

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, 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anatolymik

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, 02:16 AM

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

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011, 02:23 AM

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, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by urbturb

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, 02:34 AM

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, 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anatolymik

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!

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by urbturb

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

wait till tomorrow

anatolymik · Jun 23, 2011, 01:04 PM

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, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by anatolymik

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, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by urbturb

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, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by urbturb

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, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anatolymik

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.

System Name:	pooter
Processor:	Intel E8400 @ 4GHz
Motherboard:	Gygabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
Cooling:	Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Memory:	2 x 4gb G.SKILL DDR2 800
Video Card:	2 x GeForce GTX 280
Hard Disk:	Intel X25-M 80gb SSD
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung P2450H
Case:	Lian Li PC60BPLUSII
PSU:	Silverstone ST75F 750W
Software:	Windows 7 x64

System Name:	Flippity Floppity Floop
Processor:	Intel Core i5-2500K
Motherboard:	MSI Z68MA-G45
Cooling:	COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus
Memory:	G.SKILL 4GB DDR3
Video Card:	ASUS GeForce GTX 580
Hard Disk:	Kingston SSDNow V+100 96GB
Optical Drive:	SAMSUNG SH-S223L
CRT/LCD Model:	ASUS VH236H
Case:	COOLER MASTER HAF 922
Sound Card:	Onboard
PSU:	OCZ ModXStream Pro 600W
Software:	Microsoft Windows 7 Pro 64-bit

System Name:	BlueFire
Processor:	Core 2 Quad Q9450 (Lapped) @ 3,7Ghz - 1,31V
Motherboard:	P5Q-Deluxe
Cooling:	Zalman 9700 LED (Lapped)
Memory:	4Gb Kingston DDR2 @ 1052mhz
Video Card:	Nvidia Palit GTX460 SLI - HyperSLI (Ty anatolymik + All Team)
CRT/LCD Model:	Dell SE198WFP
Case:	CoolerMaster HAF 922
PSU:	Sapphire FirePsu 625W
Software:	Windows 8 - 64bit

System Name:	pooter
Processor:	Intel E8400 @ 4GHz
Motherboard:	Gygabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
Cooling:	Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Memory:	2 x 4gb G.SKILL DDR2 800
Video Card:	2 x GeForce GTX 280
Hard Disk:	Intel X25-M 80gb SSD
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung P2450H
Case:	Lian Li PC60BPLUSII
PSU:	Silverstone ST75F 750W
Software:	Windows 7 x64

System Name:	BlueFire
Processor:	Core 2 Quad Q9450 (Lapped) @ 3,7Ghz - 1,31V
Motherboard:	P5Q-Deluxe
Cooling:	Zalman 9700 LED (Lapped)
Memory:	4Gb Kingston DDR2 @ 1052mhz
Video Card:	Nvidia Palit GTX460 SLI - HyperSLI (Ty anatolymik + All Team)
CRT/LCD Model:	Dell SE198WFP
Case:	CoolerMaster HAF 922
PSU:	Sapphire FirePsu 625W
Software:	Windows 8 - 64bit

Jun 22, 2011, 09:06 PM	#5676
urbturb Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 12 (0.02/day) Thanks: 5 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post System Specs	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!

Jun 22, 2011, 09:26 PM	#5682
DiogoCDS19 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Portugal Posts: 209 (0.26/day) Thanks: 43 Thanked 24 Times in 22 Posts System Specs	Your boot drive has a letter assigned ?

Jun 22, 2011, 09:36 PM	#5684
johnspack Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nelson B.C. Canada Posts: 3,750 (1.80/day) Thanks: 283 Thanked 754 Times in 519 Posts System Specs	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! __________________ Heatware: http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=73875 Clan !! The Fighting 24th !! http://fxxiv.forumotion.ca/ Buy the games you like! Boycott the garbage! Cruncher: P6T Xeon ES W3570 6Gbs Ram 1xgtx285 1xgtx260

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Motherboard:	Asus Rampage II Gene
Cooling:	Noctua NH-D14, 8 case fans
Memory:	24GB gskill ripjaws@ 1800mhz
Video Card:	Evga GTX480 + GTX285 Physx + TrackIR 5
Hard Disk:	WD Black 1TB 64mb cache + Spinpoint F1 750g backup + 2TB Seagate backup + 320GB Seagate backup
Optical Drive:	LG BH12LS38 Blu Ray burner
CRT/LCD Model:	Syncmaster 2443BW 1920x1200 Lcd + 19" ViewSonic Lcd
Case:	Antec 1200
Sound Card:	Onboard
PSU:	Silverstone 850Watt Strider+ Modular
Software:	Win7 x64 SP1 Ultimate
Benchmarks:	Time to upgrade to 680s....

Jun 22, 2011, 09:43 PM	#5686
johnspack Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nelson B.C. Canada Posts: 3,750 (1.80/day) Thanks: 283 Thanked 754 Times in 519 Posts System Specs	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. __________________ Heatware: http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=73875 Clan !! The Fighting 24th !! http://fxxiv.forumotion.ca/ Buy the games you like! Boycott the garbage! Cruncher: P6T Xeon ES W3570 6Gbs Ram 1xgtx285 1xgtx260

Jun 23, 2011, 02:16 AM	#5690
anatolymik Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,421 (0.97/day) Thanks: 98 Thanked 789 Times in 307 Posts	Your system is ok. I thought just now. You can do it now. What your OS? __________________ HyperSLI 0.9 HyperSLI 0.96

Jun 23, 2011, 02:23 AM	#5691
anatolymik Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,421 (0.97/day) Thanks: 98 Thanked 789 Times in 307 Posts	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. __________________ HyperSLI 0.9 HyperSLI 0.96

Jun 23, 2011, 02:34 AM	#5693
johnspack Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nelson B.C. Canada Posts: 3,750 (1.80/day) Thanks: 283 Thanked 754 Times in 519 Posts System Specs	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! __________________ Heatware: http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=73875 Clan !! The Fighting 24th !! http://fxxiv.forumotion.ca/ Buy the games you like! Boycott the garbage! Cruncher: P6T Xeon ES W3570 6Gbs Ram 1xgtx285 1xgtx260

Jun 23, 2011, 01:04 PM	#5696
anatolymik Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,421 (0.97/day) Thanks: 98 Thanked 789 Times in 307 Posts	urbturb i just uploaded new slipatch. download 1.5 version. it has fixed installer. try and report to me how it goes. __________________ HyperSLI 0.9 HyperSLI 0.96

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