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How Do I Enable SLI?

flavaone

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After installing my second video card and putting the SLI bridge, I connected the PCIe power connectors. Then I booted up my system and logged into Windows. After reading instructions on the nVidia SLI website, they tell me that I should see an SLI Capable System message like this:



But that is not the case with me. No message shows up informing me that I have an SLI Capable System. So I then tried going into the nVidia Control Panel. But my nVidia Control Panel looks like this:



It doesn't look like what they described in the nVidia SLI website. From their How To guide, the nVidia Control Panel should look like this:



Then you select 3D Settings, and your nVidia Control Panel should now look like this:



Then you select Set SLI Configuration under the Performance Tab, and you should get this screen:



I can't find any of these on my nVidia Control Panel. Can someone please help me enable my SLI ready system?
 

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Check device manager and see if your second card shows without any errors. Also, you may need to re-install all nVidia drivers
 

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Under where in the Device Manager would the video card be located? All I can find was nVidia Network Controllers.
 

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Benchmark Scores I dont have time for that.
display adapters up at the top
 

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your first image is the advanced window, then there are shot from the basic menu.


there is my advanced menu with the SLI option avaliable.


Device manager showing both cards are recognized.

My thought is that the drivers were only installed with the first card, or possibly a bad write of the driver altogether.
 
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Did you update your drivers? When I plug my second card I had to update my drivers and after reboot I had the "SLI capabel system" show up.
 

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flavaone

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Motherboard EVGA nVidia nForce 680i SLI Socket LGA775 ATX Motherboard
Cooling CoolIT Systems Freezone Elite Multiple TEC Liquid CPU Cooler
Memory x4 Corsair Dominator XMS2 1GB OC @ 1600MHz DDR2 PC2-8500 C5 Memory
Video Card(s) x2 BFG Tech nVidia GeForce 8800 Ultra OC 768MB @ 630MHz GDDR3 PCI-E Video Cards in SLI
Storage x2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache 3Gb/s SATA II Hard Disk Drives in RAID 0
Display(s) Dell UltraSharp 2407FPW 24.0" Wide Flat Panel LCD Display
Case Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 Black Aluminum Full-Tower ATX Chassis
Audio Device(s) Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series Sound Card
Power Supply Ultra X3 1000W Energy Efficient Modular Power Supply
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Benchmark Scores 3DMark06 Score: 17335
Nevermind, I just reinstalled the second video card and SLI bridge. Now my system recognizes the second video card and have enabled SLI.

Thanks for all your help guys!:toast:
 
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