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

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can you tell more detailed?
1) freeze occurs when you do something
2) is it enough to do nothing and watch monitor?

1.) Freez occures randomly.
2. ) yes, after first freez is enough to watch monitor and wait to freez...
 
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for the sake of the experiment do next:

1) install patch and enable sli
2) wait for freeze
3) reboot and disable sli
4) wait for freeze
5) DONT UNINSTALL PATCH
6) reboot but in non-sli option
7) wait for something

tell what we'll you see
 

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for the sake of the experiment do next:

1) install patch and enable sli
2) wait for freeze
3) reboot and disable sli
4) wait for freeze
5) DONT UNINSTALL PATCH
6) reboot but in non-sli option
7) wait for something

tell what we'll you see

heheh, i will do that.
I will try that and report.

No, i didnt try diferent version of Windows.
 

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@258.96 @0.9: Until now, no crashes.

1h30m of CoD4:MW
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As soon as I have more data, I'll post it here.

EDIT: about 1h30m BF:BC2, no problems.
 
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MadBoy did you do?


oy,
Sry for waiting.

Yes, i did.

1) install patch and enable sli
2) wait for freeze
3) reboot and disable sli
4) wait for freeze
5) DONT UNINSTALL PATCH
6) reboot but in non-sli option
7) wait for something

all done,

but in 7 step, nothong happend, all working fine , no freez... in " 7) wait for something"..
 
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look what a pile of JUNK is left after 260.63 has been used (and another driver simply installed over it)... NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component ! LOL sounds serious ! :nutkick:

got few hours with 0.9a + 259.32, only good things to say about both SLI Patch and driver (after I wipe out 260.63 remains)
 

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oy,
Sry for waiting.

Yes, i did.

1) install patch and enable sli
2) wait for freeze
3) reboot and disable sli
4) wait for freeze
5) DONT UNINSTALL PATCH
6) reboot but in non-sli option
7) wait for something

all done,

but in 7 step, nothong happend, all working fine , no freez... in " 7) wait for something"..

after reboot in non-sli option, try to reboot in sli option but dont enable sli, and wait for something
 

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after reboot in non-sli option, try to reboot in sli option but dont enable sli, and wait for something

i did, and same problem again, freez, after ~ 5 min....
 

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anf if you will not enable sli, will you get freeze?

I must try.

I will uninstall SLI patch, uninstal drivers, boot in safe mod and delete rest with driver sweeper.

Should i then instal SLI patch first or drivers ?
 
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no matter

Freez in ~ 5 min.. with disabled SLI..

When some solution work, it work until first freez, and then no turning back to normal..
 

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it'll be ok if you will use for x64. you have windows x64, right?

yap, i posted wrong link :D , but i correct it. :) And downloading, u didnt say which SLI patch should i use ?
 

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