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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    Sorted OK Fellas, It turned out that the GFX card was faulty, sent for an RMA but they didn't carry the GX2's anymore, in fact they say that 9800GX's have been discontinued... SO i upgraded to an EVGA GTX 260 for free:) Everything working fine now! 1 question thu: I have a GeForce...
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    Hi qubit! U got it right when i said back to normal i.e. saw 2 adapters in device manager. I totally agree... this is one heavy whopper of a card and it's a tight squeeze to line it up and install... I'll try cleaning the both the connector and pci-e slot and make sure that all is nice and...
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    FLASH UPDATE!!!! Right so i've just done the following: 1- shut down the pc 2- cracked open the case 3- fiddled the gx2 card in its slot a bit 4- booted up and it was back to normal :confused: Now tending to think that it's gotta be a hardware glitch, either from the card or the...
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    OK this is REALLY starting to piss me off... Earlier today I shut down the pc before heading off to work... there were 2 GX2 in the device manager and SLI was available in NCP... Just came back, booted up and.... BACK TO SQUARE 1 :cry: No SLI in NCP... 1 display adapter in device...
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    Hi Raptor, I uninstalled the mobo & graphics drivers in safe mode as you suggested, switched the power connections on the card and re-seated it... AND NOW IT WORKS!!!! :toast: Haven't installed all of the nForce drivers but at least i have Physx AND SLI options... not too keen to...
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    thanx qbit, I'll start by reformatting my system drive for a fresh install of vista64 and take it from there, i'll do it over the next coupla days and let you know how it goes... PeAcE4now
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    OK, so over the last couple of hours i've done the following: 1- Uninstalled the driver completely and rebooted 2- After the reboot, I saw 2 graphics controllers in the device manager 3- Fresh installed the new driver and am now back to a single card in device manager :banghead: I even...
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    nice1 m8 will try now and get back to u with the result
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    Um, h8 to say this, but i already fresh installed it after it arrived (had a problem with the RAID array):P But the driver i used with the shipped discs also showed multi-gpu (if memory serves) and it disappeared after the update... so guess what i should do is compeletley remove the...
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    Come to think of it... Maybe I should try reinstalling the old driver and see what happens before i try to switch slots? is there anyway i could TOTALLY remove the old driver?
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    the last time i've seen the multi-gpu option was with the nforce 17x driver when i received the pc... did the updates and it disappeared, so am tending to think that it's a driver bug or something :confused: Any input welcome...
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    Yep, they're both 16x (mobo 790i Ultra), think I'll give it a shot...
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    Fellas, do u think it will make a difference if I switch the card's pcie slot?
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    Yep, installed the latest x64 driver yesterday but no cigar :(:( I looked in to the mobo bios setting but there nothing for enabling\disabling SLI :confused:
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    9800GX2 Problem on Vista Ultimate 64 Bit

    Ok, I felt that there was something wrong here :( Vista is fully patched SP1 and all Latest 790i software installed Latest geforce driver (downloaded yesterday) installed and no qubit, it IS the 9800GX2 in there :banghead:
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