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Anyone in Stoke help me out?

MeatLoaf

MeatLoaf

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Basically im having a pig of a time trying to get a pair of 8600GTS cards to work in SLI. They are identical cards.

Tried each card on its own and its fine in either slot
Both cards together give massive corruption in any 3d game with the bridge connected
Without the bridge its sometimes ok, but other times it crashes as above
Tried another bridge and get the same result
Its not the drivers as ive tried several, on XP and Vista 32bit

Is there anyone local that has an SLI board that could test these out for me as the the only option now i can think of is a faulty mobo, or does anyone want to test thier pair of cards in my board?

Cheers guys :)
 
try each card out on its own in atitool to check to see if either one of them is broken/artifacting. if both test out fine then its probably a driver issue since your power supply shoudl be more than up to the job of running those 2 cards.
 
Have you updated your mobo to the most recent bios version incase SLI support is better?

Tried running your overclocked cpu/ram at stock settings with it?

Have you downloaded the VISTA hotfixes for SLI from the nvidia website? http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html

Have you tried just WHQL drivers? or any of the latest BETA ones from the nvidia website?

I see that you also have a 520w corsair which should be powerful enough, but have you tried a more powerful psu incase you are not getting enough juice through?
 
Cheers for the replys so far, ive tried both card seperatly and both are fine, got the latest BIOS on my mobo, tried the vista hotfixes but says not applicable for my system ( just installed SP1 so maybe i already have them ), tried with cpu at stock but the problem remains and ive tried loads of drivers, even a different SLI bridge.

I doubt its my PSU, to be honest at the moment im pointing the finger at my mobo
 
Right, this is wierd because ive fixed it and scored a very healthy 9438 in 3dm06

Ive took my X-Fi out, removed a 2Gb set of RAM and used the drivers off the CD and ive no idea which one solved the issue :confused:

Right im going to put the RAM back in first and see what happens :)

EDIT : Put the other RAM in and it froze up and got a message saying display driver failed but recovered or something like that.
 
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I'm pretty sure its a RAM issue, but dont upgrade the graphics drivers beyond CD supplied till you can confirm.

Stick the X-Fi back in, I cannot see why that would cause a problem.

Have you swapped and booted with just one and every single RAM stick in case just one of your single RAM sticks is going a bit screwy? If i remember correctly some OCZ RAM likes their voltage up'd between 1.8-2.1 and some mobo's need to be told to do this for a stable system (i think?)

Is the RAM SLI tested? I know half the time companies stick that rubbish on to add a few pounds on, but could be the reason why you cant get the full system to work with it, got anymore SLI certified RAM you can try?

Also I think 32-bit OS's can only use/show up to around 3.2Gb of RAM, I know it isnt normally, but could this be a possible cause of the conflict? Whilst I know 3 sticks in will disable Dual Channel, will it recognise and run stable if you try with 3 in? Is there such a thing as a known possible issue with all 4 OCZ sticks being recognised in a 32bit OS with SLI?
 
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Well after days of messing im almost convinced that its a software issue as its fine on the older drivers.

Could still do with testing my cards together in another board tho if anyone can help me out, or test somebody elses cards in my board :)
 
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