Help with 6800's in SLI...

[Unromantic__Me]

Hey

Just built a new system, everything is an up and running smoothly...except my graphics cards...I just cant seem to get them installed and running...I stick in the Cd, go to the windows drivers...then this message comes up after a lil while: The Nvidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware, setup will now exit...

When I explore the disk, and try and install the driver under the folder Win2K_XP, I get this message...Setup detected that ther OS in use is not windows xp, this setup program and its associated drivers are designed to run on win XP, the installtion will not continue....when I try it from the XP_X64 folder..I get the first message again.

Everything else is installed...all the drivers from the MOBO are...I think...I just cant seem to get this working...I swapped over a hard drive from my friends setup which is identical...and it recognises the GFX and everything...so they arent faulty...

The rest of my system is

Asus A8N standard
Seasonic 600w
AMD 4200+ x2
2GB Geil Ram
windows installed on a 40gb spinpoint

Any help on getting these up is appreciated

 

[paradigm]

Are you on XP or XP x64?

Secondly your drivers that came on a 6800 CD may well be utterly pants for SLI anyway, get yourself the latest from the nvidia website

 

[Unromantic__Me]

XP 64

And the problem is, my house is down from the internet at the moment, which means no access to the internet from there....is there a safe way to get the drivers form the pc im on, back to mine to the new build? How will I know which one is the right one?

 

[paradigm]

Download the latest x64 nvidia drivers from either http://downloads.guru3d.com/ or from nvidia's site itself. Any way you can get the drivers home will be "safe", be that USB pen and/or burnt to CD. The 84.61's for XP x64 are probably your best bet.

Any particular reason you went for XP x64? Its at present no quicker at all, and all your games will most likely be 32-bit anyway. Not to mention all the teething problems x64 has due to it being nowhere near as mature an OS.