Help ! :)

[rojones]

System Spec listed in Sig.

I was happily running Windows XP SP2 with the latest Nvidia Drivers and SLI enabled no problems what so ever. I made the worlds biggest mistake thinking that going to Vista wouldn't be a problem. Anyway to cut a long story short when Vista booted up and i installed all the drivers etc i enabled SLI via the nvidia control panel. It then crashed my machine with the dreaded BSOD and a message saying something to do with IRQL.

After numerous google searches etc i came to the conclusion i was wasting my time and went back to trusty (or so i thought) Windows XP SP2. but to my horror after installing all the drivers again, whenever i enable SLI the machine just reboots without any message or BSOD and loads back in to windows with SLI not anabled.

Anyone with any suggestions would be very welcome as im at my wits end

Thanks.

P.S I tried an older version of the Nvidia driver incase that was causing an issue (which is shouldn't have) as this is what i was using in the begining.

Morale of the story, if it aint broke dont fix it !

 

[rojones]

after some forums searching ... i found that someone simply switched their Graphics cards around (swap slots) and it resolved the problem. Touch Wood it appears to have for me so far, i can now enable sli and it stays without a BSOD. Im gonna try run some games etc to see if it works.

 

[thefishdude]

hope you got it all sorted sounds anightmare. i agree with your if it aint broke dont fix

 

[rojones]

yeh the swapping the Graphics cards slots worked. god knows why, but i found it on the slizone forum that it worked for someone else.

Windows can be soo infuriating for no obvious reason at times, just got XP back up and running gonna leave it at this now, despite the fact Vista was probably not to blame, im not gonna try and find out