**Official Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI NF650i Owners Thread**

I was wondering ( as my stand alone thread about my issue is going nowhere fast)..has anyone whos got this board so far had any video issues?
I get windows display but device mananger reports "vga card", its a 7900gto, and Nividia display dirvers wont install as they dont detect nvidia hardware to install to..

Please, has anyone got any suggestions before I send this back?
 
Wolv34ine said:
I was wondering ( as my stand alone thread about my issue is going nowhere fast)..has anyone whos got this board so far had any video issues?
I get windows display but device mananger reports "vga card", its a 7900gto, and Nividia display dirvers wont install as they dont detect nvidia hardware to install to..

Please, has anyone got any suggestions before I send this back?
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Are you using Vista? If so then you need to download one of the optional driver upgrades. It's obviously NVidia, but not obviously video related. Then it correctly recognises the card. As for the card reporting VGA - it is a VGA card, it's a PCIe VGA card - were you thinking AGP maybe?
 
Its PCI express and its on XP 32 bit.
I wish there was a definative guide as to what software to put on with these boards. Im getting other people saying "just try other drivers"..well I dont like that for two reasons. One, I onyl want to intslal the one set of drivers, so there is no old/new driver conflics. Two, I cant even try the ones I have right now as the installation wont take place.
I used the software on the disk supplied with the mobo..and usually thats all thats needed, except for the actual display drivers.

Im at a loss really, im hoping my new card will somehow magically "work", but if it doesnt, and it probably wont, im still stuck:(
 
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Which display drivers are you using? Only 93.71 picked up Sli for me and then performance was dire. Have you tried 91.47? Download the latest chipset drivers from Nvidias website as they are a lot newer than the ones on the disk.

I have just sent my board back for a refund. The retailer agreed with it so it's gone. I had enough of the many problems i was having. It looks like there are loads of people over on the Abit.Care forums (can't link to it as they have links to retailers). Problems with graphics, instability, lock ups etc. It's really not good enough.

I will have to wait until i can afford a 8800 now as there is no way i am paying a fortune for a 680i so that i can run sli. I would rather not take the cahnce with another 650i board such as the Asus in case it has the same driver incompatiabilities.
 
Am i right in thinking that the multiplier is locked when using a e6300? as i sure cant seem to change it, or is there some setting ive missed somewhere?
 
Mista.Gee said:
Not getting any problems with the motherboard back here had it running now for nearly 48 hours with no problems at all.
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Jesus I wish I was!

If I get it sorted and whatever it is (my stupid fault or THEIR stupid fault I will post)

But it does seem like some hardware configs are not wholly supported..and im not even talkin about overclocking.
 
pastymuncher said:
Which display drivers are you using? Only 93.71 picked up Sli for me and then performance was dire. Have you tried 91.47? Download the latest chipset drivers from Nvidias website as they are a lot newer than the ones on the disk.

I have just sent my board back for a refund. The retailer agreed with it so it's gone. I had enough of the many problems i was having. It looks like there are loads of people over on the Abit.Care forums (can't link to it as they have links to retailers). Problems with graphics, instability, lock ups etc. It's really not good enough.

I will have to wait until i can afford a 8800 now as there is no way i am paying a fortune for a 680i so that i can run sli. I would rather not take the cahnce with another 650i board such as the Asus in case it has the same driver incompatiabilities.
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My ASUS P5N-E SLi runs a pair of 7900GTO's no problems using the latest drivers under XP Pro. SLI under Vista is a pile of steaming poo though. So I'm running Vista Business for most things (Gigabyte DS4 platform, Borland Delphi 2007, Office 2007, SAP BS1 Dev.) and my 'games' machine with the P5N-E SLi in it is running XP Pro.
 
Latest Nvidia drivers arent recognising 7900gto that worked perfectly before.
Control panle lists "VGA" device at the bottom of the list.


Could this be a power issue? I have a 580 watt Hiperpower, and as I say it was fine before with a more power hungry AMD chip so it should be even more fine now!
 
Nickg said:
mista.gee have you overclocked, or running @ stock?

i am 100% stable @ 2.93Ghz (E6400) anythign above that and im not stable.
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Got mine running the same @ 2.93GHz on a (E6400) and quite happy at that not pushing any further as there's no real need to. Not experienced any problems at all running quite stable for 48 hours now.

EDIT: Only thing i have noticed is nTune doesn't show the voltage's only the GHz settings etc..
 
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well Gee let me know if you can make it above 2.93. i have tried to hit 3.1 and 3.2Ghz but having massive difficulty. whats your NB temps btw and voltage?

i can boot to windows - FREEZE -reboot-POST FREEZE- CLEAR CMOS.

let me know what settings and voltages your running also:)
 
Crash said:
Am i right in thinking that the multiplier is locked when using a e6300? as i sure cant seem to change it, or is there some setting ive missed somewhere?
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you can only go down & you may have to disable EIST etc..
 
WJA96 said:
My ASUS P5N-E SLi runs a pair of 7900GTO's no problems using the latest drivers under XP Pro. SLI under Vista is a pile of steaming poo though. So I'm running Vista Business for most things (Gigabyte DS4 platform, Borland Delphi 2007, Office 2007, SAP BS1 Dev.) and my 'games' machine with the P5N-E SLi in it is running XP Pro.
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That's half my problem though. I can't use 93.71 with my cards due to some sort of incompatiability. It just wipes out performance.

Is there any chance you can try 91.47 on your P5N-E and tell me if it picks up Sli please.
 
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