Sli difficulties

[gobrun]

Hi, I'm trying to get my two 8800's working in Sli but with no success.

The 2 cards are a Palit 8800 GTS 640mb & a BFG 8800 GTX 768MB OC2. I know they're different models but was informed that GTS & GTX are still compatible in SLI?

X2 Black Edition 5000+
Windows Vista SP1
4gb geil ultra ram
2x 160gb Western Digital SATA HDD's in RAID
OCZ 600W Stealth Xtreme PSU

I'm using the 169.25 Forceware, my BIOS is configured for dual cards and yes I have plugged the sli cable into both cards.

When I first turned the computer on Windows appeared to be automatically detecting the second card (the GTS). I rebooted and fired up device manager. In device Manager both cards are listed but there is a little yellow exclamation mark next to the GTS card. When I fire up the Nvidia control panel there is also no SLI menu under '3d Settings'.

In device manager under properties for the GTS it gives this rather vague paragraph:

This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)

If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system.

Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.

My first thought was not enough power seeing as I only have a 600w PSU but I doubt the computer would start at all if this was the case...

Any help is much appreciated. o7

 

[GingerNinja1989]

Are you sure those two are compatible? I thought it was only Crossfire you could mix GPUs in?

 

[Mud]

They aren't compatible.

 

[gobrun]

Ah ok fair enough, the 8800 GTX was a replacement anyway so no great loss. To ebay!

Cheers folks.

 

[-iceblade^]

what? sell the 640mb GTS...

 

[gobrun]

Yeah thats what I meant.

Btw completely off-topic but there is a program thats basically an upgraded version on the existing Nvidia control panel but it lets you adjust the fan speed manually. Anyone know which program it is? I'm not Rivatuners biggest fan so would prefer an alternative if there is one.

Ta.

 

[chaparral]

Yeah thats what I meant.

Btw completely off-topic but there is a program thats basically an upgraded version on the existing Nvidia control panel but it lets you adjust the fan speed manually. Anyone know which program it is?

Ntune (Version: 5.05.54.00) http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/ntune_5.05.54.00_uk.html


Or if you have one of these Nforce motherboards listed below, then you could use nForce System Tools with ESA Support http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nforce_system_tools_6.01_uk.html

nForce 790i Ultra SLI
nForce 790i SLI
nForce 780i SLI
nForce 680i SLI
nForce 680i LT SLI

 

[Diggsy]

Hey, what driver revision is needed to see the shader clock?

 

[chaparral]

Hey, what driver revision is needed to see the shader clock?

You see the shader clock with the nforce System tools

Or if you have one of these Nforce motherboards listed below, then you could use nForce System Tools with ESA Support http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nforce_system_tools_6.01_uk.html

nForce 790i Ultra SLI
nForce 790i SLI
nForce 780i SLI
nForce 680i SLI
nForce 680i LT SLI

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yeah cant be done, can't even do dual screens rofl, not a patch on CrossfireX, far superior that.