FatRakoon that's very kind of you to go to all of that effort and make your findings available for me and others here.
No no...
As I said, I wanted to retry vista in that PC anyway, I have simply moved its date from the weekend, to tonight, thats all... I was doing it anyway.
I think you meant 15.01 for the chipset drivers for Vista and not 6.86 which you have typed? The 6.86's are for Windows XP.
Yeah, my bad... Trying to type everything down for you too quickly, I just made a silly mistake, but at least you noticed it eh?
I am still left wondering whether you had the SLI option because you had already selected SLI mode when you had the 6600GT's in.
Yes, but SLI mode did not come up when I first put the 6800's in and then once Vista saw the new cards and reinstalled the drivers for the 6800s instead of the 660's, SLI came up.
If you still have the machine in the same state, I would be interested to know if the SLI option is still available with the 6800GT's and the LATEST release drivers (163.69).
Yes, I have the cards for the night.
I will install the latest shortly then ok? - I need to Download them., plus I have to spend time with the wife cos my mum has the scrotes for the night, so I will let you know shortly ok.
Oh I forgot I was going to ask what FoldingAtHome is?
All you need to know is here ...
http://folding.stanford.edu/
Putting it into a very short line would be "that it uses the power of peoples PCs to try to find the cure for diseases"
Its a lot to it that that, but thats pretty much summing it up in a nutshell.
As for the Motherboards I can't believe you have so much money and desperation to get your SLI going that you purchased 3 Motherboards
LOL
Its not that simple...
I just fancied it for a laugh originally, and I had a few issues, but I eventually got it going.
Now, this was with XP32
Then, I upped to XP64 and I was unable to sort it properly, and a mate suggested, that I should up the Firmware on both, and sure enough they were different, but I kind of killed one of them, so, for a while, the card was dumped in a box.
Doing a sort out, I found it, and I thought sod it... I am going to ask Gigabyte about it.. The help I had from them was absolutely amazing... I told them the facts and I didnt lie, I said I had 2 and that I tried flashing but the flash didnt seem to go right, and that nothing I could do, would fix it??? - They sent me a number of different flasher programs and different flashes and the 4th try, it worked. I then realised that although both cards are now fully working, I also flashed the good card to this Hybrid Firmware, so that I knew that both would be 100% spot on.
Now, this has gone on for several months of course from when I first mesed the flash up, to when Gigabyte helped me fix it, and it gave me sucha massive boost at the time and I was buzzing like hell to get this card resurrected like I did.
Anyway, I set about throwing it onto a PC again, and so, I set about it again, but this time, I could not do it on any of my Versions of Windows, and then, I htought that maybe I have knackered the Board up?
What we had here then, is that the Board I got from the MM and it had ben a great board, but since its second hand, its served its duty, so perhaps its time. I liked it and decided to get the same, and I saw the Premium... No I didnt, I mean the Deluxe model..Bear with me, I have just been messing with Vista Premuim and I got that word in my head all the time? - But I was so impatient that I decided to buy another one cos *** supplier could deliver the next day, and the new one was only £35 so I thought stuff it...
Its not like I have loads of money floating around or anything, but just to throw a little show-off into it, I have extended my house and built a LAN room purely to have all my PCs in, and my slowest running PC at this time is a Newcastle 3000 and thats running at 2.5 At this time.
I actually found out on Friday that the company for which I work is going into liquidation and that tomorrow is going to be my last day of employment
Listen mate... The whole of the UK is in the same boat. We need to stop importing cheap and nasty stuff, and start making the stuff in the UK again, because the UK is going to suffer seriously in the end because there is no jobs, and too many people.
I am entitled to a little redundancy pay so if I can find a job soon enough I hope to be able to treat myself to a new Motherboard, RAM, CPU and graphics card with some of the redundancy. I shall purchase a single modern card so as not to have to bother with SLI
Good news out of bad.
A friend of mine has just lost his job... The factory he works in has closed down and he is getting 7K redundancy.
Now, 5 years ago, when the admins came in, they said that if he lost his job, he would get about 25K.
He managed to keep his job and the factory was saved, but what has happened this time round, is that the management that came in have been robbing the factory blind and they have closed it down and now he only has the minimum govt payout which is only 7 grand! - hell man! 30 odd years of loyalty down the drain eh?
@both of you.....
My machine is...
A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 4200+ X2 Dual Core
1Gb Fast Corsair RAM
2 X 6800GT's in SLI
I was about to say the specs on my A8N are very similar, but then I realised that is bloody obvious, so I wont say a word... LOL
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Ok listen... I will re-do the drivers and get back to you ok?
anything else in particular you fancy me trying out?
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