How To: Enable SLI on pre-i7/i5 hardware

TheWolf · Sep 15, 2009

Sorry still a no go. Ran a couple 3DMarks 03 test while I was there.

Still about the same. 56214 3DMarks

Speaking of sleep, I got to get some to. It just hit me big time.
I'm a crash & burn state at the moment.

Get some rest sveet, what I'm about to do.
We can do much better with some rest.
Good luck with your work. I normally don't sleep but about 6 hours a night anyways.
So I will probably be back up in 6 hours. I may sleep longer since I'm so tiered.
Cya l8ter.

Thanks for the help.

Papahyooie · Sep 15, 2009

so to do the modded tables you have to edit the files that were spoken of earlier in the thread? What would one put into the file for a foxconn board?

TiN · Sep 15, 2009

Papahyooie

Do next:

Download tools:

Intel ASL Optimizing Compiler
Microsoft ASL 3.0

Boot up your system with target board for SLI, make directory c:/ACPI
copy that tools into it.
Run command prompt.
Type: iasl -g

It must show something like this:

Send .dsl file to me

TiN · Sep 15, 2009

http://translate.google.com/transla....php?content.29&sl=auto&tl=en&history_state0=

Autotranslate guide of mine vision of STEP-by-STEP SLI trick by sveetsnelda's driver
Will work on it evening, goint to sleep now, no sleep all night.

anatolymik · Sep 15, 2009

I GOT IT. I patched hal.dll. And install not patched driver. IT WORKS.

http://rapidshare.com/files/280322448/hal.dll.html

This file you should copy to \windows\system32\ and restart the system and also install not patched driver.

Though SLI certificate you should also put into ACPI.

Patch also is needed to make it better. I keep working on it.

And please help me to test this patch.

P.S. If you run CPU-Z you'll see X58 chipset

. But i'm going to fix it.

SVEETSNELDA thank you for provided information.

Mussels · Sep 15, 2009

nice work guys

Solaris17 · Sep 15, 2009

excellent seems in a day or two...we might just have.

unmodded driver

patch 1

patch 2

ali enabled for all

congrats on the success very very good stuff.

@anat: do you know if you will need to modify mltiple versions of hal.dll? for example

winxp
winxp x64
vista
vista x64
7
7 x64?
or is it a one stop shop?

W1zzard · Sep 15, 2009

wow nice progress. will be difficult to make versions for other OS's because of driver signing

Solaris17 · Sep 15, 2009

hmmm then maybe that temp/test driver sign tool can be modified to make it a more permanent solution?

anatolymik · Sep 15, 2009

Solaris17 said:
excellent seems in a day or two...we might just have.

unmodded driver

patch 1

patch 2

ali enabled for all

congrats on the success very very good stuff.

@anat: do you know if you will need to modify mltiple versions of hal.dll? for example

winxp
winxp x64
vista
vista x64
7
7 x64?
or is it a one stop shop?

I know. And i'm ready. But first of all i have to finish hal.dll completly.

W1zzard said:
wow nice progress. will be difficult to make versions for other OS's because of driver signing

I'll try anyway.

anatolymik · Sep 15, 2009

Solaris17 said:
hmmm then maybe that temp/test driver sign tool can be modified to make it a more permanent solution?

I can speak English badly. Explain me easier what you said here. I didn't get it

TiN · Sep 15, 2009

Checked, SLI works already on UNmodded drivers (used Forceware 185.85 from nvidia.com, WHQL), Thanks to anatolymik, and his edited file Hal.dll, which change chipset ID on OS level to Intel X58. As stated, diag tools, like CPU-Z showing always northbridge id as Х58

Edited DLL for Windows XP 32bit hosted , hal.dll
Overwrite original one in c:/windows/system32/, store backup of original if something go wrong.

I love that P5B Deluxe with X58 northbridge

anatolymik · Sep 15, 2009

Thank you TiN for testing.

Mussels · Sep 15, 2009

i gotta admit, patching the OS to see the hardware as x58 wasnt something i'd considered... well done

sveetsnelda · Sep 15, 2009

Nicely done, anatolymik!!! Keep up the good work!

Now we've just got to get around the SLIC check. Modifying DSDT is annoying.

anatolymik · Sep 15, 2009

sveetsnelda said:
Nicely done, anatolymik!!! Keep up the good work!

Now we've just got to get around the SLIC check. Modifying DSDT is annoying.

Thanks!!!

You helped me very much. Now I'm working on Windows 7 x64

TiN · Sep 15, 2009

sveetsnelda

Yes, and not always can be done easily, as I already caught.

XS member, soundood, trying to insert SLIC into his AMD Cross-fire board, the M4A79-D got his DSDT table, but it's too heavy, ~0.5MB.

adding SLIC and trying to compile I've got this:

Maximum error count (200) exceeded
ASL Input: dsdt_asm.dsl - 16312 lines, 511155 bytes, 1799 keywords
Compilation complete. 201 Errors, 0 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 4 Optimizations

Maximum error count (200) exceeded
dsdt_asm.dsl 620:
c:\ACPI>

c:\ACPI>asl amd_asus.dsl.dsl
Microsoft ACPI Source Language Assembler Version 3.0.1NT [Aug 29 2006, 14:17:49]

Copyright (c) 1996,2006 Microsoft Corporation
Compliant with the ACPI 3.0a Specification

amd_asus.dsl.dsl:

411: Name (_T_0, Zero)
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(411): warning: not a valid reserved NameSeg

412: Store (OSYS (), _T_0)
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(412): warning: not a valid reserved NameSeg

413: If (LEqual (_T_0, One))
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(413): warning: not a valid reserved NameSeg

419: If (LEqual (_T_0, 0x10))
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(419): warning: not a valid reserved NameSeg

425: If (LEqual (_T_0, 0x11))
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(425): warning: not a valid reserved NameSeg

431: If (LEqual (_T_0, 0x12))
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(431): warning: not a valid reserved NameSeg

437: If (LEqual (_T_0, 0x13))
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(437): warning: not a valid reserved NameSeg

443: If (LEqual (_T_0, 0x14))
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(443): warning: not a valid reserved NameSeg

449: If (LEqual (_T_0, 0x15))
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(449): warning: not a valid reserved NameSeg

3073: If (ECEN)
^***
amd_asus.dsl.dsl(3073): error: unexpected ASL term type

c:\ACPI>

Erm, tools refuse to complile file, it's too big

But table with SLIC inserted corretly (as far as I see), and is here:

http://www.xdevs.com/sli/soundood.dsl

TheWolf · Sep 15, 2009

Good morning! Good news I see...

Here is a copy of W7 64bit Hal.dll if someone wants to have a look at it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=9be8ded9022472c35a3d773badf21430337688ad55328c1b64328c9cace34742

TiN · Sep 15, 2009

Good, we need just W7 32bit and XP 64 now.
Will try W7 sli mod this night. (but i have only 32bit version here now)

TheWolf · Sep 15, 2009

TiN said:
Good, we need just W7 32bit and XP 64 now.
Will try W7 sli mod this night. (but i have only 32bit version here now)

Sent PM with 64bit W7 for you to look at.

sveetsnelda · Sep 15, 2009

TheWolf, can you please post your modified DSDT you're trying to use? I'm still curious why SLI isn't working for you.

TheWolf · Sep 15, 2009

sveetsnelda said:
TheWolf, can you please post your modified DSDT you're trying to use? I'm still curious why SLI isn't working for you.

Here is the orignal & the one you modified.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a922389558dc290be62ea590dc5e5dbb32cab0c2d926ee27b8eada0a1ae8665a

TheWolf · Sep 15, 2009

anatolymik said:
I GOT IT. I patched hal.dll. And install not patched driver. IT WORKS.

http://rapidshare.com/files/280322448/hal.dll.html

This file you should copy to \windows\system32\ and restart the system and also install not patched driver.

Though SLI certificate you should also put into ACPI.

Patch also is needed to make it better. I keep working on it.

And please help me to test this patch.

P.S. If you run CPU-Z you'll see X58 chipset . But i'm going to fix it.

SVEETSNELDA thank you for provided information.

I replaced hal.dll but CPU-Z still show my board as X38?

TheWolf · Sep 15, 2009

sveetsnelda said:
TheWolf, can you please post your modified DSDT you're trying to use? I'm still curious why SLI isn't working for you.

Here, I did a new "clean" extract with iasl -g & zipped all files into ACPI.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a922389558dc290be62ea590dc5e5dbb32cab0c2d926ee27b8eada0a1ae8665a

sveetsnelda · Sep 15, 2009

TheWolf said:
I replaced hal.dll but CPU-Z still show my board as X38?

When I sent you the "revision 2" driver, did you patch the DSDT to show "ASUS" instead of "ABIT"?

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