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

Triton.se · Aug 6, 2010

Glendor said:
Another quiet nite of gaming and browsing without any problems or crashes. I hope they can fix the problem with the latest driver, but 257.15 seems to be a perfect match for my system. I suppose it's time to start thinking about that 3rd 275oc and a larger PSU.........

Glendor...
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Antec 900
MSI 890FXA-GD70 (bios 1.6)
AMD Thubian 1055t @ 3.5ghz 28c/44c
Corsair H50 lapped w/ push:shoud:radiatorull config
2x4gb G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 @ 1333
2x250gb Seagate Momentus XT in RAID0
2x BFG GTX 275oc SLI & PhysX enabled
Muskin Enhanced 550w PSU
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257.21 and 257.41 also work 100% with SLI Mod. I wouldn't add a third card for Tri-SLI, you might get stuck with these 257 drivers, without proper SLI support for upcoming games.

Ex Inferis · Aug 6, 2010

I need a driver with 3D stereo!!!!!

I want... I need play my Dirt2 (and 3) with 3D vision ^^ Damn

Mussels · Aug 6, 2010

Ex Inferis said:
I need a driver with 3D stereo!!!!!
I want... I need play my Dirt2 (and 3) with 3D vision ^^ Damn

might be worth buying an SLI capable board then.

This hack is all well and good, but if you NEED SLI, or certain features... then the mod aint for you. this is for people willing to accept that some things just aint gunna work right, or work at all.

kudos to those making the mod, although i think you're fighting a battle you'll eventually lose, due to nvidia constantly screwing things around in updated drivers.

whitesedan · Aug 6, 2010

So I tried with disabling realtek LAN and HDaudio. First time happen in 20 minutes with a blank screen but came back 1-2 minutes later. Second time the bsod within 5minutes. just for kicks, ran furmark for 20 minutes and bsod again.

It seems like nvidia might have gotten the new drivers to disable sli hack.

I am currently looking into an intel i7 x58/P55 setup if a deal ever comes up. I'm sure future drivers are going to give me more benifits on these gtx 465's than the 257.xx.

Triton.se · Aug 6, 2010

whitesedan, wait !

Same problems we have exist on other systems THAT COMPLETELY LACK SLI MOD/HACK.... it's NOT cause of the SLI Mod..but nvidia maybe are poor on destroying for us (lol), they destroy too much and affecting GTX295 ppl..dunno..but I'm waiting till I see ALL but SLI mods are OK...THEN I know, no future

whitesedan · Aug 6, 2010

Triton.se said:
whitesedan, wait !

Same problems we have exist on other systems THAT COMPLETELY LACK SLI MOD/HACK.... it's NOT cause of the SLI Mod..but nvidia maybe are poor on destroying for us (lol), they destroy too much and affecting GTX295 ppl..dunno..but I'm waiting till I see ALL but SLI mods are OK...THEN I know, no future

Thanks for the information. I will wait a little longer and when nvidia decides to release new drivers, the testing will commence again. Hopefully this will be soon.

Triton.se · Aug 6, 2010

anabolic (hehe spell) also says 258 drivers + SLI Mod works for most russian guys...with other than GTX260 SLI... so, there again...SLI Mod on its own works.
32bit seems to work, ppl report so.
XP works also.

Bad: W7 x64 and GTX260 SLI

JDougNY · Aug 6, 2010

I'm also getting the blank screen after 5 minutes, when using SLI mod 0.8b and Driver version 258.xx
My system....
Asus Maximus Formula X38 (using Rampage Formula X48 Bios)
Intel Q6600 G0 @ 3.9 GHZ liquid cooled
2 x 2GB OCZ Reaper 1066MHZ
2 x 8800GTX in SLI - O/C'd and liquid cooled
Windows 7 X64 Ultimate (SLI mod 0.8b)

So, I'm back to driver version 257.21. I've been quietly using the mod(s) from here for quite some time. Having this mod is keeping me from having to drop major $$ on new hardware.

Triton.se · Aug 6, 2010

browsing SLI forums etc...this one catched my eyes...omg, read it, two posts:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=176370

You get that error msg when you have game running ( I tested)... now what has that anti virus app to do with gfx ? ...................... put in realtek and nvidia and we have a real soup.

oanvoanc · Aug 8, 2010

tried this setup:

winxp sp2 32bit
Windows XP SP2/SP3 32bit SLI Patch, version 0.7a
fw 190.62
gigabyte x58 ds4
7800gtx 512 sli

just tested 3dmark06 for a proper score and it seems to work.
no stability tests made yet.

edit:
fw 257.21 wont show the sli - enaple option for me

Glendor · Aug 8, 2010

oanvoanc said:
tried this setup:

winxp sp2 32bit
Windows XP SP2/SP3 32bit SLI Patch, version 0.7a
fw 190.62
gigabyte x58 ds4
7800gtx 512 sli

just tested 3dmark06 for a proper score and it seems to work.
no stability tests made yet.

edit:
fw 257.21 wont show the sli - enaple option for me

I don't understand why you are using the SLIpatch, the X58 supports SLI & Crossfire natively, right?

Mussels · Aug 8, 2010

Glendor said:
I don't understand why you are using the SLIpatch, the X58 supports SLI & Crossfire natively, right?

not all of them support SLI, actually.

They all support crossfire, and MOST of them support SLI - but some of the cheaper models had artificial limits put in to prevent SLI working, to make people cough up for the premium models.

oanvoanc · Aug 8, 2010

Glendor said:
I don't understand why you are using the SLIpatch, the X58 supports SLI & Crossfire natively, right?

the ds4 x58 just supports cf, but not sli unfortunately... :shadedshu

.trunzx · Aug 8, 2010

Does anyone have the modified bios file for a P7P55D? The original site crashed and lost the files...
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/14362/enable_sli_support_on_your_vanilla_asus_p7p55d/index.html

I tried the sli patch but I can't get the sli option unless I use driver 191.07 or lower.

My specs are:
Win7 64bit
Asus P7P55D
GTX 260 SLI

Any help is appreciated.

Wile E · Aug 9, 2010

oanvoanc said:
the ds4 x58 just supports cf, but not sli unfortunately... :shadedshu

Can you crossflash it with a GB board that does support SLI. Like a UD5 or something?

Triton.se · Aug 9, 2010

Yesterday I tested disabling "Intel ICH10 PCI-e Root 1" and "5" from Windows device manager...dunno what they are, already had "Intel Chipset Series 4 PCI-e Root 1" and "2"...I first tested disabling them, rebooted and games ran OK in 257.41... installed 258.96 but the usual 15 min freeze.

Today I'll do lil more I think... Flash mobo BIOS to older F9. I remember windows discovering new hardware (PCI-e Root 2) when booting first time with newer F10... just need to find the USB floppy or USB sticks.

EDIT ///

BIOS flashed to F9 (crappy one coz 50% of all reboots result in "oc failure" or BIOS recovery flashing), 3-4 minutes until black screen, which recovered after I quit game with ALT + F4, got pic back in 15 sec...

I notice few things: Primary display in BIOS (PCI, PEG, PEG2)...in F9, POST is visible even tho PCI is selected (and it IS by default)..With F10 u HAVE to select "PEG" to see POST messages.. Once in Windows u get screen whatever setting was in BIOS (PEG = PCI-Express Graphics). Also, lot more black flashing before windows desktop is visible with older F9 BIOS.

Will flash back to F10 soon.

Triton.se · Aug 9, 2010

Ex Inferis said:
I need a driver with 3D stereo!!!!!
I want... I need play my Dirt2 (and 3) with 3D vision ^^ Damn

NVIDIA 3D Vision Driver 258.96 BETA

LOL sry... 258.96...and BETA... what could possibly go wrong ?

Glendor · Aug 9, 2010

Glendor said:
Okay, I removed, and reapplied the 0.8b patch for Win7-64bit, and downgraded to the nVidia 257.15 drivers and everything seems fine. I have the SLI bridge installed, and I've run 3DMark Vantage & 3DMark06 several times without a single incident of any kind. The bench scores look very good. I'll update y'all if the problems come back.

Still going good after a weekend of Gaming and multimedia on the 257.15 driveres. No issues at all.

Glendor...
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Antec 900
MSI 890FXA-GD70 (bios 1.6)
AMD Thubian 1055t @ 3.5ghz 28c/44c
Corsair H50 lapped w/ push:shoud:radiator

ull config
2x4gb G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 @ 1333
2x250gb Seagate Momentus XT in RAID0
2x BFG GTX 275oc SLI & PhysX enabled (nVidia 257.15 drivers)
Muskin Enhanced 550w PSU
====================
Remember Children, Just say NO to big assed cpu coolers!

Triton.se · Aug 9, 2010

Glendor said:
Still going good after a weekend of Gaming and multimedia on the 257.15 driveres. No issues at all.

Glendor...
===================
Antec 900
MSI 890FXA-GD70 (bios 1.6)
AMD Thubian 1055t @ 3.5ghz 28c/44c
Corsair H50 lapped w/ push:shoud:radiatorull config
2x4gb G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 @ 1333
2x250gb Seagate Momentus XT in RAID0
2x BFG GTX 275oc SLI & PhysX enabled (nVidia 257.15 drivers)
Muskin Enhanced 550w PSU
====================
Remember Children, Just say NO to big assed cpu coolers!

Great work man, now we know (again) 257.15 are OK ! :rockout:

Ex Inferis · Aug 9, 2010

257.41 OK... ^^ no problems until now

Triton.se · Aug 10, 2010

ForceWare 259.31, new driver just landed..Is this the Eagle we've been waiting for ? I'm gonna test, feeling lucky today !

Could be the new stuff only lies in OpenGL.

whitesedan · Aug 10, 2010

Triton.se said:
ForceWare 259.31, new driver just landed..Is this the Eagle we've been waiting for ? I'm gonna test, feeling lucky today !

Could be the new stuff only lies in OpenGL.

good luck. let us know how these driver work. I wont be able to test them out until Wednesday.

Glendor · Aug 10, 2010

whitesedan said:
good luck. let us know how these driver work. I wont be able to test them out until Wednesday.

I'm going to wait as well; tired of being on the bleeding edge of driver tech. If it ain't broke, don't break it... :laugh:

Ex Inferis · Aug 10, 2010

downloading... I will test and return here ^^

Triton.se · Aug 10, 2010

Glendor said:
I'm going to wait as well; tired of being on the bleeding edge of driver tech. If it ain't broke, don't break it...

You got that wrong

If ain't broke, fix it until it is !

I haven't tested, probably won't since it's most towards OpenGL for Fermi/GTX400 series.. but I see there are other ones willing to test

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Cooling	Custom liquid cooling
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Video Card(s)	2 x 8800GTX in SLI - O/C'd and liquid cooled
Storage	2 x WD 500GB
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