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

[killakee]

yes i did.. i was on the net only .. and then i got bsod ed

 

[anatolymik]

are you sure you use 0.9b?

 

[killakee]

oh noooooo... im so stupid.. i use 0.7 :S

 

[killakee]

uuuh... where are the 0.9b ?
do you have a link to it?
i cant find it...
its for win 7 32 bit ?

 

[anatolymik]

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

it's for all versions

 

[killakee]

well what do you know thanks man .. im deeply gratefull thaks again .. it runned vantage 3 times no prob... now to gametesting

 

[Triton.se]

I don't think there are many real users with BSODs etc, just nvidia ppl messing up this thread...

I've had dream game play with 0.9beta + 259.32 on Win7 x64. Not one single gfx issue (monitoring, 2/3D clocks, OC, low frame rates, microstutter...)

all is dream like !

EDIT ///

Anatomylik has the patience of Gandalf !

 

[Iching]

@ anatolymik

I have been using SLI Patch 0.7 and Forware 197.45 for over 6 months and it runs great. I would like to install 260 drivers with the newer patch (0.9). DO I have to delete the old patch or just install the new one over the old one?

Thank you!

 

[anatolymik]

@ anatolymik

I have been using SLI Patch 0.7 and Forware 197.45 for over 6 months and it runs great. I would like to install 260 drivers with the newer patch (0.9). DO I have to delete the old patch or just install the new one over the old one?

Thank you!

you'll see update button. just push it

 

[Iszak]

on 258.96 you have same issue?

Nope, 258.96 is rock solid. It only happens with 260.63. If I turn my pc off and then on - Windows boots normal. If I disable SLi in control panel before rebooting, Windows will also boot ok. Here's the picture of the BSOD, it's slightly moved but should be still readable:

 

[anatolymik]

rather interesting. did you try other systems?

 

[opapis]

here i am again if i am getting BSOD's in DOW 2 with 09b and 260.63, (gtx 260 sli) while vantage and furmark and mafia play ok is this a problem of the slipatch or something else, like hardware? on my 5870 (sold) i had no such problems.

 

[anatolymik]

it's not slipatch for sure

 

[anatolymik]

Nope, 258.96 is rock solid. It only happens with 260.63. If I turn my pc off and then on - Windows boots normal. If I disable SLi in control panel before rebooting, Windows will also boot ok. Here's the picture of the BSOD, it's slightly moved but should be still readable:

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try to update your system. win32k.sys can has problems

 

[opapis]

it's not slipatch for sure

so if it is problem of 09b i must have problems in other games too?

 

[anatolymik]

so if it is problem of 09b i must have problems in other games too?

of course

 

[opapis]

ok so I might be stupid but if i pass furmark multi-gpu for 2 hours you would say i am stable? or do you suggest other game for testing?

 

[anatolymik]

ok so I might be stupid but if i pass furmark multi-gpu for 2 hours you would say i am stable? or do you suggest other game for testing?

what games crash?

 

[opapis]

for now only dow2, furmark, mafia2, just cause and vantage ok. but i test only 1 hour on each

 

[anatolymik]

ok. but what games you have crasing?

 

[opapis]

Dawn of War 2

 

[anatolymik]

Dawn of War 2

how? crash on desktop?

 

[opapis]

80% crash on desktop and 20% bsod

 

[anatolymik]

80% crash on desktop and 20% bsod

what BSOD?

 

[Iszak]

try to update your system. win32k.sys can has problems

AFAIK it's updated, all the available updates have been downloaded and installed via Windows Update, unless you ment something else? It is an odd issue, perhaps some rare incompatibility case between my PC, patch 0.9b and 260.63 driver . I'd rather keep 260 driver over 258 because of the performance improvements for 460 GTX. And it's only a minor hassle, I just need to remember about disabling SLI before rebooting and reenabling it after.