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

[antandshell]

Thanks for sharing the info. Its does not make sense though. wouldn't 2 communication paths be faster then 1? unless the transfer rats from the sli bridge is just that fast that they don't need the PCI transfer anymore..... Well off to bed i go guess i will install the new patch tomorrow. Wonder weather its an upgrade or a fresh install.

Yes, for some reason, after gtx2xx series, the cards require the sli bridge. Both my gtx260s and 285s do not. Something nvidia built in to the newer cards I guess.

 

[anatolymik]

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153046

It's time to. Have a meet. I could finish this version at about 10th september, but i'm sorry i have a lots of work. Thanks.

 

[D4L70N]

Any way you could install the drivers 285.38 and BF3 to play good?

UD3R P55 / EVGA GTX460 SC SLI

I install many games go well, but others are a constant flicker on the screen ..

 

[jesseleite]

I’m also in line for the AMD version….just so you know Anatolymik.

BTW- can you charge for this now that your not infringing? Maybe a donation PayPal?

 

[Hota]

sorry wrong topic

 

[roasted3]

hi im new to here, and need a bit of help. i have a p5ld2 deluxe, and 2 8800gtx cards , only one card in mobo at the moment. i started off by reading through this thread, but theres so many pages, i have read quite a few, but my heads spinning a bit now lol , i was wondering if anyone who is upto date on all this stuff, i was wondering if they could let me know if sli would be possible on my mobo. its Intel 945 chipset and im running windows 7 .. i would be greatfull for any pointers, thanks. meanwile i;ll devive back into this thread and read a bit more , thanks in advance.

 

[antandshell]

945 Chipset working as far as i know. You have nothing to lose just install both cards download the hypersli patch and then you go into nvidia ctrl pnl and enable sli. that simple for me. You may want to update your drivers first. use the new beta drivers on nvidia'a site...Oh and make sure you have an sli bridge you need that...

hi im new to here, and need a bit of help. i have a p5ld2 deluxe, and 2 8800gtx cards , only one card in mobo at the moment. i started off by reading through this thread, but theres so many pages, i have read quite a few, but my heads spinning a bit now lol , i was wondering if anyone who is upto date on all this stuff, i was wondering if they could let me know if sli would be possible on my mobo. its Intel 945 chipset and im running windows 7 .. i would be greatfull for any pointers, thanks. meanwile i;ll devive back into this thread and read a bit more , thanks in advance.

 

[roasted3]

k thanks mate i;ll give it ago. sorry to be a pain but were do i find the hypersli patch for windows 7 thanks

 

[roasted3]

its ok i found it, thanks

 

[antandshell]

no pain at all. ask away. If i know the answer i will try and help and so will everyone else on here.

 

[roasted3]

tried it everything seemed to go ok , but when i rebooted i got the 2 OS options . so i selected windows 7 hypersli .. but it goes to start then it changes and looks like the way vista loads but it goes to the start up recovery , any idears .. what i done was installed the new drivers from nvidia , are there special sli drivers ? as i just downloaded latest drivers for 8800gtx , any way i installed drivers . then installed the {HyperSLI_0.1_beta} then rebooted thats when i end up at the start up recovery window, when i select normal windows 7 instal computer works fine, but no option for sli. o i also updated hypersli and tried again but same result.

EDIT: reinstalled everything and so far its working i just need to test on games. thanks.

 

[noob666]

Hello, I wonder in what order i should do all this? Driver first? SLI-patch 1.5? or should second card been put in computer first before install drivers and hypersli? please tell me!

 

[antandshell]

1)Driver clean install...use driver sweeper first to remove any traces of old drivers...
2)hypersli patch install . make sure run as admin and uac is off. restart bingo. most of the time anyway....

Hello, I wonder in what order i should do all this? Driver first? SLI-patch 1.5? or should second card been put in computer first before install drivers and hypersli? please tell me!

 

[noob666]

1)Driver clean install...use driver sweeper first to remove any traces of old drivers...
2)hypersli patch install . make sure run as admin and uac is off. restart bingo. most of the time anyway....

Okey! But when should i put in second card? should it be inserted from begining?

 

[antandshell]

Okey! But when should i put in second card? should it be inserted from begining?

Good question once i had no issues with both cards in from the start and once i did and i had to manual update 2nd card in device manager no big deal just click update driver and point to c/nvidia/drivers....either way will work.

 

[perche]

new quadro drivers

Quadro/Tesla Driver 285.58 WHQL

XP-32
http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/Quadro_Certified/285.58/285.58-quadro-tesla-winxp-32bit-international-whql.exe

XP-64
http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/Quadro_Certified/285.58/285.58-quadro-tesla-winxp-64bit-international-whql.exe

Vista/Win7-32
http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/Quadro_Certified/285.58/285.58-quadro-tesla-win7-winvista-32bit-international-whql.exe

Vista/Win7-64

http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/Quadro_Certified/285.58/285.58-quadro-tesla-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql.exe

Can any mod the driver for sli?

 

[johnspack]

Put both cards in first and add sli bridge. Then boot up and install driver and slipatch. Easiest way to go. Also, slipatch is obsolete now, you should use Hypersli found in this thread:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153046

 

[Slizzo]

Put both cards in first and add sli bridge. Then boot up and install driver and slipatch. Easiest way to go. Also, slipatch is obsolete now, you should use Hypersli found in this thread:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153046

Generally can't SLI a Quadro as they're workstation cards.

 

[perche]

http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/285.62/285.62-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql.exe

New whql drivers, ready for bf3, rage and batman arkhan city

 

[Cyberz]

285.62.... yay. Any fix yet? =)

 

[Slizzo]

285.62.... yay. Any fix yet? =)

Check out the new HyperSLI thread. Modded drivers are not necessary.

 

[Therealnutcrust]

Thanks a million!

You guys have all done wonderful! I was so bummed on friday when BF3 came in and my 2nd MSI 460GTX talon attack (refurbished) card came in, but.. "everyone know p5B Deluxe doesn't support SLI." - FALSE! ENTER HYPERSLI! you guys made it possible. saved me a ton of $ and time on a new board/CPU.

HyperSLI worked like a charm

Core 2 Extreme QX6850
6GB mem
MSI 460GTX Talon Attack x 2
P5B Deluxe board
Raptor 75GB
Promise Fast Tracks 750GB RAID5 (4 drives)
1TB open storage drive
(6 drives total in system)
Black Widow 850W PSU

So! a followup question that 'should' probably go to another forum heading, but since I'm here. I cranked BF3 to Ultra and ran it for like 1 minute into a solo mission.. the system locked on a black screen. I did a manual hard power shut down. then again, 1 minute into solo mission it just turned off by itself . Almost like it popped the APC unit. turned it all back on. and didn't try it again. Now, the question..

Is 850W enough power for all that? I could drop the promise card and put raid on the board, but i really like its "Webpam" management software. thoughts?

 

[Therealnutcrust]

You guys have all done wonderful! I was so bummed on friday when BF3 came in and my 2nd MSI 460GTX talon attack (refurbished) card came in, but.. "everyone know p5B Deluxe doesn't support SLI." - FALSE! ENTER HYPERSLI! you guys made it possible. saved me a ton of $ and time on a new board/CPU.

HyperSLI worked like a charm

Core 2 Extreme QX6850
6GB mem
MSI 460GTX Talon Attack x 2
P5B Deluxe board
Raptor 75GB
Promise Fast Tracks 750GB RAID5 (4 drives)
1TB open storage drive
(6 drives total in system)
Black Widow 850W PSU

So! a followup question that 'should' probably go to another forum heading, but since I'm here. I cranked BF3 to Ultra and ran it for like 1 minute into a solo mission.. the system locked on a black screen. I did a manual hard power shut down. then again, 1 minute into solo mission it just turned off by itself . Almost like it popped the APC unit. turned it all back on. and didn't try it again. Now, the question..

Is 850W enough power for all that? I could drop the promise card and put raid on the board, but i really like its "Webpam" management software. thoughts?

OK, well I was quick to be excited.. I ran some tests on FPS.. there seems to be no difference with SLI enabled. Am I nuts or am I missing something? It is enabled in the NVIDIA control panel. How ever can you check to see if SLI is enabled?

 

[samual]

A few days ago I went to the device before the people, I found my two EVGA adapters, and tell Updater to update the driver, and tell it from your outdated drivers .. SLI, it is still like I do not install the driver. so, I installed the driver directly from the mod folder of Supreme Audit Institutions still I did not install any drivers? But did not try LaunchMultiGpuApplet I do not know to it? Sorry IM IM race pretty smart guy ... K new computer let me know what to do here .. oh ya GPU - Z said dissabled ..

 

[chuckykilo]

hey guys i am running windows 7 32 bit on a asus maximus formula board intel quad q8200 @2.33 with 3 g of ram I have two cards 7950gx2 one for each pci slot and i want to make the two cards (4 together) work in Sli
i am running forceware 285.27 drivers.
i can load nvda control panel with all 4 cards showing on device manager but as soon as i maximaz 3d performance i get the bsod also and have to reinstall all the drive to be able to boot into windows also get an error in nvda panel application 3.9.731.0

Now the main question do i use the hyper sli patch, r do i use the slipatch 1.5 beta and then intall the moded drivers ?