VISTA WON'T RECOGNIZE 2ND VIDEO CARD.

[Guest afwxguy3691]

I have been racking my brain over this one. I am trying to run an SLI set up.

I have current bios updated drivers and still Vista only recognizes one

video card. I have searched other forums and I have yet to find a solution.

If anyone has any advice for a fellow gamer please help. my System specs are

below;

 

Q6600

ASUS P5N-D MOBO

4G OCZ DD2 800

500 GIG WD HD

2X 8800 GT

880W PWR SUPPLY

[Guest Bobby Johnson]

Re: VISTA WON'T RECOGNIZE 2ND VIDEO CARD.

 

Have you opened the nvidia control panel or Display

Properties and ensured it is in the SLI multi-GPU mode?

 

Does the BIOS indicate you have SLI-Ready Memory is Enabled?

 

 

afwxguy3691 wrote:

> I have been racking my brain over this one. I am trying to run an SLI set up.

> I have current bios updated drivers and still Vista only recognizes one

> video card. I have searched other forums and I have yet to find a solution.

> If anyone has any advice for a fellow gamer please help. my System specs are

> below;

>

> Q6600

> ASUS P5N-D MOBO

> 4G OCZ DD2 800

> 500 GIG WD HD

> 2X 8800 GT

> 880W PWR SUPPLY

[Guest Greg R]

Re: VISTA WON'T RECOGNIZE 2ND VIDEO CARD.

 

I'd make sure you have the power cables connected to the second card and if

you are using a splitter of some kind that you are not sharing the same

plugs with the other card. And since the newer boards don't have a

circuit board to flip from single to SLI on the mother board anymore I

believe there is a setting in the BIOS to enable/disable SLI still.

 

 

"afwxguy3691" <afwxguy3691@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:3C4402BA-6B85-4513-AF64-C1D89F4C70B4@microsoft.com...

>I have been racking my brain over this one. I am trying to run an SLI set

>up.

> I have current bios updated drivers and still Vista only recognizes one

> video card. I have searched other forums and I have yet to find a

> solution.

> If anyone has any advice for a fellow gamer please help. my System specs

> are

> below;

>

> Q6600

> ASUS P5N-D MOBO

> 4G OCZ DD2 800

> 500 GIG WD HD

> 2X 8800 GT

> 880W PWR SUPPLY

[Guest afwxguy3691]

Re: VISTA WON'T RECOGNIZE 2ND VIDEO CARD.

 

well thanks guys for your input. I believe that I just confirmed my worst

fear. Its a bad PCI-E slot on the motherboard. According to the manual I

should be able to run a single card in either slot and it should work. So I

remove a card and switch them around both cards will power up but my monitor

stays blank when I have one in the black slot. :(

 

So now I have new problem since I am going to have to RMA the motherboard.

Hopefully Microsoft will let me reuse my vista disk.

 

"Greg R" wrote:

> I'd make sure you have the power cables connected to the second card and if

> you are using a splitter of some kind that you are not sharing the same

> plugs with the other card. And since the newer boards don't have a

> circuit board to flip from single to SLI on the mother board anymore I

> believe there is a setting in the BIOS to enable/disable SLI still.

>

>

> "afwxguy3691" <afwxguy3691@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:3C4402BA-6B85-4513-AF64-C1D89F4C70B4@microsoft.com...

> >I have been racking my brain over this one. I am trying to run an SLI set

> >up.

> > I have current bios updated drivers and still Vista only recognizes one

> > video card. I have searched other forums and I have yet to find a

> > solution.

> > If anyone has any advice for a fellow gamer please help. my System specs

> > are

> > below;

> >

> > Q6600

> > ASUS P5N-D MOBO

> > 4G OCZ DD2 800

> > 500 GIG WD HD

> > 2X 8800 GT

> > 880W PWR SUPPLY

>

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: VISTA WON'T RECOGNIZE 2ND VIDEO CARD.

 

You won't have any issues with reinstalling Windows. Even if it is an OEM

copy it will be OK since the mobo isn't really changing, just being replaced

by the same model.

 

"afwxguy3691" <afwxguy3691@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:7F309357-167A-419F-BABD-B7033ED7C66C@microsoft.com...

> well thanks guys for your input. I believe that I just confirmed my worst

> fear. Its a bad PCI-E slot on the motherboard. According to the manual I

> should be able to run a single card in either slot and it should work. So

> I

> remove a card and switch them around both cards will power up but my

> monitor

> stays blank when I have one in the black slot. :(

>

> So now I have new problem since I am going to have to RMA the motherboard.

> Hopefully Microsoft will let me reuse my vista disk.

>

> "Greg R" wrote:

>

>> I'd make sure you have the power cables connected to the second card and

>> if

>> you are using a splitter of some kind that you are not sharing the same

>> plugs with the other card. And since the newer boards don't have a

>> circuit board to flip from single to SLI on the mother board anymore I

>> believe there is a setting in the BIOS to enable/disable SLI still.

>>

>>

>> "afwxguy3691" <afwxguy3691@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:3C4402BA-6B85-4513-AF64-C1D89F4C70B4@microsoft.com...

>> >I have been racking my brain over this one. I am trying to run an SLI

>> >set

>> >up.

>> > I have current bios updated drivers and still Vista only recognizes one

>> > video card. I have searched other forums and I have yet to find a

>> > solution.

>> > If anyone has any advice for a fellow gamer please help. my System

>> > specs

>> > are

>> > below;

>> >

>> > Q6600

>> > ASUS P5N-D MOBO

>> > 4G OCZ DD2 800

>> > 500 GIG WD HD

>> > 2X 8800 GT

>> > 880W PWR SUPPLY

>>