P5N-E SLI and gaming.

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Hi all,

I've got a P5N-E SLI motherboard, without SLI enabled games run fine - yet when it is enabled the game crashes and I have to manually restart the PC.

OS - Vista home premium - 32 bit
Power - 600W
GFX Cards - 9600GT (x2)
Motherboard - P5N-E SLI
CPU - Q6600 Quad core
RAM - 4GB
Harddrive - SATA II

- Also it may be a simple fix as the drivers, but the last time I installed those I had to reinstall Vista, so obviously I want to be doing that again.

Im stuck, Id really like a simplified step by step procedure so i can just go and do it and get it done with and finally play with the 2 GFX cards I payed for.

Apppriciated,
James.

 

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A latest link for driver downloads could work (Maybe from asus webside instead of nvidia?(Where i got my current drivers from))

But yeah, any suggestion will help

 

[Matt26LFC]

Wat drivers are you actually running? I take it ur 9600GT's are Asus as thats where u said u got drivers from? Wat BIOS revision are u running on your P5N-E Sli?

You say that it works fine with sli disabled. have u tried running both cards but seperatly? remove one and play on the other then swap them over and play the other jus to make sure that its not a fault with one of the cards?

Did u plug the 6pin connectors from your PSU into both ur cards so there both getting the power requried?

Not sure if u have too or not but is there anything in the BIOS that u have to change to run sli?

Wats the PSU Make? although u state 600w if its not of good quality that cud provide the trouble too.

Hope some of this helps u.

 

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EvoStream 600W CPU

Ive checked out everything hardware wise, which is the easy part.
The part Im bad at is the software/drivers etc.

Thanks for the help though - Im looking into BIOS changes/updates, and I got a feeling it could be the problem

 

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Ive installed latest bios and drivers and am testing now.

 

[Matt26LFC]

Ok, well if you've eliminated the possibilty of hardware faults, wud imagine you;ve jus not set it up correctly. It seems setting up Sli isn't always straight forward.

How have u got on with your new BIOS and drivers? Again wat BIOS have u installed? and wat drivers have u installed?