GIGABYTE X58 SLI PROBLEMS

[theprofessional85]

I HAVE 2 GIGABYTE 285 GTX GRAPHIC CARD ON THE GIGABYTE X58 MOTHERBORAD AND IT WILL NEVER SHOW THE SLI TAB IN THE NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL IT WILL NEVER ALLOW ME TO ENABLE SLI WHAT COULD BE THE PROBLEM I HAVE 1000WATT POWER SUPPULY AND I TRY ALL DRIVER AFTER THE 179.00 SERIRES NVIDIA DRIVERS NONE OF THE DRIVERS WORK AND I CAN NOT FIND AND REVIEWS ON THIS PLEASE IF SOMEONE FIX THIS PROBLEM LET ME KNOW

 

[Kari]

which gigabyte x58 mobo? the cheap ones dont support sli

 

[theprofessional85]

it the gigabyte x58 EA exterme it was the highist price one

 

[utley]

I have the same issue myself. Its an EX58 Extreme rev 1.

I just tried to put in a second GTX260 core 216. I had it enabled for a short time, but after trying to test it in 3dMark Vantage, they kinda puttered on me.

Heres a link to my thread at sli forums:
http://forums.slizone.com/index.php?showtopic=33791

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[theprofessional85]

what operating system you have the problem with i fix my problem i found it was a windows vista problem becouse i try it on xp and no problems at all with vista it will not sli

i have the some problem with 3dmark vantage but only on vista

try xp it will work fine i had no problem in xp since the last 2 day