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kayris   09-12-2009 at 03:23:08 AM

I just finised installing my second 8800GT nivida card onto a Asus crossfire mobo,why the heck did i have to reinstall windows vista???? make no sence at all, could it be i move SATA ports ( original port was in the way of the second card)

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   09-12-2009 at 04:04:17 AM

You do know that you will not be able to run SLi?

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kayris   09-12-2009 at 04:07:59 AM

mousemonkey wrote :

You do know that you will not be able to run SLi?


No I had no idea, my I.T buddy told me that I should have no issue, as long as I had enough watts in my power supply ( there is just more that what i had mentioned inmy rig) I do have the SLI brige cable. why cant I run SLi?

Plus that isn't my main concern at the moment, I'm still trying to figure out why did it prompt me to insert the boot disk?


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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   09-12-2009 at 04:18:18 AM

Your I.T buddy is a c**k. SLi for an Intel socket 775 or any AMD CPU requires an Nvidia chipset, you have a Crossfire board so only ATi cards can be run in a dual GPU config.

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kayris   09-12-2009 at 04:19:59 AM

mousemonkey wrote :

Your I.T buddy is a ****. SLi for an Intel socket 775 or any AMD CPU requires an Nvidia chipset, you have a Crossfire board so only ATi cards can be run in a dual GPU config.




My 1st 8800 workjed just fine in the rig (which is still in there), till now. The boot issue

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   09-12-2009 at 04:25:22 AM

Yes a single card will run in any board but to run a pair in SLi requires an Nvidia or X58/P55 chipset and what is yours? X48? P45?

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kayris   09-12-2009 at 04:32:13 AM

it shows in the manual
Chipset: NVIDIA nFORCE 590 SLi MCP
NVIDIA linkboost technology

Scalable Link interface (SLi)
Supports two "identical" NVIDIA SLi-Ready graphics cards
(BOTH AT X16 MODE)
Asus two-slot thermal design
Asus PEG link

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   09-12-2009 at 04:45:24 AM

kayris wrote :

I just finised installing my second 8800GT nivida card onto a Asus crossfire mobo,


That was why I asked, as for boot issue did you have to move the SATA HDD connector to another port because the back of the card covers the port? if so then you need to reassign the 'boot from HDD' option in BIOS and tell it which port the OS's HDD is on.

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kayris   09-12-2009 at 05:00:21 AM

it reconized the HDD in SATA 2, where its plugged in.

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kayris   09-12-2009 at 05:07:49 AM

it boots fine now.. now my issue is getting rid of the second write of the o/s on my hdd. most of the memory is gone on the HDD .

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   09-12-2009 at 05:09:14 AM

You may have to set BIOS to boot from port 2 as it's default will be port 0, and if it is a crosshair board it will not have an Nvidia 590 chipset, crosshair is an ATi crossfire or Xfire board,

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   09-12-2009 at 05:10:47 AM

Copy all the important stuff over and delete the old install.

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1HAPLO   09-12-2009 at 05:17:18 AM

You must have a nForce Chipset to run SLI on a Socket 775 Intel MB or AMD MB. The only Intel MB that will do both ATI Crossfire and nVidia SLI are the X58 Chipset used on the Socket 1366 or the Skulltrail socket 771.

Just because you have 2 PCIe x16 slots does not make the board support SLI or Crossfire.

ATI Crossfire chipsets:
Intel P965 (x16/x4)
Intel P975 (x8/x8)
Intel X38/X48 (x16/x16)
Intel P35/P45 (x16/x4 or x8/x8)
AMD 790FX(x16/x16)
AMD 790GX (x8/x8)
AMD 790X(x8/x8)
AMD 690G(x16/x4)
AMD 580X(x16/x16)
AMD 480X(x8/x8)

nVidia SLI Chipsets:
nForce 4 SLI
nforce 500 SLI series
nforce 600 SLI series
nforce 700 series
nForce xx0a for AMD CPUs
nForce xx0i for Intel CPUs

Both SLI and Crossfire:
Intel X58(X16/X16)

Hope that this list helps

1Haplo

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   09-12-2009 at 05:24:39 AM

1HAPLO wrote :

You must have a nForce Chipset to run SLI on a Socket 775 Intel MB or AMD MB. The only Intel MB that will do both ATI Crossfire and nVidia SLI are the X58 Chipset used on the Socket 1366/1156 or the Skulltrail socket 771.

Just because you have 2 PCIe x16 slots does not make the board support SLI or Crossfire.

ATI Crossfire chipsets:
Intel P965 (x16/x4)
Intel P975 (x8/x8)
Intel X38/X48 (x16/x16)
Intel P35/P45 (x16/x4 or x8/x8)
AMD 790FX(x16/x16)
AMD 790GX (x8/x8)
AMD 790X(x8/x8)
AMD 690G(x16/x4)
AMD 580X(x16/x16)
AMD 480X(x8/x8)

nVidia SLI Chipsets:
nForce 4 SLI
nforce 500 SLI series
nforce 600 SLI series
nforce 700 series
nForce xx0a for AMD CPUs
nForce xx0i for Intel CPUs

Both SLI and Crossfire:
Intel X58(X16/X16)P55(x8+x8)

Hope that this list helps

1Haplo


You missed one. :D

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kayris   09-12-2009 at 05:37:43 AM

mousemonkey wrote :

Copy all the important stuff over and delete the old install.


How do u delete the old?

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   09-12-2009 at 06:10:40 AM

the 'delete' key? ;), or have you got another partition? if so then either run computer management via run > compmgmt.msc > storage > disk management and reformat the unwanted partition or reinstall windows and delete the partition during setup.

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kayris   09-13-2009 at 10:44:16 PM

mousemonkey wrote :

the 'delete' key? ;), or have you got another partition? if so then either run computer management via run > compmgmt.msc > storage > disk management and reformat the unwanted partition or reinstall windows and delete the partition during setup.



msg error comes and says i don't have premissions, and if i go into storage management right click format, its not highlighted its in a grey state.

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   09-13-2009 at 10:57:29 PM

Save all your important stuff to a flash drive or DVD and start again deleting the other partition during the install process.

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