This is going to be a guide on how to make SLI work on ANY non Nforce chipset board. Brought to you by Tristanguy1224 and Eclipseaudio4
First and foremost I take no responsibility nor does XtremeSystem.org if something goes wrong and damage is done.
Here is a link to almost everything you need. forcedSLI.rar The other things you will need are, The latest driver cleaner or driver sweeper, and the latest Nvidia drivers, and a little dos knowledge.
This will be for Windows 7 64bit but should work for the other OS's as well.
The first thing you need to do is download everything I have listed.(bookmarking this page would be a good idea as well) Now reboot into safe mode with networking. (F8 when bios hands over to OS) Now run driver cleaner for all things Nvidia.
It will reset and when it does make sure you do not go back into safe mode.
Now install the latest Nvidia Drivers(actually will work for all drivers)
After that resets check to make sure you have Nvidia control panel. If not you have done something wrong.
Next you are going to take the folder SLIStringInstaller v1.81 and open that up there will be three exe's open "slistringinstall.exe" You now want to click ASUS. It does not matter what MB you have use the ASUS button if you do not it will not work. it will then tell you that it installed the string or something to that effect. You can now close it.
Next you are going to open cmd but you have to open it from the windows directory and run with administrator rights. should be something like this c:\windows\system32 it should be in this folder.
Now that you have cmd open it gets a little tricky the easiest way to do this for me was to have those three folders you expanded from the forcedsli rar on the desktop.
Now type "cd.." then enter until you get to C:\> . Next (as long as you have those folders on the desktop) type "cd users" you should now have C:\Users> now type "cd (your sign in name)" for me it was "cd home" now it will look like C:\users\HOME> (with your sign in name where HOME is). Next you will type "cd desktop" and you get C:\users\HOME\desktop> . Next you wan to type "cd hal" for C:\users\HOME\desktop\HAL> and finally you will type "install" this will get the command going. now your prompt should look like C:\users\home\desktop\hal> type "cd.." to go back to C:\users\home\desktop> and then type "cd Patch" this will bring you to C:\users\home\desktop\patch> now type "prepare" after this is done shutdown and set yourself up to run SLI. (put the bridge on and so forth) Power up and check Nvidia control panel it should look like this.
I am sorry if this guide got long winded and kinda hard to read but... It works.
No SLI
SLI
If you have any issues we will try to help you out but this should be considered beta for now and we would appreciate it if some one would confirm this does work as I have posted it.
Thanks!
Last edited by eclipseaudio4; 11-09-2009 at 04:43 PM.
Sorry guys I have been hella busy.
Biker: LOL I wish altho I was a little.
TheKarmakazi I will PM you for e-mail and send them to you.
stummerwinter: I had it running 185.85's just fine
Ok guys I have reuploaded to a new file sharing site. Hopefully It will be unlimited as they said. I have also sent the files to TheKarmakazi as he said he will host them as well.
a few weeks ago,however there were some limitations -
only worked with 1 force ware driver and adding
ram/ another gpu would BSD on boot up.
Only worked in "test mode" (driver checking off) in win7.
a few weeks ago,however there were some limitations -
only worked with 1 force ware driver and adding
ram/ another gpu would BSD on boot up.
Only worked in "test mode" (driver checking off) in win7.
This is kinda like that in that it only works in test mode(I belive, have not tried in reg) But that is a small price to pay for SLI. From the testing I did I can tell you If done correctly it will work with all drivers, and should not have any issues If you add anything. Sometime in Jan I will have 2 260's that I will be able to test this on as well, but until then I can not say with 100% certainty that you will be able to change the cards out(altho there is no reason it should not work.)
The link you posted is the other way that you supposedly can do this. We had no luck what so ever with that method. All in all we spent over 10Hrs trying to get that method to work when we gave up on it. The method described in the OP took all of 30Min to get working properly and about 4 days of testing.
Last edited by eclipseaudio4; 11-09-2009 at 08:43 PM.
Since you have winrar you can make a self extracting executable that runs a BAT file to eliminate all that typing
Just use one of the standard windows variables instead of extracting to C: or a specific drive letter so it runs on anyones PCs no matter there OS drive letter
%HOMEPATH% will send it the default user directory (or guest folder in XP) or for more options check these environment variables out
(Not trying to sound ungrateful just trying to help out )
So please, add anatolymik and sveensnelda to credits. And these guys are still working on newer mods, because with 195.xx drivers NVIDIA added extra check, to prevent SLI.
Also, as was stated here earlier: there is full guide,without any ads or download limits for everybody. I've tested more that 10 configs, also other people forums tested much more, so it's little reward for all developers time elapsed for mods.
BTW, if anybody will try files described here for non-Win7 64bit they will 100% crush OS. HAL mod is _special_ for every OS type. anatolymik developed only XP32 (non ASUS certificate version) mod and Windows7 64bit so far.
Thanks.
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So please, add anatolymik and sveensnelda to credits. And these guys are still working on newer mods, because with 195.xx drivers NVIDIA added extra check, to prevent SLI.
Also, as was stated here earlier: there is full guide,without any ads or download limits for everybody. I've tested more that 10 configs, also other people forums tested much more, so it's little reward for all developers time elapsed for mods.
BTW, if anybody will try files described here for non-Win7 64bit they will 100% crush OS. HAL mod is _special_ for every OS type. anatolymik developed only XP32 (non ASUS certificate version) mod and Windows7 64bit so far.
Thanks.
Well first off thanks for craping in this thread. A PM would have been much more appropriate.
Second I never said that I made this. I did not know who did but never claimed it was my own. That being said now that I look back at his site http://xdevs.com/e107_plugins/conten...php?content.30 I do see that that is the name that should have been credited.
I must say however tho that the way it is explained was very hard to follow and at times just unexplained. We spent hours trying to get this to work as a result of this.
If people were really interested to know who made It I am sure he signed it in the code somewhere. Also you are correct it will only work in 7.
What it really comes down to tho is awareness! The more people know about this the better as we will no longer be stuck with an inferior chipset.
Extremely interested in trying this out, but I want to make SURE this works. Is there anyway to see if my system is ready for SLi before I blow 200 dollars on this.
A lot of people tried already, and everything works. It's not "alternative" or "another" SLI here, it's the same SLI made by NVIDIA. It's just without checks of platform.
Download latest Everest and look at ACPI/DSDT Table section. If you see there SLI Certificate: YES, cert data and HAL report of chipset hardware : Intel X58 on your mobo - then 99.9% that it will work properly. If you don't see both these things - your modification go wrong way, recheck and redo everything again.
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A lot of people tried already, and everything works. It's not "alternative" or "another" SLI here, it's the same SLI made by NVIDIA. It's just without checks of platform.
Download latest Everest and look at ACPI/DSDT Table section. If you see there SLI Certificate: YES, cert data and HAL report of chipset hardware : Intel X58 on your mobo - then 99.9% that it will work properly. If you don't see both these things - your modification go wrong way, recheck and redo everything again.
Under the ACPI DSDT it says this
ACPI Signature DSDT
Table Description Differentiated System Description Table
Memory Address CFEA0450h
Table Length 41793 bytes
OEM ID A7577
OEM Table ID A7577100
OEM Revision 00000100h
Creator ID INTL
Creator Revision 20051117h
Does the Creator ID mean it worked?
I havn't restarted yet, so that my be it.
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