Video issues while using SLI

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Smitty_smit

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I recently built a new computer and have been having issues while playing games. I have been getting the occasional error after my game crashes saying that my video card drivers have stopped responding but have recovered. I have the latest drivers installed for my video card and my MOBO. I have checked the videocards and they both operate fine when not using sli but once i configure it my framerate drops below what it is when i use one video card. After playing in SLI for a bit the screen will start going haywire and then the game will freeze shortly after. Video card temps normally read around 55 to 60 while playing games with everything maxed out. If anyone has any advice or has seen this issue and can offer advice it would be greatly appreciated.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Gh
    Motherboard
    EVGA nforce 780i SLI
    Memory
    OCZ SLI 8GB PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 9600 GT SSC SLI
    Hard Drives
    WD 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
Hi Smitty,

Can you show me a screenshot of GPUZ?

Steven

Smitty_smit said:
I recently built a new computer and have been having issues while playing games. I have been getting the occasional error after my game crashes saying that my video card drivers have stopped responding but have recovered. I have the latest drivers installed for my video card and my MOBO. I have checked the videocards and they both operate fine when not using sli but once i configure it my framerate drops below what it is when i use one video card. After playing in SLI for a bit the screen will start going haywire and then the game will freeze shortly after. Video card temps normally read around 55 to 60 while playing games with everything maxed out. If anyone has any advice or has seen this issue and can offer advice it would be greatly appreciated.
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you want a screenshot of the NVIDIA control panel?
 

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  • CPU
    Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Gh
    Motherboard
    EVGA nforce 780i SLI
    Memory
    OCZ SLI 8GB PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 9600 GT SSC SLI
    Hard Drives
    WD 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
Ok here is the screen shot you asked for
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System One

  • CPU
    Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Gh
    Motherboard
    EVGA nforce 780i SLI
    Memory
    OCZ SLI 8GB PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 9600 GT SSC SLI
    Hard Drives
    WD 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
Here is also a screen shot with SLI enabled.
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My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Gh
    Motherboard
    EVGA nforce 780i SLI
    Memory
    OCZ SLI 8GB PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 9600 GT SSC SLI
    Hard Drives
    WD 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
anyone out there had this issue know about or able to help me? Getting tired of my video cards acting up when i try to play games. Please any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Gh
    Motherboard
    EVGA nforce 780i SLI
    Memory
    OCZ SLI 8GB PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 9600 GT SSC SLI
    Hard Drives
    WD 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
Smitty_smit said:
anyone out there had this issue know about or able to help me? Getting tired of my video cards acting up when i try to play games. Please any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Overheating, overclocking , underclocking and incorrect BIOS settings are the only things I can see causing a problem for you because your hardware is definatly good enough for games...

Do you have any BIOS setting called HPET or High precision timer? It looks very similar to a HyperThreading setting but affects the performance of Vista badly so if you have something that looks like HT ot HPET try disabling it.

Steven
 

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dmex said:
Overheating, overclocking , underclocking and incorrect BIOS settings are the only things I can see causing a problem for you because your hardware is definatly good enough for games...

Do you have any BIOS setting called HPET or High precision timer? It looks very similar to a HyperThreading setting but affects the performance of Vista badly so if you have something that looks like HT ot HPET try disabling it.

Steven
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Ok i disabled the HPET in the bios and will give it a try there was also another one HT spread spectrum. Not sure if that is the hyper thread you talked about. It is set to auto as of now. Should i disable that one as well?
 

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  • CPU
    Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Gh
    Motherboard
    EVGA nforce 780i SLI
    Memory
    OCZ SLI 8GB PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 9600 GT SSC SLI
    Hard Drives
    WD 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
No need - since your CPU doesn't support hyperthreading (as it has *true* multiple cores as opposed to Virtual multiple core support) the BIOS cannot use it.

You *can* set it to disabled if you want to, bu there will be no gain from it as the BIOS cannot enable something the CPU does not support.
 

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johngalt said:
No need - since your CPU doesn't support hyperthreading (as it has *true* multiple cores as opposed to Virtual multiple core support) the BIOS cannot use it.

You *can* set it to disabled if you want to, bu there will be no gain from it as the BIOS cannot enable something the CPU does not support.
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John, This setting is different to the one your thinking about...


Smitty, Has disabling HPET made any improvement?
(the HT spread spectrum just lets the BIOS adjust the voltage and timing a little, it doesnt make a big difference having it enabled or disabled)

Steven
 

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I didn't have much time to test it out last night but while i was playing one of my games after about an hour nothing bad happened. I would usually start to see signs by then so i think that might have been the issue. If I notice anything further i will let you know. Thanks for your help
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Gh
    Motherboard
    EVGA nforce 780i SLI
    Memory
    OCZ SLI 8GB PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 9600 GT SSC SLI
    Hard Drives
    WD 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
Smitty_smit said:
I didn't have much time to test it out last night but while i was playing one of my games after about an hour nothing bad happened. I would usually start to see signs by then so i think that might have been the issue. If I notice anything further i will let you know. Thanks for your help
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:cool: Let me know if it does stop the errors, encase someone else has the same issue they can try it out.

Steven
 

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Hey dmxe so far i have not had any issues with my video cards taking a dump during game play looks like that was the cause of my issues. everything has been running smooth since. thanks for your help and advice. It also helped a co-worker with the same issue.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66Gh
    Motherboard
    EVGA nforce 780i SLI
    Memory
    OCZ SLI 8GB PC6400
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA GeForce 9600 GT SSC SLI
    Hard Drives
    WD 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
Smitty_smit said:
Hey dmex so far I have not had any issues with my video cards taking a dump during game play looks like that was the cause of my issues. everything has been running smooth since. thanks for your help and advice. It also helped a co-worker with the same issue.
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Your Welcome Smitty, Glad to help anytime :cool:

Steven
 

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I've got similar problems with SLI. Sometimes Vista will recognize both video cards and run SLI. Most of the time it will not recognize that I have 2 video cards installed. I have tested each card seperately and each seem to work fine. At times Vista will not load my NVidia 175.19 drivers and will resort back to default drivers and change my screen resolution to 600x800. I have turned HPET off in the bios and no change. I have obtained the latest bios from MSI tech support. Here is my info...

MSI K9N Diamond mb
AMD 9600 Black Edition
2 x GeForce 7900 GTX set up in SLI
2 gig Corsair Dominator DDR2 800 Dual Channel ram
2 x 36 gig WD Raptor HDD in Raid 0
850 watt Power supply
ThermalTake ArmorLcs case with water cooling running to both video cards and CPU

Here are links to pics of CPU-Z and GPU-Z

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/310thDiablo/mainboard.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/310thDiablo/cpu-2300.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/310thDiablo/memory-2299.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/310thDiablo/GPU.gif

Any help would be appreciated in this. I'm getting nowhere in everything I try to do.
 

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