I'd rather not, as it involves postage back to another country, not to mention the delay - all for turning around what could well be two perfectly good and compatible cards. I'm assuming these boards were just assembled at two different plants and wont give me any issues, but I do have a limited time of opportunity to RMA these as well. I enjoyed my system for 4 days, before it suffered the 'No video, no POST, no beep' fate and has driven me nuts for a week, and I'm now RMA'ing it for a DFI alternative.Īnyway, my question is, are these cards really capable of SLI - or is that the reason I was having issues with v71.25 drivers? Should I be worried about the differing PCB colours? The revisions are the same, as are the part numbers, but there are also a couple of different shape electrical components on the board (minor). However I then tried the 71.25 drivers, and although the tick box for SLI was checked, benchmark scores indicated that only one GFX card was being utilised.
Both turned out to be rev2, but one had a BLUE PCB and the other a GREEN PCB, plus they both had the metal bar screwed along the top, covering the 'goldfingers'.įor the short period of time that my A8N-SLI-Deluxe was running, with the 66.93 drivers, I was able to get scores in 3Dmark05 indicative of a properly functioning SLI setup. I recently purchased two XFX PCIe 6800GT's. if it gets too much of a headache, i might just get them to swap it with a gigabyte SLI board even though its $50 more. Im going to take it all back to the shop i got it from tomorrow, so ill report back if i nailed the problem. But i would have thought the PSU would cope with only one vid card. i was told it was true 500watt and it could be the problem i dont know. and then saw it was only running at 1x.ĥ00Watt PSU - no idea of brand. At the start i thought perhaps it was ment to be in the second slot and that i had solved the problem, but when i ran a benchmark, it was performing really bad.
but i read this, and i get the same problem. Sorry that i havnt read the entire thread, its kinda lengthy. > The odd thing is the system will boot if I take the card out of the PCIEX16_1 and put it into the PCIEX16_2.