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    Long Boot-Up with SLI

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by patonb, Jul 23, 2015.

  1. patonb

    patonb Notebook Enthusiast

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    Due to SLI not being supported properly I had been running only 1 770m. I re-enabled SLI last week and now my boot up times have doubled.
    My screen shows the BIOS part, then goes black and stays there for 20secs, then continues as it would normal.

    Any ideas if there's something wrong?

    Thanks
     
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    Scanner Notebook Deity

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    What do you mean not supported exactly?

    Couple of things to check

    -can your power brick handle both cards?
    -check SLI cable for damage.
    -try different Nvidia driver
    -check GPUs for defect/damage
     
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    patonb Notebook Enthusiast

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    The game screws up textures and what not when it runs SLI/XFire.

    Seeing as my 3D scores all still are the same, it's not any of the above.
    As I said, only the transition from BIOS to Windows screen is affected. Nothing else.
     
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