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    M1730 - No SLI Option after Rebuild

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by mhbr12742, Nov 22, 2008.

  1. mhbr12742

    mhbr12742 Newbie

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    Hi all

    i hope you can help, as i am pulling my hair out here....

    Yesterday i received my M1730 with dual 8700m SLI 256mb cards. it was preconfigured with Vista Home Premium. when i looked in device manager i had two entries for display adaptors which was great.

    however i wanted to put vista ultimate on it as i had a licence for it and thought it would be ok to use. I reformated and repartitioned the RAID 0 2 x 160GB hds. i installed ultimate fine, i then downloaded the stock 8700m drivers from the dell website. however after installing these driver Vista now only sees the one graphics card, it can't see the second one.

    i have looked in the Nvidia control panel to see if i have to turn SLI on before vista sees the second card, but i can't see anything, i can't even see a SLI option. i also looked in the bios and can't see anything in there also.

    Am i missing something, an option maybe, or could this be a hardware fault?

    Anyhelp would be great, i am going crazy here worrying what i did to break it... :(
     
    mhbr12742, Nov 22, 2008
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    72hundred Revolutions-Per-Millennia

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  3. eleron911

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    Must be the driver.
    Get a better one from laptopvideo2go.com
     
    eleron911, Nov 22, 2008
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  4. mhbr12742

    mhbr12742 Newbie

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    hi

    got it working. i had to install mediadirect before the card drivers. did it be accident really.
    Does anyone know why this might be, sounds weird
     
    mhbr12742, Nov 23, 2008
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