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    SLI Settings for 8800m GTX in m1730 HELP!!!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by ragils5, Apr 23, 2008.

  1. ragils5

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    Hi there,

    I received my XPS m1730 on the 22/04/2008 and I am trying to configure the SLI settings (enable it) for the 8800m graphics cards.

    I opened the nVidia control panel and enabled SLI in there, but there is no SLI option available in the BIOS settings. I was led to believe the SLI settings could be changed in the BIOS or was I fed misleading information?

    I'm only asking because I want to be sure my system has SLI enabled. I went to www.slizone.com and ran the program they have that detects to see if the system has SLI enabled and it returned "could not find any video cards running SLI". Even when I do a systems check in the Steam client (Valve) it says SLI has not been detected.

    Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks

    Ben

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    Dell XPS m1730
    Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 2.8GHz
    4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
    2x200GB Performance HDD
    Dual 512MB nVidia 8800m GTX SLI
    Ageia PhysX Card
    17" WUXGA 1080p TrueLife Monitor (1920x1200)
     
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    Magnus72 Notebook Virtuoso

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    You set the SLI setting through Nvidia Control Panel not bios.
     
    Magnus72, Apr 23, 2008
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    ragils5 Newbie

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    Magnus,

    I have set the SLI through nVidia control panel, but some programs still don't recognise SLI has been enabled.

    Does this have to do with the actual SLI mode setting (i.e. Single-GPU, Force rendering 1, Force rendering 2, etc)??
     
    ragils5, Apr 24, 2008
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    Nope, the SLI mode settings just tells the GPU`s how they should draw each frame between each GPU. To me it sounds like you have SLI disabled. Maybe Dell forgot to enable it. Though sounds strange if they did such a huge mistake in their testing of the unit. Or your other GPU doesn´t work at all.
     
    Magnus72, Apr 24, 2008
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