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    When turning on SLi, I can't run two screens at the same time! :(

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by sva988, Nov 23, 2007.

  1. sva988

    sva988 Notebook Consultant

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    I'm running 169.09 drivers from laptopvideo2go.com, and after installing them I could run two screens from nVidia control panel (DuelView). But when turning SLi on, I couldn't. Only 1 screen showed. So I turned SLi off again, and the second screen was back. How can I have SLi turned on and have two screens running at the same time?

    THanks for any help
     
    sva988, Nov 23, 2007
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  2. moon angel

    moon angel Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    I believe the point of SLI is to have two graphics cards for one screen, each card looks after half the screen. The point of SLI would be nullified with two screens.
     
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  3. sva988

    sva988 Notebook Consultant

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    So it's normal that I can't get it to work? I mean I would think people would protest a bit if their systems suddenly couldn't handle two or more screens just because they got SLi???
     
    sva988, Nov 23, 2007
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    its normal.
     
    FriscoPowers, Nov 23, 2007
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    Yeah, googl'ed around a bit, and apparently nVidia has no support for SLI and multimonitor setups... Too bad...
     
    sva988, Nov 23, 2007
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