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    M98NU/NP9850 SLI flickering, artifakts HELP

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by AndrewKW, Nov 26, 2009.

  1. AndrewKW

    AndrewKW Notebook Consultant

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    Hello folks,

    It seems my M98NU is cursed. I fixed all SW bugs including touch sensitive buttons under W7. Now I have big troubles with GTX 280M SLI with Q9000 and T9900.

    3DMArk 2006 first soldier scean and getting only about 60FPS in NON SLI mode. With SLI ENABLED I am getting same ~60FPS but there are artifacts in the display, colouring and screen flickering. It just look bad. Is the second card dead? I reinstalled W7 and DX9 pack, also tried two different version of drivers but nothing has helped. I remember reading about flickering coulouring and artifacts from any other user but cant find it at all!

    Thank you a LOT for your help :-(
     
    AndrewKW, Nov 26, 2009
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    hyperbolic Notebook Consultant

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    I don't know much about SLI but maybe you can do more troubleshooting like opening your rig and checking the SLI bridge connection. Also, check and see if you have the latest BIOS. RivaTuner will show you what BIOS version you have (I sure hope both cards have the same BIOS version). If you haven't tried driver 186.81, it seems to be very reliable. Here is the link for the 64bit version, I figure your running Win7 64. Make sure you do a clean driver install. Uninstall driver, restart in safemode, run Driver Sweeper and clear nVidia Display. Restart, install driver, then restart one more time and run your tests.
     
    hyperbolic, Nov 27, 2009
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