Hi gurus! I thought I would humbly ask for some advice from the experts since I am having a bit of a time trying to get my mobo/card combo to work correctly. The system is a bit dated, I built it back in '05 and it has run pretty well since then. When I first got it up and running, everything, including the SLI, was working just fine.
Fast forward to a week ago when I get a wild hair up my *** and decide that the computer feels slow and it needs an OS reload anyway. I stick all my junk on my 500gb slave sata drive, disconnect it for safety's sake, and commence deleting partitions and formatting my primary drive. I reload windows, and everything is going smoothly until I realize that in order to get SLI working I need to flash the bios. Okay, no biggie. I go to MSI's website and they're flaunting the new 'live update' function as the most awesome thing since sliced bread. I notice it doesn't need a floppy disk in order to do its thing, and I don't have any lying around since I moved, so I'm like HELL YEAH. And I try to run it. BAD IDEA! My computer promptly takes a huge dump and bluescreens, then tells me 'keyboard error or no KB present'. Having run into this problem before, I reset the CMOS (and test all my connections on the mobo just in case) and restart.
I had to manually remove all the components of the MSI live update service in safe mode, as the uninstallation tool was corrupted and because everytime it tried to load it would bluescreen again and die in a fire.
So, as it is now, my computer boots fine and gets to windows, albeit with a weird bios that I assume is factory set. (it's the K8N diamond bios, which may not enable SLI, but I can't find a reputable download for the K8n Neo4 SLI bios - MSI's website just does not have one, or they hid it really well.) There is no option to enable SLI in any of the Nvidia menus I have, even though i just downloaded the latest drivers for my cards.
I'm about to throw the thing out the bloody window! Please spare it this fate. Any help would be appreciated. I'll be hanging around the computer and refreshing this topic every few minutes, so ask questions all you like - I realize you might not have all the info you need from my ramblings. Thanks in advance!
Specs:
Windows XP SP3
MSI K8N Neo4/SLI mobo (MS-7100)
2 gb ddr400 ram (2x1gb sticks)
2 MSI Nvidia geforce 6600gt TD-128E vidcards (before you ask, yes I am sure they are the same exact cards, and yes they are installed correctly; bridge and switch card and all. they DID work fine before the Great Disaster of Last Week)
Fast forward to a week ago when I get a wild hair up my *** and decide that the computer feels slow and it needs an OS reload anyway. I stick all my junk on my 500gb slave sata drive, disconnect it for safety's sake, and commence deleting partitions and formatting my primary drive. I reload windows, and everything is going smoothly until I realize that in order to get SLI working I need to flash the bios. Okay, no biggie. I go to MSI's website and they're flaunting the new 'live update' function as the most awesome thing since sliced bread. I notice it doesn't need a floppy disk in order to do its thing, and I don't have any lying around since I moved, so I'm like HELL YEAH. And I try to run it. BAD IDEA! My computer promptly takes a huge dump and bluescreens, then tells me 'keyboard error or no KB present'. Having run into this problem before, I reset the CMOS (and test all my connections on the mobo just in case) and restart.
I had to manually remove all the components of the MSI live update service in safe mode, as the uninstallation tool was corrupted and because everytime it tried to load it would bluescreen again and die in a fire.
So, as it is now, my computer boots fine and gets to windows, albeit with a weird bios that I assume is factory set. (it's the K8N diamond bios, which may not enable SLI, but I can't find a reputable download for the K8n Neo4 SLI bios - MSI's website just does not have one, or they hid it really well.) There is no option to enable SLI in any of the Nvidia menus I have, even though i just downloaded the latest drivers for my cards.
I'm about to throw the thing out the bloody window! Please spare it this fate. Any help would be appreciated. I'll be hanging around the computer and refreshing this topic every few minutes, so ask questions all you like - I realize you might not have all the info you need from my ramblings. Thanks in advance!
Specs:
Windows XP SP3
MSI K8N Neo4/SLI mobo (MS-7100)
2 gb ddr400 ram (2x1gb sticks)
2 MSI Nvidia geforce 6600gt TD-128E vidcards (before you ask, yes I am sure they are the same exact cards, and yes they are installed correctly; bridge and switch card and all. they DID work fine before the Great Disaster of Last Week)