Disable SLI?

[Nutcase]

Both my comps have the same problem and it's doing my head in. When they're switched on and boot into windows (XP and XP MCE), a little speech bubble pops up at the bottom of the screen saying "SLI multi gpu rendering has been disabled..... because one of your SLI cards has been removed... to learn more click this message".

When you click the message it just takes you to a site that spiels about how wondeful sli is. Not how to get rid of the stupid message - stupid in that I've never had more than one card in there.

Anyone know how I can stop it coming up as it doesn't go away by itself.

Cheerrs :)

[Mark]

Any setting in advanced display properties to permanently disable SLI?

[Stan_Lite]

Install tweakui and disable all bubbles - that's what I do :D

[Nutcase]

Any setting in advanced display properties to permanently disable SLI?

Nope, go to sli config, and it gives a link. To:

a site that spiels about how wondeful sli is :angry:

Not quite what I had in mind, Stan ;)

[Nutcase]

Hmm, seems my fdrivers are ancient - the bug was apparently fixed mid last year!

Wonder why the windows update site says the driver is up to date?

Oh well, do wnloading a 64mb bloat of the latest drivers.

[Mark]

You trust Windows update to have up-to-date drivers, or even drivers that work? :huh: :)

Last time I installed a VGA driver from Windows update it took about three attempts to get it to work. :)

[Nutcase]

Well I have very limited computer knowledge :o

Which I suppose means I should know not to trust it as I actually have *some* knowledge ;D

Just beetrooted and no pop up thingy :)

Wonder what's broken instead :evil:

[Will]

Have you checked on your motherboard to make sure the SLi card is oriented the correct way round?

[Nutcase]

Have you checked on your motherboard to make sure the SLi card is oriented the correct way round?

pretty sure graphics cards can only go in one way (and actually do anything :)),

these bloaty drivers seem to have done it :) Although when I put them on the hcpc it buggered up the resoloutions :angry:

[Will]

What I meant, is that there's a circuit board (there is on my mobo) that sits between both PCIE slots - on mine I have to flip it one way or the other to put it into single or dual mode :) But it may well be different on modern motherboards. :)

[Feek]

My old machine did exactly the same and I never found a fix for it, even with the latest drivers. It was quite frustrating.

[Nutcase]

Wonder what's broken instead :evil:

Fantastic, it causes a stop error on my HCPC :angry: I guess I'll be rolling that driver back then, if it'll let me!

[Nutcase]

Well the bubble is back, but at least it doesn't reset the whole system 10 mins into a film :confused:

My main pc seems ok with the new drivers though.