Having worst time ever with this board :(

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I'm trying to use 2 GTX 580 video cards in SLI and every time I go to enable the SLI in the nvidia control panel, the monitors blink, come back with only one out of two monitors on, and the nvidia control panel is non-responsive. I close out, restart, whatever, and the driver is corrupted and can no longer start. Only way to fix this is performing a clean re-install of the driver. I've tried the beta version and the version before that with no luck. The beta version will randomly lock up my pc btw causing me to have to power off the pc and reboot it.


Also whenever I restart my pc, the USB mouse will randomly all of a sudden be an "unknown" device and I have to unplug and replug it back in several times before getting it to work, yet my microsoft bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo works perfectly fine no matter what. Same results on both usb 3.0 and usb 2.0 front panel and rear ports. 😞


Anybody have any idea how to fix these issues? Thanks!


Also can someone point me to the file I need to install to fix this raid controller issue. Drivers for this device are not installed (Code 28). I'm guessing they are the marvell drivers, but the ones I used dont solve the problem 😕

System:
Asus maximus IV extreme v3
intel 2600k
gtx580 (2)
ocz maxiops 120GB (2)
wd hard drive 1TB (2)
1000watt psu gold rated
16GB 2000 DDR3 memory

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MarkedOne wrote:
I notice than I have far less trouble with SLI, when I install Windows with only 1 GPU, install the drivers, reboot, shutdown and then install the secod GPU. But to do so it's means re install Windows, yes re install.

What? Are you saying that for everyone who does sli, if they install only one video card when they install the OS that they have to reinstall the OS with both video cards to make it work? O_o

[Kipper]

Check the BIOS on each individual GPU, if the BIOS is different this can sometimes cause the problem you are having. Just a thought

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Kipper wrote:
Check the BIOS on each individual GPU, if the BIOS is different this can sometimes cause the problem you are having. Just a thought

Where is this at specifically? The guy at EVGA had me run a bios update on both cards.. Also when I run oc scanner and run a stress test on either card installed alone or together something in my PC makes this high pitched skreetching noise. I can't tell if its my power supply or the video card. If I highlight the OC window instead of the animation stress window it stops skreetching.

This is so weird.

The guy at EVGA tried to tell me my brand new ocz 1000watt psu wasn't giving the right amount of power to the cards and that I needed to replace the psu. wtf? At that point he was grasping for straws and pretty much told me to call asus too.

I've done 10min stress tests on both cards with 0 artifact errors. 😞 These are at stock settings too.

[Area_66]

The oposite, I said to install Windows with only 1 GPU and install the second GPU ( video card0 only after the GPU drivers of the first one is install.

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Well I ended up reinstalling windows with both GPU's installed in SLI mode, and the first thing I installed after the OS was the nvidia drivers and I enabled SLI and it worked flawlessly.

All I can say is W-T-F. I wish nvidia would have a solution for this other than reinstalling the OS. *LAME!*

Even sadder that the EVGA support claims my 1000w power supply wasnt able to handle the cards.... now if only I could solve the annoying "undetectable mouse" issue...

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Well I ended up reinstalling windows with both GPU's installed in SLI mode, and the first thing I installed after the OS was the nvidia drivers and I enabled SLI and it worked flawlessly.

All I can say is W-T-F. I wish nvidia would have a solution for this other than reinstalling the OS. *LAME!*

Even sadder that the EVGA support claims my 1000w power supply wasnt able to handle the cards.... now if only I could solve the annoying "undetectable mouse" issue...

[chrsplmr]

Well played all.

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One thing I've noticed with this OS install is that I'm installing purely only the drivers that came with the motherboard and everything seems to be working better than downloading all the newest drives from ASUS and installing them first.

Still having issues with having to re-plug in the USB mouse on some restarts 😞