MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Motherboard

[Ya Mother]

got my other 770 today....will fit it tomorrow and bench the 2 of them.

[Lloyd_mcse]

got my other 770 today....will fit it tomorrow and bench the 2 of them.

Nice!!!! it'll be good to see what they get

[Ya Mother]

Just installed the other one.....please forgive the pcie cables lol.





Never SLI before so Do you have to enable anything?

[Lloyd_mcse]

Cool, no I haven't ran SLI since the 8800GTX's. IIRC there should be a SLI section in the NVIDIA Control Panel to enable and disable it.

[Ya Mother]

I havent done anything yet but in the Zotac software i can switch between both cards and they seem to be working fine......will go into nvidia control panel now to see if theres anything i need to do?3

[Lloyd_mcse]

The Zotac software is that like EVGA Precision?
EVGA Precision will also show the cards installed but to actually enable SLI will be in the NVIDIA CP.

[Ya Mother]

Well 5 hours later....in a nutshell i bricked my pc.....just had to do w8 refresh....which basically means nearly reformat.....lost all my apps and games etc......ive still got to re-install cod 4 and steam and steam games to be sort of where i was before it black screened and couldnt boot into windows or bios.....basically my overclockable monitor was at 110hz and when i enabled SLI in Nvidia control panel it locked up and wouldnt reboot into windows again.....had to put w8.1 disc in to do the repair.....what a fook on......gonna leave the benching tomorrow as im all pcd out.

[Lloyd_mcse]

Oh no!
You had issues before with black screen..no?
From what I have heard it only affects 120hz monitors.
Make sure you write up a bug report at NVIDIA.

With all the added crap NVIDIA are bundling with their drivers these days, I'm extra careful when updating, switching Graphics cards etc, for example...

Restart in Safe Mode -> DDU -> shut down and add 2nd card -> now boot into normal mode and install the driver.

EDIT: And see this thread at NVIDIA

[Ya Mother]

Sent a bug report.....black screen issues ive had in the past was down to having a HDMI cable (to tv) plugged into gpu when installing new drivers....just unplug and it's fine now.

Overclocked the Monitor to 96hz and it seems fine....would like 110hz/120hz tbh but don't want to push my luck again lol.

[Ya Mother]

The Zotac software is that like EVGA Precision?
EVGA Precision will also show the cards installed but to actually enable SLI will be in the NVIDIA CP.

its a bit like afterburner but nicer to look at and simpler to oc....... http://www.zotac.com/z-zone/zotac-firestorm.html

[Lloyd_mcse]

Cool, lets hope they fix these black screen issues soon

[Ya Mother]

Ive had the hdmi black screen issue for years now.....dont think they will ever sort that......i know other people who have had same problem and when they unplugged their cable it sorted it.

I'm more concerned about bricking mine again after overclocking my monitor?

[Lloyd_mcse]

Oh really that long!
I use DVI (GFX End) to HDMI (TV/Monitor End) and haven't had any of these issues.

[Ya Mother]

I might try that.