Although Vista will use a single card...

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Although Vista will use a single card, Vista does not support SLI mode.
SLI improves performance by as much as 80%
Is MS planning to fix this?
 
Pete said:
Although Vista will use a single card, Vista does not support SLI mode.
SLI improves performance by as much as 80%
Is MS planning to fix this?
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This is really an Nvidia issue. The talk is that 7 series SLI support will
happen sometime in March.
 
JimR said:
This is really an Nvidia issue. The talk is that 7 series SLI support will
happen sometime in March.
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That's good, I have a 7959 x2 video card(s).
Now, my Asus M2N32-sli Deluxe MB needs a SOUND driver, and I'm ready to go
with Vista.
-Pete
 
I'm not sure how easily to tell, but the sound might be integrated on the
board.
The control panel says: "SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio"
What does that tell you??
 
Pete said:
That's nice, but I have a 7959 x2 video card(s).
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Ah! the elusive additional information about your issue.
Tricky one this if they are just putting beta support for the 8xxx series
out now - give the propensity to now deprecate support for lower model cards
unless there are other plans in the works that would result in SLI on Vista
on the 7xxx after the 8xxx is done then you may not get a driver that
provides that support or if you do it will be later this year.
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Bummer.
My MB, an ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe only has beta drivers as far as I can tell.
It's a fairly new board, you'd think they'd have this worked out.
-Pete
 
Looks like it needs an S ATA driver too. Geez.

Pete said:
Bummer.
My MB, an ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe only has beta drivers as far as I can
tell. It's a fairly new board, you'd think they'd have this worked out.
-Pete
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Heck the creative X-FI is Creative's latest offering and they currently only
have beta drivers, so don't feel bad.

I had an ASUS KT800 board that didn't have native SATA support, but that was
under XP. I haven't seen how it plays under Vista. I would have guessed a
new board would of have Native SATA support, so that you wouldn't need
Floppys to install the drivers. Next time, get an Abit (just kidding).

If you have a soundmax, then the Realtek drivers won't work. doesn't look
like SM has drivers on their page, they just point you to someone elses.
 
Ah! the elusive additional information about your issue.
Tricky one this if they are just putting beta support for the 8xxx series
out now - give the propensity to now deprecate support for lower model cards
unless there are other plans in the works that would result in SLI on Vista
on the 7xxx after the 8xxx is done then you may not get a driver that
provides that support or if you do it will be later this year.
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Elusive?

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Scott said:
Elusive?

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Yes elusive - the hidden information Pete did not provide which would have
allowed a more direct and accurate response.
All he said was about SLI for nVidia cards nothing about the model he was
actually interested in.
 
Mike Brannigan spake thusly on 2/23/2007 2:23 AM:
Yes elusive - the hidden information Pete did not provide which would
have allowed a more direct and accurate response.
All he said was about SLI for nVidia cards nothing about the model he
was actually interested in.
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Actually he did in the 4th post in the thread (response to "JimR"). The
above gibberish is the message ID.

It can also be seen here:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general/msg/e8c16c80e4eef7ba

:-)
 
What Mike is getting at is that a person should not have to pull teeth to
try to assist someone. The original poster should supply *ALL* pertinent
information in the first post. If the very first answer to his post asks for
additional facts, the O/P should supply them. I have seen posts here where
3-4 people ask for additional facts - yet the O/P just goes on and on
without presenting what he was asked for.

It has gotten to the point where if I am trying to assist someone, and he
comes in with more information that will help 10-15 posts in, I just drop
out of the thread. I let others deal with the lack of necessary info.

What further has he NOT stated that could make one's task a bit easier -
like he knows that he has an intermittent electrical wall outlet. YES, that
has happened in one of the Windows XP news groups a few years ago - after
the thread went on for about 50 posts.

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