Lonek
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I bought a 2nd EVGA gtx970 today and for the life of me I can't get the SLI to work. Both cards show up in the control panel, but no matter what I do the SLI option remains disabled and grayed out. I've swapped locations of the cards, tried 3 different bridge cables, uninstalled and reinstalled drivers multiple times, tried different boot up sequences with one and two drivers, and nothing seems to fix the fact that the SLI remains grayed out. I should mention that my MB is a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI and am using windows 8. Please help. Thanks, Alex
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 00:52:25
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Is your motherboard on the newest bios?
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 00:56:01
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Hello Lonek
In the screen shot Maximize 3D Performance is checked off and enabled. They should be running in SLI mode at this point. However you are receiving the errors message about the bridge not being connected. Your only option would be to try a Bios update for the motherboard and to test the cards in another system in order to verify if the board or one of the cards is causing the issue.
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Lonek
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 08:12:25
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I just updated the board to the latest Bios hoping that would fix the issue, but the SLI configuration still is grayed out. How would I determine if one of the cards or the board is causing the issue? Thanks!
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 08:32:32
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This should get you up and running.  EDIT: The link in this post has been edited. Please extract error has been fixed with the updated link.
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Lonek
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 08:48:08
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Sajin
should get you up and running.
Tried using that last night and every time I got to the install part I'd get the attached error. Everything is extracted and the patch says successful. Any thoughts?
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 08:57:10
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Disable all antivirus programs. Re-download & re-extract the files and try again.
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 08:58:13
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Sajin
Disable all antivirus programs. Re-download & re-extract the files and try again.
Don't have any antivirus installed yet; this pc is pretty much fresh out of the box.
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:02:42
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Did you run both DifferentSLIAuto.exe & Install.cmd as admin?
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Lonek
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:04:38
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Yeah, ran both as admin. Just keep getting the please extract everything message.
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:07:27
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Open the extracted tools folder and tell me how many files are in it.
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:08:54
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7 files
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Lonek
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:12:01
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And here's what I get after patching
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:18:45
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Drop this install.cmd into your extracted files and try again.
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Lonek
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:21:20
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Same deal :( maybe easier to skyp/screen share if you have time?
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Sajin
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:25:24
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Sure, download teamviewer and send me your info to my e-mail. I'll send you a PM with my e-mail.
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:28:15
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Check the bridge cable and remember the way it is connected now. Take it off and turn it upside down and retry.
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 09:43:41
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The patcher wasn't able to find the tools folder files. You need to extract all the files onto your local C:\ drive and try again.
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Lonek
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 10:54:12
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I finally got it to work!!! I had to use this version of the download, and that did the trick. The only thing is that now my PC runs in test mode. Not sure if that's an issue or not. Sajin, thanks so much for the help!
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 11:04:39
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No problem.
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/23 11:11:27
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Running in test mode shouldn't be a problem.
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/24 21:54:16
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Hi, i have the same problem, i tried with DifferentSLIAuto :( i reboot and nothing, only test mode
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/24 22:08:29
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fitibirlo
Hi, i have the same problem, i tried with DifferentSLIAuto :( i reboot and nothing, only test mode
Did you follow the DifferentSLIAuto1.1_2 readme exactly as shown? Have you tried using a different SLI bridge? Are you sure your SLI bridge isn't upside down?
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/24 22:57:58
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Now work! how can I be sure that works well?, as this not using 100% of the gpu 2, in crysis 3, use %100 for the first gpu and second only %60, thats normal in sli?
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Re: EVGA GTX 970 SLI Issue
2014/11/24 23:40:19
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Depending in the game, yes.
AMD 3700x / X-570 Aorus Ultra / RTX-3090 FTW3
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