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hi can someone help me, in can't enable SLI in nvida control panel is greyed out !
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 17:11:57
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What motherboard and CPU are you using? Also, is your SLI connector fully seated?
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 17:22:33
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hi scarlet Thanks for the reply
My motherboard is a asrock z97 extreme 6 and my CPU is a Intel 4790k. yeah i have put the SLI connector all the way like 20 times now
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 17:35:36
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hi scarlet Thanks for the reply
My motherboard is a asrock z97 extreme 6 and my CPU is a Intel 4790k. yeah i have put the SLI connector all the way like 20 times now
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 17:58:11
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The next suggestion would be to move your monitors to the second card, and make sure it is coming out of idle properly.
Can you go into the bios and make sure your pci lanes are set to Gen 3? I see that GPU-z is reporting x8 1.1 on the second card because it isn’t being pinged to work since sli isn’t enabled. I would just check to make sure the bios is allowing that card to go to pci 3.0 when you have a moment.
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 18:00:30
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Your issue is most likely due to using two 970’s which aren’t compatible with each other. This was one of the issues back then. Another issue could be that one of the sli fingers on one of the cards could be defective. Best way to check the fingers is to use a flex sli bridge, and test each set of sli fingers.
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 19:35:35
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hi
can someone help me, in can't enable SLI in nvida control panel is greyed out !
Your device ID for each 970 is the same 10DE-13C2 the subsystem ID for EVGA and Gigabyte shouldn't matter. So they should work together. First question: do both cards work normally alone? I'd had numerous bad hard SLI bridges, so I stopped using them. As was suggested, try another SLI bridge.
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 19:57:23
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i move my monitor to the second card but they do not response fast enough to go into the bios only windows, i switch them again and enter the bios the PCIE settings was in AUTO i put them in GEN 3 but same thing. can't enable SLI they where both in 3.0 in gpuz this time
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 20:01:56
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hi
can someone help me, in can't enable SLI in nvida control panel is greyed out !
Your device ID for each 970 is the same 10DE-13C2 the subsystem ID for EVGA and Gigabyte shouldn't matter. So they should work together.
First question: do both cards work normally alone?
I'd had numerous bad hard SLI bridges, so I stopped using them. As was suggested, try another SLI bridge.
my SLI bridge is the one with the motherboard came out is a hard bridge, is brand new i have never open it until now. does they can be bad brand new ?
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 20:03:22
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Yes, a faulty bridge is possible.
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 20:05:57
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The next suggestion would be to move your monitors to the second card, and make sure it is coming out of idle properly.
Can you go into the bios and make sure your pci lanes are set to Gen 3? I see that GPU-z is reporting x8 1.1 on the second card because it isn’t being pinged to work since sli isn’t enabled. I would just check to make sure the bios is allowing that card to go to pci 3.0 when you have a moment.
i move my monitor to the second card but they do not response fast enough to go into the bios only windows, i switch them again and enter the bios the PCIE settings was in AUTO i put them in GEN 3 but same thing. can't enable SLI they where both in 3.0 in gpuz this time
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 20:08:05
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Sajin
Yes, a faulty bridge is possible.
i will try another one thanks
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/08 22:47:59
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There are certain restrictions when running GTX 970 cards in SLI..See GTX 970 and SLI functionality in the EVGA FAQs..Your PCIe x16 3.0 "Bus Interface" in GPU-Z is fine running @ x8 which is the lowest at which SLI will function..It seems that your EVGA and Gigabyte 970s are incompatible in SLI with each other.
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
2021/09/09 03:01:49
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I honestly completely forgot about the 970’s not playing well together.
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Re: Can't enable SLI with my gtx 970
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