From what I have heard you have to...
#1 Have the correct sli bridge. Such as 100-3W-0032-LR for 3-way, or 100-4w-0042-LR for 4-way. Bridges without metal contact points won't work from what I have heard.
#2 Enable sli inside the nvidia control panel.
#3 Download
nvidia inspector 1.9.7.8, and open the profile inspector that is included with it.
#4 Make sure you have the profile _global_driver_profile (base profile) selected.
#5 Click the button "show unknown settings from nvidia predefined profiles" to show all hidden profiles.
#6 Scroll down the settings list until you find the section listed as SLI, and change the following settings...
- "number of gpus to use on sli rendering mode" to 3 or 4 depending on how many gpus you want to run.
- "nvidia predefined number of gpus to use on sli render mode" to 3 or 4 depending on how many gpus you want to run.
- "nvidia predefined number of gpus to use on sli render mode on directx 10" to 3 or 4 depending on how many gpus you want to run.
#7 Scroll down the settings list again until you find the section listed as unknown, and change the setting 0x10FD4C5F (7 profiles) to use 0x01F296C1. Scroll down more and change the setting 0x209FD306 (27 profiles) to use 0x0FC00008.
#8 Click apply changes and your done.
I also heard you might need to do the same for each game profile you're trying to run in sli if adjusting the base profile doesn't work. You may also need to set only 0x01F296C1, or 0x0FC00008, but sometimes you may need to set both under each individual profile.