Advice on Two Components Needed

I spoke to my Brother today and he told me he just purchased a ASUS
A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo and a Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card. He said
that he is having trouble getting the card to work properly and can only get
one of the cards working. I'm still using AGP so was not able to advise him
on what he should do. So, I thought I would ask a couple of questions here


Firstly, is this card compatible with this mobo? Secondly, if it is, how do
you get it to work properly?

Apologies for being a bit vague about his situation.

Cheers.

Si


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"Si" wrote in message
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I spoke to my Brother today and he told me he just purchased a ASUS
A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo and a Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card. He said
that he is having trouble getting the card to work properly and can only
get one of the cards working. I'm still using AGP so was not able to advise
him on what he should do. So, I thought I would ask a couple of questions
here
Firstly, is this card compatible with this mobo? Secondly, if it is, how
do you get it to work properly?

The A8N32-SLI is like the poster-boy for SLI motherboards. It is quite
compatible with the 7950GX2. Be sure he has the latest BIOS release.

Your brother isn't running Vista by any chance is he? Current nVidia Vista
drivers don't support SLI.

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Yes, but isn't single-action more accurate, so technically two clicks?

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"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Si" wrote in message
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I spoke to my Brother today and he told me he just purchased a ASUS
A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo and a Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card. He said
that he is having trouble getting the card to work properly and can only
get one of the cards working. I'm still using AGP so was not able to advise
him on what he should do. So, I thought I would ask a couple of questions
here

Firstly, is this card compatible with this mobo? Secondly, if it is, how
do you get it to work properly?

Apologies for being a bit vague about his situation.

Cheers.

Si

Did he install the latests nvidia drivers ?

If those dont support the card then try the manufacturer's website, maybe
they have a quick and dirty hacked up driver which does support it !

Bye,
Skybuck.

He's not running Vista but he does have a AMD Athlon 64 processor. I'm not
sure if that's relevant but I thought I would mention it.

Cheers.

Si


"First of One" wrote in message
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"Si" wrote in message
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I spoke to my Brother today and he told me he just purchased a ASUS
A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo and a Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card. He said
that he is having trouble getting the card to work properly and can only
get one of the cards working. I'm still using AGP so was not able to
advise him on what he should do. So, I thought I would ask a couple of
questions here
Firstly, is this card compatible with this mobo? Secondly, if it is, how
do you get it to work properly?

The A8N32-SLI is like the poster-boy for SLI motherboards. It is quite
compatible with the 7950GX2. Be sure he has the latest BIOS release.

Your brother isn't running Vista by any chance is he? Current nVidia Vista
drivers don't support SLI.

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Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface.
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Yes, but isn't single-action more accurate, so technically two clicks?

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Just got an email from my Brother saying that his son reckons the reason
they can only get one card working is due to the fact that their system is
64bit. Can anyone confirm that this card will not run properly on a 64bit
system?

Cheers.

Si


"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message
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"Si" wrote in message
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I spoke to my Brother today and he told me he just purchased a ASUS
A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo and a Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card. He said
that he is having trouble getting the card to work properly and can only
get one of the cards working. I'm still using AGP so was not able to
advise him on what he should do. So, I thought I would ask a couple of
questions here

Firstly, is this card compatible with this mobo? Secondly, if it is, how
do you get it to work properly?

Apologies for being a bit vague about his situation.

Cheers.

Si

Did he install the latests nvidia drivers ?

If those dont support the card then try the manufacturer's website, maybe
they have a quick and dirty hacked up driver which does support it !

Bye,
Skybuck.

His son is mistaken. Both the nVidia Windows 32-bit and Windows x64 drivers
explicitly support the 7950GX2 and SLI game profiles.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Si" wrote in message
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Just got an email from my Brother saying that his son reckons the reason
they can only get one card working is due to the fact that their system is
64bit. Can anyone confirm that this card will not run properly on a 64bit
system?

Cheers.

Si

Would they need to be running Windows XP Pro 64 for it to work properly or
should it work on the normal Windows XP Pro? This is what my Nephew is now
saying the problem is but, again, I think he's wrong.

Cheers.

Si

"First of One" wrote in message
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His son is mistaken. Both the nVidia Windows 32-bit and Windows x64
drivers explicitly support the 7950GX2 and SLI game profiles.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Si" wrote in message
...
Just got an email from my Brother saying that his son reckons the reason
they can only get one card working is due to the fact that their system
is 64bit. Can anyone confirm that this card will not run properly on a
64bit system?

Cheers.

Si

The Athlon64 can run either XP Pro 32-bit or XP Pro 64-bit, and the 7950GX2
can work in either environment. In fact, Athlon64 + 7950GX2 is a fairly
popular combination.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Si" wrote in message
...
Would they need to be running Windows XP Pro 64 for it to work properly or
should it work on the normal Windows XP Pro? This is what my Nephew is now
saying the problem is but, again, I think he's wrong.

Cheers.

Si

"First of One" wrote in message
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His son is mistaken. Both the nVidia Windows 32-bit and Windows x64
drivers explicitly support the 7950GX2 and SLI game profiles.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Si" wrote in message
...
Just got an email from my Brother saying that his son reckons the reason
they can only get one card working is due to the fact that their system
is 64bit. Can anyone confirm that this card will not run properly on a
64bit system?

Thanks for your help and advice First. I've no idea what they're doing wrong
but I think I'll leave them to it

Cheers.

Si

"First of One" wrote in message
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The Athlon64 can run either XP Pro 32-bit or XP Pro 64-bit, and the
7950GX2 can work in either environment. In fact, Athlon64 + 7950GX2 is a
fairly popular combination.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Si" wrote in message
...
Would they need to be running Windows XP Pro 64 for it to work properly
or should it work on the normal Windows XP Pro? This is what my Nephew is
now saying the problem is but, again, I think he's wrong.

Cheers.

Si

"First of One" wrote in message
...
His son is mistaken. Both the nVidia Windows 32-bit and Windows x64
drivers explicitly support the 7950GX2 and SLI game profiles.

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Si" wrote in message
...
Just got an email from my Brother saying that his son reckons the
reason they can only get one card working is due to the fact that their
system is 64bit. Can anyone confirm that this card will not run
properly on a 64bit system?