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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
I have a 6800GS. A recent driver update seems to have caused the
machine to boot with SLI enabled. Since there's no second graphic card, this causes a popup saying that the missing graphics card forces SLI to be disabled on each bootup. Each, because SLI being disabled doesn't seem to be saved, and it's on again next boot. It's annoying, so I tried to stop it. The control panel has only one SLI related part -- and that just shows a link to their Web site (which clicking the balloon at startup also does). The Web page says a lot about how to set up SLI, but nothing about how to turn it off. My PSU can barely run one 6800, and that one card runs Quake 4 decently; I don't need another. Especially not on my budget. Searching the help accessed from the control panel doesn't produce any more information. This stinks of spam. It looks like the driver update included a "feature" that nags you incessantly if you have an SLI-capable card but no second such card until you get one, and which deliberately either can't be turned off or requires something obscure done to turn it off. Say it ain't so. And please, someone, tell me how to disable these SLI notifications! (Other than rolling back the drivers, which Half-Life 2: Episode One doesn't like, or actually purchasing a new video card.) |
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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
This has been mentioned several times before. It is not a case of turning
SLI off, it is a problem with the latest official drivers. A simple registry fix is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\ Global\MediaCenterTray NvCplDisableBalloonNotifications = 1 (dword) Mike Bernstein wrote in message oups.com... I have a 6800GS. A recent driver update seems to have caused the machine to boot with SLI enabled. Since there's no second graphic card, this causes a popup saying that the missing graphics card forces SLI to be disabled on each bootup. Each, because SLI being disabled doesn't seem to be saved, and it's on again next boot. It's annoying, so I tried to stop it. The control panel has only one SLI related part -- and that just shows a link to their Web site (which clicking the balloon at startup also does). The Web page says a lot about how to set up SLI, but nothing about how to turn it off. My PSU can barely run one 6800, and that one card runs Quake 4 decently; I don't need another. Especially not on my budget. Searching the help accessed from the control panel doesn't produce any more information. This stinks of spam. It looks like the driver update included a "feature" that nags you incessantly if you have an SLI-capable card but no second such card until you get one, and which deliberately either can't be turned off or requires something obscure done to turn it off. Say it ain't so. And please, someone, tell me how to disable these SLI notifications! (Other than rolling back the drivers, which Half-Life 2: Episode One doesn't like, or actually purchasing a new video card.) |
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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
Mike Bernstein wrote:
It is a problem with the latest official drivers. An accidental problem, or a deliberate problem? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\ Global\MediaCenterTray NvCplDisableBalloonNotifications = 1 (dword) Thanks. Sounds like it will fix the nag, but not the underlying problem (which is that it thinks I should have a 2nd gfx card). |
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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
Plugging in your monitor to the card's other output seems to fix it:
As does using the registry change. As does using the 91.33 beta drivers. Read the other posts in this group before posting so much redundant info (yes, including the adware/spam conspiracy). For one thing, the message appears with SLI-incapable AGP cards, too... -- "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." wrote in message oups.com... I have a 6800GS. A recent driver update seems to have caused the machine to boot with SLI enabled. Since there's no second graphic card, this causes a popup saying that the missing graphics card forces SLI to be disabled on each bootup. Each, because SLI being disabled doesn't seem to be saved, and it's on again next boot. It's annoying, so I tried to stop it. The control panel has only one SLI related part -- and that just shows a link to their Web site (which clicking the balloon at startup also does). The Web page says a lot about how to set up SLI, but nothing about how to turn it off. My PSU can barely run one 6800, and that one card runs Quake 4 decently; I don't need another. Especially not on my budget. Searching the help accessed from the control panel doesn't produce any more information. This stinks of spam. It looks like the driver update included a "feature" that nags you incessantly if you have an SLI-capable card but no second such card until you get one, and which deliberately either can't be turned off or requires something obscure done to turn it off. Say it ain't so. And please, someone, tell me how to disable these SLI notifications! (Other than rolling back the drivers, which Half-Life 2: Episode One doesn't like, or actually purchasing a new video card.) |
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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
First of One wrote:
Plugging in your monitor to the card's other output seems to fix it: Thanks. Seems cleaner than a registry hack. As does using the 91.33 beta drivers. Beta ... ugh. Beta user-mode software is dangerous enough. Beta kernel-mode software is begging for data loss. Read the other posts in this group before posting so much redundant info Please don't order me around. This isn't boot camp and you aren't my drill sergeant. In fact this is Usenet and you are another anonymous member of the anarchic mob, as far as I am concerned. I don't have the time to read high traffic groups thoroughly and regularly; you'll have to be satisfied that I did a cursory google search without turning up any information and that I quickly looked for it, but there was no obvious recent FAQ posting visible in the group's thread list. For one thing, the message appears with SLI-incapable AGP cards, too... That's especially strange. Or maybe they're an even juicier target -- maybe they can sell the rest *one* video card, but they might be able to sell *these* people *two*. I can confirm that it appears with SLI-capable PCI-E 16 cards, though, in case nobody had before. |
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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
DRS wrote:
Please don't order me around. This isn't boot camp and you aren't my drill sergeant. In fact this is Usenet and you are another anonymous member of the anarchic mob, as far as I am concerned. He has every right to ask you to show consideration to others. I wholeheartedly agree. Perhaps then next time he should, well, *ask*. It's rather ironic that you should imply I didn't show someone some consideration, in response to my irritation at someone being demanding, as if they owned the Internet or something. There are about 6 similar threads in this forum alone. None that were evident from glancing at the first page of thread Subject:s. (You didn't expect me to actually read the threads themselves, did you, even those with seemingly-unimportant or unrelated subjects? It's up to posters to use informative subject headings, not up to the reader to peer into a crystal ball and magically divine which threads might be relevant but don't, on the surface, look like they are. Crystal balls are expensive, you know -- over $100 in the local curio shop. I don't have that kind of cash lying around to spend just to satisfy some random usenetter's whim about what level of clairvoyance the posters to some froup ought to have before posting. Now come on! ) |
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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
wrote in message
oups.com DRS wrote: [...] There are about 6 similar threads in this forum alone. None that were evident from glancing at the first page of thread [...] have before posting. Now come on! ) Google is your friend. A quick search on this newsgroup for the keyword "SLI" within the past two months reveals 7 threads on this topic, including this one. |
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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
DRS wrote:
[Search google for "SLI"] Right. And wade through a zillion irrelevant occurrences of that very common three-letter combo before hitting something relevant. Easier to ask. Human beings are much smarter than Google's computers at understanding what you *mean* and not just blindly looking for groups of letters. |
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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
Let's make it clear. You came here asking for help. I did you a favor by
answering with helpful information. I'm not nVidia tech support. In the end nobody cares if the card doesn't work for you. -- "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." wrote in message oups.com... Please don't order me around. This isn't boot camp and you aren't my drill sergeant. In fact this is Usenet and you are another anonymous member of the anarchic mob, as far as I am concerned. I don't have the time to read high traffic groups thoroughly and regularly; you'll have to be satisfied that I did a cursory google search without turning up any information and that I quickly looked for it, but there was no obvious recent FAQ posting visible in the group's thread list. |
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Disabling SLI on 6800GS
First of One wrote:
Let's make it clear. You came here asking for help. I did you a favor by answering with helpful information. Unfortunately, you also took a demanding tone at one point, for no obvious reason and without provocation; my previous post had been quite civil in tone. It is that to which I objected, not the help. The card itself works fine. As others noted, the problem is with the drivers. |
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