No SLI with Supermicro X6DAE-G2 and 8800GTXs

kato_rax · May 7th, 2007, 10:33 PM

Hi,

I own a Supermicro X6DAE-G2 motherboard which I've previously run 6800GTs and 7900GTXs on in SLI mode. I recently bought some 8800GTXs and rather naively expected them to work as well like the other cards have done in the past. However to my dismay only one of the cards will work at a time, the other always shows up as disabled in Device Manager with the "Code 12 - not enough free resources error" under Windows XP (which is odd because looking around the internet everyone else only seems to be having this problem under Vista).

Anyway I tried everything I could think of (updating drivers, tweaking BIOS settings etc.) to no avail so I contacted the motherboard manufacturer hoping it might be something that could be rectified in a future BIOS update. Having talked it through with them however they suggested that it was because Nvidia wasn't supporting SLI for the intel chipset (E7525 Tumwater) in their drivers for 8800s.

So I contacted Nvidia several weeks ago but have yet to receive a firm response other than an initial "we'll look into it", so now I'm starting to get a little concerned by their silence...

Anyway, appreciate this is probably a long shot (but figure I haven't got much to lose), but would there be any chance that this problem could be solved by a future release of the NGO NVIDIA Optimized Drivers?

Thanks for your time, and most grateful for any help!

Kato Rax

**Regeneration** · May 7th, 2007, 10:53 PM

Your motherboard is not licensed for SLI and Nvidia's software is preventing from using it. The fact you used SLI on this motherboard is because Nvidia probably forgot to add this motherboard to their 'SLI blacklist'. If you want to use SLI, you must play by Nvidia monopoly BS rules and to get nForce instead.

IModAmd · May 7th, 2007, 11:28 PM

Well bro

check after when you check for motherboards if they are compatibles with what you need

kato_rax · May 8th, 2007, 12:09 AM

Thanks for the responses.

Funnily enough Supermicro still advertise this motherboard as being SLI compatible (http://www.supermicro.com/products/sli/) so maybe Nvidia should tell them that it isn't supported anymore!

IModAmd · May 8th, 2007, 12:13 AM

Did you try all the lastest drivers?

IModIntel · May 8th, 2007, 12:54 AM

Wow this sux, did your Supermicro board run without issue with other SLI setups?

kato_rax · May 8th, 2007, 09:23 PM

Yep- I've tried all the latest drivers, and some older ones as well... to no avail!

My 6800GTs and 7900GTXs worked fine in sli on my Supermicro board which I've happily been using in sli configurations since 2005 (although I did have some power problems with the 7900GTXs when running certain games at 2048x1536 with all settings maxed out- the machine would just suddenly power off sometimes, even with a 1100w PSU)

Apart from that, both pairs worked a treat- hence like the idiot I am I just expected the 8800GTXs to work as well!

**Regeneration** · May 8th, 2007, 09:27 PM

Contact Supermicro and ask them if they have SLI license for these motherboards. If they do, then you should call Nvidia and give them some shit/treats about going to the press with it.

IModAmd · May 8th, 2007, 11:04 PM

Welll but nvidia dont care about costumers they just want make $$$ :P

kato_rax · May 9th, 2007, 12:07 AM

Thanks, will contact Supermicro and see what they say...