First post, by Yasashii
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I have an Asus M3N78-VM motherboard with GeForce 8200 onboard graphics. I also have a GeForce 9800 GT in the pcie 16x slot.
Up until this point I've been using just the 9800 GT and had the onboard 8200 turned off in BIOS. Today, I've decided to see whether I can squeeze out anything else out of this rig so since the motherboard is Hybrid SLI-enabled, I'd like to see whether I can use the technology to that end. Some people say that Hybrid SLI is only supported by Windows Vista, others say that it also works on Windows 7, I wanted to see for myself.
So, I followed the manual and that's what I did:
- I uninstalled the display driver.
- I went to BIOS, set the "Primary Graphics Adapter" setting to "Internal VGA First", and the "Hybrid SLI Mode" setting to "mGPU always enable".
- I saved the settings and turned off my computer. I unplugged my monitor from the 9800 GT and plugged it into the onboard 8200.
- I went to BIOS again to make sure that the "Hybrid SLI Frame Buffer Size" setting is set to 256MB.
- I installed the 258.96 version of forceware (apparently the last version to support Hybrid SLI).
- I restarted the computer and expected to see a Hybrid SLI icon in the tray. The manual claims that it should be there. It isn't.
I haven't been able to find anything SLI-related in the Nvidia Control Panel either.
Did I do something wrong? Is there a compatibility problem? Should I use a different version of forceware? Is the opinion that Hybrid SLI works on Windows 7 not true?