Asus, Fatal1ty, and SLi OH MY!

[Fubar]

well, I've been unsuccessfuly attempting to utilize my SLi on my Asus AN-8 Fatal1ty Motherboard. I have Dual 9800 GSO's and I'm getting the common "Not Enough Resources" bit when attempting to initialize the 2nd card. This meaning that the IRQ's are the same for both cards.

I've attempted to contact Asus, and was left on hold for 2 and a half hours while waiting for a tech to assist me. I've attempted to contact the Fatal1ty company, and always get redirected to the "manufacturer", the afforementioned, unreachable Asus.

I've relegated myself to the depths of nonsense that are the NVidia.com forums, in a vain attempt to get some assistance. The people there are at a loss as to why I cannot manually assign an IRQ for the 2nd card. I've tried everything that is humanly possible. From Switching my PC to "Standard" mode in the device manager, to Completely wiping the HD, reinstalling XP, in an attempt for it to automatically assign the PCI-e slots their own individual IRQ.

I've since given up on this matter, and I reccommend that NO ONE purchase a damn thing from Asus, Abit, OR Fatal1ty. Their customer service is poor, and their Tech Support is completely nonesxistant.




Specs:

AMD 3200+ 2.0ghz (Upgrading SOOOOON)
Asus AN-8SLi Fatal1ty Edition MoBo
4GB Corsair RAM
80GB HD (yeah, it's old )
Single Geforce 9800GSO ( cry my 2nd is wasting away! )
Audigy 5.1 S.C.

 

[JoHoN69]

first i cant find anything about a asus an8-sli fatal1ty
so i asume you mean ABIT an8-sli fatal1ty
now are u using the latest BIOS on the abit website for the board?
http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_bios_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE=Bios&pMAIN_TYPE=Motherboard&pTITLE_ON_SCREEN=Fatal1ty+AN8+SLI&pSOCKET_TYPE=Socket%20939
this sounds like a fun problem to fix but lets start with the bios question and move on from there
also there is a little card inbetween the pci express slots are you flipping it to sli mode and attaching the SLI bridge to the video cards??

 

[bigbaddabooma]

putting those in sli will bottle neck..

 

[Munkypoo7]

putting those in sli will bottle neck..

yea exactly what i was thinking... youll probably get the best performance possible through one card, two is a waste on an old athlon like that..

 

[L1m!teD]

Well I dunno about you but I have an ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 Non-SLI and if I didn't buy this motherboard my PC would hardly be running GTA IV. I've got 2GB DDR1 RAM, ASUS GeForce EN9600GSO 384MB DDR3 with GlaciatorFansink, AMD Athlon 64 3700+. This motherboard has everything (not mentioning that I used to have an ATi graphics card with vGuru, combined with the mobo's uGuru utility I could overclock the graphics card a lot but it got old so I had to change it). Also using the Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty SoundBlaster Champion sound card. The sound rules!