Anybody got their SLI setup working?

[marvguitar]

I AM NOT talking about SLI acceleration in Leopard, only if having a SLI setup(2 cards) can allow you to boot in Leopard with QE CI.

 

I have a striker extreme mobo with 2x BFG 8800 GTS 640MB and i get a panic just before entering in Leopard.

 

When i boot Leopard with the 2 cards installed and no Nvinject it works fine but i don't have QE CI and both cards have the same DevID (0x019310de)

 

I was wondering if anybody has any idea on what i could do to make this work? what to modify in the pLists or if there's any known driver for 2 cards under one hood...

 

***If i remove 1 card it works perfectly with QE/CI and everything.

[cyclonefr]

doesn't work and will never work since real mac don't support SLI, period.

 

Have a nice day.

[marvguitar]

doesn't work and will never work since real mac don't support SLI, period.

 

Have a nice day.

 

 

Never say never...

[mitfried]

a working SLI-setup (i mean 2GPUs als one big GPU) will not work,ok but does anyone know how to boot up Leo with 2 equal 8800gt cards?? since the vga-driver is installed i can only boot properly with one card installed, is there any workaround ?? (mobo:EVGA 680i)

[kainz0r]

doesn't work and will never work since real mac don't support SLI, period.

 

Have a nice day.

 

Actually, to be more accurate, OSX does not support using SLI configurations to handle 3D rendering. What you've failed to realize is that having two cards in a system with an SLI bridge attached to them doesn't mean that all 3D functionality they perform is SLI and requires SLI support. In fact, they continue to operate as two seperate distinct videocards, a configuration which OSX can indeed support. The kernel panic messages he is recieving is likely due to how NVinject is handling having multiple cards in the system. Various versions of NVinject may handle the situation better - an alternate solution, if he only has one monitor attached to one card would be to use a PCI EFI string to allow that one singular card to be usable by OSX, and avoid the use of NVinject entirely. I happen to be aware of this, because that is how I have OSX working in my SLI-configuration system. NVinject 0.0.9 worked for me, as did generating a graphics string specific to my videocard.

 

So you could attempt to help him by suggesting trying different versions of NVinject, or alternately pointing him towards netkas.org and PCI EFI strings. Or you could just make a two-line post saying "never will, have a nice day".

[mitfried]

@kainzOr:

thank you for you post, i didn't use nvinject or nvinstaller for my 8800GT but the 8800GT-Efi Pack from this post.

Everything worked fine except that i had to modify the in.plist "vram totalsize" to 1024MB (AAAAQA) AND that i had to unplug one GT card after installation.

if you got your 2 cards working or at least bootable then please could you tell me your correct way at the driver installation. have you done it with the same 8800GT EFI Pack?

[DOCa Cola]

have you tried the natit version for dual cards? you can get them from the natit site too

[mitfried]

have you tried the natit version for dual cards? you can get them from the natit site too

 

i tried nvinject 009 with no success on 2 cards (one card is fine)

 

EDIT: got it working now, although only one card is funktional.

I used the EFI-String Method only and just for the top card (make sure to insert the true pcie path for the FIRST card) to get past the freezing issue at startup.

The second card won't be recognized and system is usable.

[nigelbb]

I have two Nvidia Quadro NVS 285 cards working with CI & QE driving four monitors connected by DVI on a GA-P35-DS3P. It took quite a lot of experimentation to find the winning formula but it now works perfectly using NVinject.0.2.0d_universal_dual_cards http://nvinject.free.fr/files/NVinject.0.2..._dual_cards.zip & setting PEG2 as primary display in the BIOS.