Sli System Trouble - VGA in 4 bit colour!!!

[maverik007]

Dear Friends,

I need your help with my A8n-Sli.

My system consists of:

1x A8N-Sli Motherboard 1002 BIOS
2x XFX 6800GT PCI-E (Sli Ready)
1x 74GB Raptor
2x 512MB OZC PC4400 RAM

I also have an Audigy 2 ZS Soundcard, but that is not installed yet.

The problem is that with the parts installed as detailed above, XP/BIOS will not register resources (IRQ) to the graphics cards. At present I am running in 640*480 in 4 bit colour.

I reinstalled windows but no joy.

Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

Cheers

Mav

 

[FastEddie]

Install the chipset drivers? Which graphics drivers did you install? What OS? What SP's? What psu?

 

[Peter]

That's not an IRQ fault. It looks like the BIOS isn't allocating any resources past legacy VGA resources.

Try a PCI VGA card just for the proof, and look for BIOS updates. Early adopter's joy ...

 

[maverik007]

PSU = OCZ Powerstream 520w

Installation order:

WinXp Home
Service PK2
Chipset Drivers
Graphics Driver 66.77 then 66.93

Control panel - System

Shows Cards but both report not enough resources to allocate.

Help!!

 

[FastEddie]

Try clearing your cmos.

 

[maverik007]

Sussed it.

The PCI-E Connectors supplied with the XFX have the 6-pin connector to the card and two molex females coming out of them. I had (due to lack of spare molex power leads) just connected to one side.

I did this because there are no PCI-E instructions with the GFX (manual is for AGP??).

Now I have made an extra molex available and made sure all of the connections have power, probl;em solved.

Man, this new technology is great, if only they explained how to use it!!??

Cheers for teh posts guys, I really appreciate your quick replies.

Mav