Discussion // System Failure

[Game and Player]

"System Failure," by Ed Kirchgessner.

[Michael Ubaldi]

Big rewards, with unfortunately commensurate risks.

[Ed Kirchgessner]

My problem is that I'm often attracted to niche and products and new technologies. For whatever reason, I was obsessed last November with multi-GPU setups and hopped aboard the SLI bandwagon. The problem? Asus stopped providing updates for my motherboard's chipset, and it wasn't able to properly communicate with Nvidia's latest graphics drivers.

Of course now that I'm researching things, I'm finding that the motherboards I like tend to be for intel's i7 chipsets rather than the older (and more established) Core 2 models. Why must I make things so bloody difficult?

[Michael Ubaldi]

Originally Posted by Ed Kirchgessner

Why must I make things so bloody difficult?

I know. It's hip to be square!

[Magiz]

Computers in general can be such a pain sometimes. You can be the most skilled person with computers, and there will always come a day when they do something that drives you crazy.

[Masakuni]

Originally Posted by Ed Kirchgessner

My problem is that I'm often attracted to niche and products and new technologies. For whatever reason, I was obsessed last November with multi-GPU setups and hopped aboard the SLI bandwagon. The problem? Asus stopped providing updates for my motherboard's chipset, and it wasn't able to properly communicate with Nvidia's latest graphics drivers.

Of course now that I'm researching things, I'm finding that the motherboards I like tend to be for intel's i7 chipsets rather than the older (and more established) Core 2 models. Why must I make things so bloody difficult?

You should be able find updates for your chipset by looking at the chipset manufacturers website and not asus. Im guessing its most likely Nvidia since you a running SLi so id get the chipset and card drivers from nvidia's website. Or if its an intel chipset get the drivers from intel.

[Ed Kirchgessner]

Originally Posted by Masakuni

You should be able find updates for your chipset by looking at the chipset manufacturers website and not asus. Im guessing its most likely Nvidia since you a running SLi so id get the chipset and card drivers from nvidia's website. Or if its an intel chipset get the drivers from intel.

Oh - I've looked. The problem is that my motherboard was the only one ever made that uses this particular Nvidia chipset (didn't realize this till after the fact) – it's an SLI revision of a non-SLI motherboard

I've tried installing the closest drivers on Nvidia's site (those for the non-SLI version of the board), but they aren't recognized as compatible. Asus, on the other hand, hasn't updated their bios or driver entries for this board in quite some time. I may contact Nvidia for a workaround. I've already contacted my PC builder, who's graciously agreed to have the system shipped back to California, but I would rather not be separated from the system for a long time

[dropK1CK_ninJA]

I haven't run in the hardware race in a long time...

[Ed Kirchgessner]

Originally Posted by dropK1CK_ninJA

I haven't run in the hardware race in a long time...

You're probably better off

[Masakuni]

Originally Posted by Ed Kirchgessner

Oh - I've looked. The problem is that my motherboard was the only one ever made that uses this particular Nvidia chipset (didn't realize this till after the fact) – it's an SLI revision of a non-SLI motherboard

I've tried installing the closest drivers on Nvidia's site (those for the non-SLI version of the board), but they aren't recognized as compatible. Asus, on the other hand, hasn't updated their bios or driver entries for this board in quite some time. I may contact Nvidia for a workaround. I've already contacted my PC builder, who's graciously agreed to have the system shipped back to California, but I would rather not be separated from the system for a long time

This is the first time Ive heard of this one. Good luck with getting a solution to this, its always annoying to find that there is very little or no support/updates.