i think i have run into something new, well i setup my system:
a8n-sli
2 x 6800gts
3200+
4 36g raptors
powerstream 600watt
my first setup involved just the 1 card as initially i only had 400wat psu before the powerstream came. and 2 raptors in raid on the sil3114. everything was working fine, ran all the 3dmarks a few times with good 1 card setup scores. ran prime 4 about 9 hrs with cpu at 3.3ghz.
but then my powerstream arrives, i slap that in put the extra card in, swaped over the ez thingy for sli. turned system on, it gets to windows, then blue screen thingy. i try a few times, but system so unstable, cant get into 3dmarks. so i thought it might need a format for sli, so i start formatting and now it just wont let me finish a windows install, sometimes it gets to the windows agreement thingy then just freezes, or sometimes near the end of windows install then freezes tryed all the different slots on both sata controllers, also tried a single sata install with no luck.
tried it again with the 1 card.
tried all the final bios, but nope cant finish windows install wat eva i do
also since i put the 2nd card in there's been artifacts, to me it seems like the
2 much ram oc kind of artifacts so i used some dif ram from other system but still same thing, tried both the vid cards in non sli, but still artifacts.
so could the artifacts be related to not being able to install windows
a8n-sli
2 x 6800gts
3200+
4 36g raptors
powerstream 600watt
my first setup involved just the 1 card as initially i only had 400wat psu before the powerstream came. and 2 raptors in raid on the sil3114. everything was working fine, ran all the 3dmarks a few times with good 1 card setup scores. ran prime 4 about 9 hrs with cpu at 3.3ghz.
but then my powerstream arrives, i slap that in put the extra card in, swaped over the ez thingy for sli. turned system on, it gets to windows, then blue screen thingy. i try a few times, but system so unstable, cant get into 3dmarks. so i thought it might need a format for sli, so i start formatting and now it just wont let me finish a windows install, sometimes it gets to the windows agreement thingy then just freezes, or sometimes near the end of windows install then freezes tryed all the different slots on both sata controllers, also tried a single sata install with no luck.
tried it again with the 1 card.
tried all the final bios, but nope cant finish windows install wat eva i do
also since i put the 2nd card in there's been artifacts, to me it seems like the
2 much ram oc kind of artifacts so i used some dif ram from other system but still same thing, tried both the vid cards in non sli, but still artifacts.
so could the artifacts be related to not being able to install windows