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Got the Striker Extreme mobo. Got everything hooked up. System is up and running almost 100%. I'm not totally certain that Windows has figured out the SLI thing yet. It popped up something saying "Click here to enable SLI mode", but didn't appear to do anything when clicked. The regular location...

Yes, but now I'm running an ASUS Striker Extreme! And it installed my RAID super easy. The other board was kicking my butt and it was getting really frustrating. The Striker Extreme has a few better things going for it over the other board: 1. Dual 16x PCIe slots, not (1) 16x, (1) 8x 2...

Thanks for the suggestions. I've read a mess of reviews, and I'm certainly pleased with the features on the P5N32-E. Similar to that is the ASUS Striker Extreme. I'll go with that one if they carry it at my local really good hole-in-the-wall parts store. If not, I'll get it shipped from...

I'm going with either a ASUS Striker Extreme or P5N32-E to replace that board. Since I've already RMA'd it, I'm going ahead with replacement. The two new boards have x16 for both video card slots, and have another x8 slot for physics processor! I'll check with my local really good...

Ok, I'm working on my big bad new system. I've got all the parts, but while reading online trying to solve a RAID driver issue so I can get Windows installed, I run across something that states "Despite all appearances, this mobo does not support SLI." (Board in question is Abit AW9D-Max) I've...

Ok... I'm pretty good with computers, but I'm not all that good. And I still have an issue with a buggy RAID driver on this mobo anyway. I have the SLI bridge connector. It came with the mobo. But the mobo won't pass the information across the PCIe bus. It only supports ATI Crossfire...

Bad news for me... I'll be waiting a while to get this thing working. Looks like I just hit a wall with the motherboard. I'm stuffing it back in the box. Hopefully I can RMA the sucker and get some $ back. From ViperLair: V I P E R L A I R .com - Abit AW9D-MAX motherboard, Page 1/4 "Despite...

Looks like I just hit a wall with the mobo. I'm stuffing it back in the box. Hopefully I can RMA the sucker and get some $ back. From ViperLair: V I P E R L A I R .com - Abit AW9D-MAX motherboard, Page 1/4 "Despite appearances, SLI is not supported." DOH! :eek: WTF?!?!?!

Looks like I just hit a wall with this card. I'm stuffing it back in the box. Hopefully I can RMA the sucker and get some $ back. From ViperLair: V I P E R L A I R .com - Abit AW9D-MAX motherboard, Page 1/4 "Despite appearances, SLI is not supported." DOH! :eek: WTF?!?!?!

I had been saving up for a while. Once I sold my scooter ($1600 cash), I had enough money to go for it. I figured "Go big or why bother"? Can't wait to get the 30" Dell screen up and running every game I can get my hands on.

Try a tiny bit of the vaseline on a small piece of the scratch. Dab a tiny bit on with a Q-tip. If it doesn't work, or you don't like the results, I'm pretty sure you will be able to remove it with screen cleaner. Or better yet, go dab a little vaseline on somebody else's smaller monitor.

Schweet! :D Now I just need to solve that RAID driver issue and I can get this sucker running.

So the manuals that come with these expensive cards leave a bit to be desired. They don't mention a thing about setting them up in SLI mode. I've been talking it over with a buddy of mine that knows more about setting up hardware, and another friend of his where he works. I'll admit... I'm a...

I've had to flash my BIOS with an update. I kept getting a postcode 2A and it would hang on boot. Finally got that going. A buddy of mine really helped out. He also assisted with locating where to enable SATA RAID 5, after figuring out how to disable IDE RAID (why it's enabled I have no...

Will see about some pics soon. I'm due to take photos of the progress tonight anyway. Not a lot to look at yet though. The case is a bit of a mess, and all shot with flat black paint. I'm currently working on getting the bad sucker to boot up. I'm working on getting my USB keychain drive to be...