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Message 3911 - Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | 23:53:07 UTC

Just installed these drivers on one of my machines to test. First thing to note is that it allows the BOINC manager to recognize both GPU's in a dual GPU system without a second monitor attached. Will try and see what happens when in SLI mode.

(Must appease the wife with X-mas shopping first)

Will update later.

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Message 3912 - Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | 0:58:52 UTC

Update:

SLI cannot be enabled. As well, when the Nvidia System tools are installed, BOINC Manager will only recognize one GPU not two. If anyone gets any other outcome please post. Just so every one knows the system config:

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Message 3955 - Posted: 23 Nov 2008 | 21:21:23 UTC

I had problems when I upgraded to 180.48 from 178.24 on Windows XP SP3 Media Center Edition. This is with two displays on the 8800GT GPU card.

The upgrade went OK. But after a second reboot, some time later. Windows would start to load, load about 4 of the background programs in the icon area, screens would flash some different colors, then go back to the windows background and hang, no mouse, no keyboard functions. Only the front panel power off switch would work. Had to boot into safe mode and uninstall drivers. I tried a second time installing 180.48 after that. It worked for a while, but then after another reboot today, it did same thing. I did not have problems before so I've reinstalled 178.24 and will have to run a few days to see if the problem returns or not to know if was actually the 180.48 driver or something else, but I never saw this with any previous drivers and did not add any other programs at the same time, except maybe a newer boinc version. Stay tuned I'll let you know if problem returns under older driver.

It almost seems it happens when the nvidia control panel tries to load.

I noticed they took out fan control, your stuck on automatic. I don't use it anyway, but thought I would note that. The thing I didn't like is it did not show me the fan percentage and temp. The slider was at zero. With 187.24 I can see it is running at 32% and the Temp 74F. I made sure under 180.48 fan was still turning and it was, it just the nvidia control panel had no control over it anymore (grayed out).

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Message 3965 - Posted: 23 Nov 2008 | 22:34:31 UTC

Maybe 180.60 fixes that? And isn't the fan control tied to the installation of nTune / NV utilities?

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Message 3966 - Posted: 23 Nov 2008 | 22:46:54 UTC - in response to Message 3955.

I had problems when I upgraded to 180.48 from 178.24 on Windows XP SP3 Media Center Edition. This is with two displays on the 8800GT GPU card.

I had very similar problems on 2 XP32 machines with GTX260s
One machine refused to boot, not even safe mode and required a re-install of windows :(
The 2nd machine would boot but the WUs went from 6 hours to 16 hours

Both machines are now running driver 178.28 again

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Message 3979 - Posted: 23 Nov 2008 | 23:48:17 UTC

Update:

I can see that others are having problems too. I have the 180.48 running smooth on my SLI 8800GT's with no errors or problems. My time actually went down from 11 hrs to 7.5-8 hours per unit.

However on my SLI GTX280 system the drivers were flakey. The system made monitor #3, on my second GTX280, my primary monitor and would not even recognize my first GTX280. Uninstalled and went back to 178.24.

All is well now. I wish there was a way of seeing the drivers everyone is using under their profile page. Might be an idea to add?

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Message 3992 - Posted: 24 Nov 2008 | 12:13:26 UTC - in response to Message 3979.

Does anyone know how to detect the driver version from an application?
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Message 4005 - Posted: 24 Nov 2008 | 19:30:00 UTC - in response to Message 3992.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_VideoController")

For Each objItem in colItems
Wscript.Echo "Driver Date: " & objItem.DriverDate
Wscript.Echo "Driver Version: " & objItem.DriverVersion
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Message 4029 - Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | 13:50:10 UTC

180.60 Drivers (BETA) are out ...

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Message 4086 - Posted: 29 Nov 2008 | 19:57:23 UTC - in response to Message 4029.

for what OS? I don't see them for 64bit vista

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Message 4087 - Posted: 29 Nov 2008 | 21:02:11 UTC - in response to Message 4086.


Look here

http://downloads.guru3d.com/

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