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XFX Geforce 9800GTX+ x2 in SLI, working 2 screens?

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Well, the topic doesn't say much but I'll try to explain it as thoroughly as I can. First off this is what I'm using:

2 x XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+
XFX 790i Ultra SLI motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo 3,33ghz
Corsair TWIN3X 1333MHz DDR3, 4GB
Corsair Powersupply 1000W

Windows Vista SP1 Ultimate x64

Everything on my computer is Working perfectly fine BUT I have allways been using the TV out mode and now when I upgraded my computer I noticed these could give me HDTV out, I am using a HDMI cable and the screen is perfectly fine aswell, the problem is that I want to use both my computer screen and my TV at the same time, like I did before this upgrade.

I was using clone screen from computer to the TV and it has allways worked perfectly fine, but now with these new graphiccards I don't even have an option to have 2 screens at the same time eventhough I'm using 2 graphic cards and I have 4 DVI outputs...

When I'm in NVidias Controllpanel I go to the "Set up multiple displays" in the displays tab and there I can only find a three way step by step thing to set it up. The problem here is that there is only one option and that is:

"Choose the nView display mode to use."
"Only use one display (Single)"

this really pisses me off...

Below there is step 2 which allows me to choose which screen I want to use and I can only choose one and In that scrollbar I can find both my Sony SDM-S95DR/FR (which is my computer screen) and my Philips 1080p TV.

So with that I figure the computer knows I have them both correctly plugged in but it doesn't support more then one screen? seem very off for me, but what do I know, maybe I need a third program just to deal with this.
Or maybe Nvidias drivers just doesn't support more then one screen while using SLI, I don't know, just want a quick answer to this.

Anyways, Thanks in advance! //Richard.

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Drivers don't support 2 monitors in SLI, have to disable SLI to have multi monitor support.

Until...new drivers in September sometime are rumored to enable multiple monitor support while in SLI.

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Oh, thank you very much! I'll keep a look out for that driver :)

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