Help!! Multi-GPU configuration

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#1 jim4604
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I don't know where else to go. I recently got an alienware with the geforce 9800GX2. In device manager I only see 1 shouldn't there be 2? and I dont even see a way to turn from single GPU to a Multi-GPU. WHen I first started I changed it somehow then tried to download some drivers and went back to some **** VGA standard card so I did a system recovery/restore to put it back to factory settings.

Now I only see one geforce 9800 GX@ under display drivers and I can't figure out how to do the Multi-GPU setting. Wouldn't that be better since the 9800 GX2 is dual 512 cards? If someone could give me a step by step process to turn this on I would be extremely thankful.

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#2 Xeros606
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phail. ever since i saw the title, all i had to say was phail.

(if you dont get what im saying, i mean to tell you to take this to pc hardware.)

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#3 jim4604
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*sigh* the really sad thing is I just finished taking it out of the box and hooking it up...I've already messed it up....
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#4 aveman1
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The Machine Spirits cannot help you, for you have tainted the faith with your purchase.
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#5 jim4604
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thanks for the help...now could someone try and please help me instead of being a smartass, please.
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#6 Xeros606
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change settings in the bios? im not a computer pro, but you can always call alienware. well, you can try, but alienware support pretty much went down the tubes since dell bought them.
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#7 IcyToasters
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Maybe call support, search a little bit on google/yahoo! for help,

...And maybe the 9800GX2 runs as one card? I mean, its really two cards ontop of eachother, but perhaps they run as the same card....?

I've never used two cards at once, though...