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@Boomer: Thank you very much for your detailed answer. I guess I will have to process that for a while because that whole process certainly exceeds what I have done on such low machine levels so far. Oh and thanks for that link on the supermicro site. When I tried last both on the .com and .nl sites the links to the individual board either didn't show up or redirected to one of the entry pages. Now I just have to keep wondering why supermicro doesn't get those two boards SLI licensed in the first place.

@Boomer: First of all thanks again for providing those upgraded BIOS versions. They certainly worked well for me. However, I'm now in the process of trying to acquire the knowledge to do stuff like that myself and I seem to run into a brick wall on pretty early steps and my google-fu seems weak there Could you give me directions on how you actually do your BIOS modification for SLI support? I came across various sites / forums that talk about BIOS modification but so far I haven't found anything that explains how SLI support (or Crossfire) can be modified into an existing BIOS of a board that is technically capable of running SLI (like the X9DRG-QF and possibly it's successor X10DRG-Q *which shows up on the Supermicro site for the barebone SYS-7048GR-TR but so far not as separately available board). It's rather obvious that'd need an editor program like the MMTool and/or others plus the necessary files to be injected into the existing BIOS. But which tool (+version) would I need exactly? How, where would I get the file(s)/information that has/have to be inserted?

I'll also go with "custom build" .Although even with custom builds I have a tendency of preferring certain brands for components ... like ASUS main board, INTEL CPUs, Nvidia GPU (primarily due to CUDA)

No problem ... As you can see I haven't been around for a while myself. Thanks for clearing that up. As follow up: Do you intend to do a similar fix for the current F3_903 revision of the BIOS for that board? [edit] ~hmm~ Seems like my Cache-settings sucked ... I could have sworn that yesterday the posting on page 1 didn't include the download link for the F3 version ...

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