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GHoosdum
29 Jul 2006, 8:51pm
Messge from Sledge:
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Thanks to a few dedicated Short-Media members we have been able to come up with a fix to bypass this annoying issue caused by Nvidia's new drivers.

GHoosdum (http://www.short-media.com/forum/member.php?u=118) has provided the folling fix for this ballon issue on system startup.

1. Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\MediaCenterTray] in the registry
2. Look for DWORD NvCplDisableBalloonNotifications - if it is not there, add it, and set it to 1.

Bubble is gone!

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Thanks to member wantmoore (http://www.short-media.com/forum/member.php?u=27628), those of you uncomfortable with (or clueless about) editing your registry, I’m providing the registry key here (http://www.wantmoore.com/dropbox/nVidia_SLI_error_fix.zip) so that all you have to do it download the zip file, extract the .reg file, double-click the nVidia_SLI_error_fix, click yes, and then click OK.



Original question:
I have a single GPU in an SLI capable system on my wife's new PC. By the motherboard's settings, it is set to single GPU mode. Every time I boot into Windows, the nVidia CP icon in the taskbar pops up a message balloon that says "SLI mode not enabled, click this message for more information" or something like that. Will this show up every time? I could not find a way to disable it in the nVidia CP. I'm not buying a second video card just to make the message stop!
RWB
29 Jul 2006, 9:08pm
Same here...

I googled for an answer, but the only answer I found was to kill windows ability to display baloons.
WuGgaRoO
29 Jul 2006, 9:34pm
uninstall nvidia CP :) i mean how much tweaking do you plan on doing and how many of their features are u really gonna utilize?
GHoosdum
30 Jul 2006, 8:45pm
I found the solution.

1. Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\MediaCenterTray] in the registry
2. Look for DWORD NvCplDisableBalloonNotifications - if it is not there, add it, and set it to 1.

Bubble is gone.
zero.counter
31 Jul 2006, 12:24am
I found the solution.

1. Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\MediaCenterTray] in the registry
2. Look for DWORD NvCplDisableBalloonNotifications - if it is not there, add it, and set it to 1.

Bubble is gone.
I had the annoyance, ignored it, searched for new topics just now, and you have magically solved it. Talk about wishful thinking!

Thanks
GHoosdum
31 Jul 2006, 12:50am
No problem!
Sledgehammer70
1 Aug 2006, 4:29pm
It's a bug in the new drivers... Nvidia says it will be fixed sooner than later :)
wantmoore
2 Aug 2006, 1:46pm
I found the solution.

1. Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\MediaCenterTray] in the registry
2. Look for DWORD NvCplDisableBalloonNotifications - if it is not there, add it, and set it to 1.

Bubble is gone.

Thanks for this. That had been driving me out of my mind. I posted a quick blurb about it on my blog as well as created a .reg file for those uncomfortable with manually editing the registry. The post and the file can be accessed at here (http://wantmoore.com/archives/2006/08/02/disable-nvidia-sli-mode-balloon-error/).

Hope that's helpful to someone.
GHoosdum
2 Aug 2006, 1:48pm
I was considering making a reg file as well, but I'm too lazy. Thanks for picking up the slack.
wantmoore
2 Aug 2006, 1:50pm
No problem! I'm usually the lazy one, so it's about time I picked up some slack somewhere...
WuGgaRoO
10 Aug 2006, 11:38pm
this shoulld be stickied..like a post it
tmh88
10 Aug 2006, 11:46pm
i dont have sli :(