Enable SLI mode on K8N SLI Platinum

Hello, I got an older AMD64 3500+ CPU on a MSI K8N Platinum SLI motherboard, model 7100 (with a flip-board SLI switch), 2x512Mb DDR400 Corsair XMS512C2 memory, a Soundblaster Live! 4.1 soundcard on a PCI slot and two GeForce 7950 GT 512Mb DDR3 PCI-E cards. Power is supplied by a Corsair HX620 620W with separate power cables to each card. No signs of instability on the system whatsoever (no overclocking applied). Built-in sound card, Firewire, RAID and other integrated peripherals disabled in BIOS.
I recently got the second GFX card from a friend, and they are likely not from the same manufacturer. I have installed both cards, flipped the SLI board to "SLI mode", installed the SLI bridge that came with the motherboard, yet I can't get SLI to fire up. Both cards have exactly the same BIOS revision and exactly the same clock speed (core and memory) when checked with the ESA tools from Nvidia.
I have reinstalled the newest Nforce4 and Geforce drivers, but to no avail. Both cards are installed and enabled in Windows XP (32bit SP3), but I don't get any options for SLI in the control panel, and I don't see any performance difference in-game. I have looked in the BIOS for SLI-enable-settings but found none.
Is there anything else I can do to enable SLI mode for the system? Or are the cards simply incompatible? Reflashing with some stock BIOS on both cards, can that make them compatible? Or is maybe the SLI bridge not seated properly? What exactly ARE the requirements for two cards to match, anyway?
Further, does anyone know the real-world implications of disabled PCI prefetch, as this was disabled in the last update for the motherboard? I use a PCI soundcard, and have some performance issues in games that seems to be somewhat correlated to sounds being played.
Best regards, Martin "xarragon" Persson

Quote from: Svet on 12-August-09, 20:23:52
which one? http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=searchresult&keywords=NX7950GT
Min seems to be the "MSI NX7950GT - VT2D512EZ - HD", latter one with VIVO support. It does have passive cooling using heatpipes, and a sticker on it says what I put in double quotes above. That would be this card:
http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=130&prod_no=1045
The sticker/model name for the ASUS card says:
ASUS P455 REV: 1.00
EN7950GT/HTDP/512M/A
I suppose it ought to be this card? http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=5XmjRmrwz3r9rWuv
I have also used GPU-Z to pull the following info from the ards, when they were connected one-by-one to the primary PCI-E 16X slot with the SLI bridge set to "non-SLI" mode.
GPU-Z: MSI BX7950GT-VT2D512EZ-HD:
GPU: G71 Revision: A2
Device ID: 10DE-0295
BIOS Version: 5.71.22.42.06
Subvendor: MSI (1462)
ROPs: 16
Bus interface: PCI-E x16 @ x16
Shaders: 24 Pixel / 8 vertex
DirectX support: 9.0c / SM3.0
Pixel fillrate: 8.8 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate: 13.2 GTexel/s
Memory type:  GDDR3
Bus width: 256 Bit
Bandwidth: 44.8 GB/s
Memory size: 512 Mb
GPU Clock: 550 MHz
Memory: 700 MHz
GPU-Z: For ASUS P445
GPU: G71 Revision: A2
Device ID: 10DE-0295
BIOS Version: 5.71.22.42.06
Subvendor: ASUS (1043)
ROPs: 16
Bus interface: PCI-E x16 @ x16
Shaders: 24 Pixel / 8 vertex
DirectX support: 9.0c / SM3.0
Pixel fillrate: 8.8 GPixel/s
Texture fillrate: 13.2 GTexel/s
Memory type:  GDDR3
Bus width: 256 Bit
Bandwidth: 44.8 GB/s
Memory size: 512 Mb
GPU Clock: 550 MHz
Memory: 700 MHz
Both cards work fine, with the MSI card being slightly hotter due to the passive cooling. The ASUS one got an aftermarket Zalman VGA cooler mounted.

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