Faulty Motherboard K8N SLI or GPU's 6600Gts??? Pls Help

Dear All,
I've been running with the spec below for about a month, my SLI MSI 6600GTs ran perfectly well Half Life 2 never crashed and 3dMark 2005 gave me 6800Ultra like scores... all was good until this morning    I turned on my PC and was greeted with the message that SLI had been disabled as one of my cards had been uninstalled  .
I looked in my devices and yep there was only one 6600GT showing when there used to be two... and I just cant get it to work again
I've un-SLI'd the motherboard and tested each card individually ... all ok...
put both cards in and the system wont boot / or GPU wont show anything not sure which?
When I re-SLI the motherboard the system boots ok with both cards in but it still shows only one GPU 
I think its the Motherboard but Im open to suggestions (hence the posting    ) ..
thanks in advance

I've got the exact same issue. I had one suggestion to reset the CMOS - no dice!
I upgraded the bios, drivers etc NO DICE.
Both cards work independently of one another, they're perfect.
The board just no longer allows SLI for some reason.
And no one, not even MSI seem to know why.

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