GTS250s in SLI on NF980-G65 mobo

I have installed two GTS250s on a NF980-G65 mobo. One is in PCI-e slot 1 (closest to CPU) and the other is in PCI-e slot three. I'm running:
Win 7 Pro 64-bit
MSI NF980-G65 mobo
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE CPU
8G OCZ 1600 BR RAM
For the life of me, I cannot get the second card (slot 3) to SLI. Whenever I go into the nVidia control panel and select SLI, any game I start has red bars flickering down the screen that disappear when SLI is not configured. Another thing is that the nVidia System monitor shows that all the third card's speeds have been reduced by 2/3's (hopefully I can attach a screen print of this display which also shows that the mobo's bus speed for these slots is exactly the same). This problem is the same if the boards are reversed or placed in the one and two slots (doing this causes whichever board that's in slot one to extremely overheat because of the close tolerances between the two boards).
Is there a SLI configuration that I'm missing in the BIOS? I'm running nVidia driver 197.45 so it's the most current.
Sorry, I seem to not be able to insert any picture or document here showing the screen print of the low speeds.
Is this a mobo, card manufacturer or nVidia problem?

Could be something to do with CPU Throttling and Windows Power Settings.  Check under 'Control Panel/System and Security/Power Options' and 'Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Power Options'.  Believe the theory is to set your Power settings up for "Performance".  Don't know for sure, just remember reading something about it from research I've done before.  Came across what I just mentioned from Googling "windows 7 power settings and sli".
EDIT:  OK, I found something else I was looking for.  When under 'Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Power Options' , when you select 'High Performance', continue on and click on "Change plan setting", then on next window click on "Change advanced power settings".  Check there for any SLI settings and in particular for 'PCI Express/Link State Power Management', select "Off".  Under "Processor power management", set the 3 settings shown under it for 100%, Active, and 100% respectively.  You'll find that under CP/S&S/PO, the same setting.  Go ahead and be redundant and check to see the settings you changed under Hardware and Sound show there as well.

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