MSI P7N Platinum and 8800GT of 8800GTS in SLI with everest is FREEZE

Hello,
I want to warn users of the msi p7n platinum with the 750i chipset who use everest 4.50.1372 and a 8800GT or 8800GTS 512 mb (with a G92 CPU) in SLI that they can get freez problems.
I got a extra 8800GT card and go SLI but the computer got random freezes after that.
My system:
Windows xp sp2 with an Q6600 2GB pc-6400 ram, 4 hd's (2 ide, 2 sata), dvd-writer and a dvd-rom. Latest 1.2 bios.
It was very frustrated and also mailing msi support in The Netherlands didn't help (they thought it was a problem with the powersupply). The computer just got frozen with the last picture on screen and didn't respond at all (not a single error msg). Sometimes in minutes and other times in hours. Only option after that was a hard reset.
To make a very long story short (i tried every beta bios out there with every bios setting) . I sold one of the 8800GT's and bought a SLI set with 8800GTS 512mb in the hope the problem was with the different brands of cards (EVGA and TWINTECH with the 8800GT's). But the problem was even worse with the 8800GTS 512mb G92 (from Point of View). So i take a look at the software and found out that the problem was with the everest monitor software that displays all kinds of info on my G15 keyboard. After i disabled everest i had not a single lockup anymore.
Also the latest beta of everest that i downloaded yesterday gave the same problems!
Everest was in fact the last program i disabled cause i used that to see what the temperatures of the CPU and GPU where at the moment the computer didn't respond 
Mabye more ppl have this problem and are using everest and i hope that they find this thread Dunno if the problem is also with other brands and chipsets (like the 780i or 790i)

luckyjan, thank you for your feedback on this.  Interesting find. 

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