For a while now, the nVidia Control Panel on my WinXP machine at work has been causing me some grief. You see, everytime morning when I log in, I’m greeted with a lovely error message in true Windows XP balloon tooltip fashion about SLI being disabled and “click here for more information” which does nothing but take me to nVidia’s SLIzone.com. It really truly is painfully annoying, and it makes perfect sense – OF COURSE SLI is disabled on my AGP system. Doh! Idiots.
Well, I finally woke up my Googling fingers this morning and found the SLI balloon notification fix:
- Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\MediaCenterTray] in the registry
- Look for DWORD NvCplDisableBalloonNotifications – if it is not there, add it, and set it to 1.
Bubble is gone.
For those of you uncomfortable with (or clueless about) editing your registry, I’m providing the registry key here 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.
Thanks to GHoosdum from the forum for the fix. According to a later post, it will be fixed in later nVidia driver releases, but it’s not fixed in ForceWare version 91.31 for my GeForce 6200.
To the aforementioned who are uncomfortable about editing the registry. Don’t download registry keys from people you don’t trust — that’s even worse.
Of course, Justin is a good guy; you can trust him.
Good point! If anyone feels the need to double-check my integrity, please,open the extracted .reg file and look at it – you’ll see that all that is being added is the DWORD value mentioned above.
Thanks for the tip though.
Thanks for this fix, my last effort was to rename NvCpl.dll, this works pretty well compared
Thanks – good work, it worked for me too. Agree taking you to the SLIzone is pretty silly.
Your regit trick for eliminating NVIDIA’s “SLI disabled” balloon worked brilliantly. Amazing how much nit-wit advice you can find out there especially from NVIDIA. Thanks much.
Doug – I was under the impression that this was fixed many driver updates ago. But maybe not…
Thank you! That was very annoying balloon indeed.
It works! Thanks for this fix!
Thanks, it works.