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Just got my second card for crossfire, My first boot i could enable crossfire but i got this, using 7.4Cats :



I uninstalled the drivers and CCC, reinstalled and tried 7.3Cats, now all i get is this:



I've tried swapping the cards, and swapping the crossfire connectors..... anyone have any ideas :confused: Im getting pissed :banghead:

here's how i've got the Crossfire bridges' setup :

 
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Don't know if it will help, but you don't have the 4 pin power connector plugged into the motherboard in the last pic, unless that was just when you took the photo?
 
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Ok, flashed both cards with the ATI bios... didn't help. Installed the 4pin power connector on the mobo... didn't help..... WTF!!!!!!!

Still get the error of the connector problem..... I checked them for the 100th time and even installed them the wrong way to see if it would help.... nothing...
 
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Do you have crossfire enabled in the Bios?
 
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Doesn't have any setting for crossfire manual says you dont have to change anything. Im using the latest mobo bios (1.5).
 

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i dont think you can crossfire a Sapphire with an ATI card, can you ? dont they have to be the same brand? sorry if I am wrong.
 
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ati says there cross compatible as long as both cards are of the same variety not same manufacture ie x1950 pro only works with pro not xt
but i would guess its a blub on sapphires end for whatever reason im glad i didn't decide to go with a pci e crossfire upgrade

board to board are the layouts exactly the same ie same components with exception given to ram
 

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Tho I told you how to fix the BIOS, do you want me to do it? :p
 

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^^^ Hey Ketxx, so just flash the sapphire to a BBA X1950pro, and disable the VIVO
 

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Yup. I would mod the BIOS ofr u, but its not in my thread anymore, looks like a massive hoard of attachments got nuked as well when Zek messed up, so if you upload your BBA BIOS here I'll fix it up.
 
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I went ahead and did the mod myself Ketxx...... didn't work either :banghead:

I attached what i flashed the card to below.
 

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I wish i could have tried it on my ASUS P5WDH before i had to ship it...... funny thing is atleast it would let me enable crossfire before now nothing on Vista or XP.....
 
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You don't need to disable VIVO on one. I have one VIVO, one non-VIVO.
Make sure that you're not using the component out or something. You may have to connect the LCD with the DVI. I couldn't get it to work with my TV, so I had to buy a 37" 1080P HDTV :D
 

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Being the hell that is karma and a student, I didnt get chance to do your BIOS before my mobo took one fatal suicide static dive (how it shorted still remains a mystery) but I will do it once my new crosshair (which hopefully will be a newer revision) arrives in a few days.
 

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forget crossfire on vista !!

its not your system i have the same problems I get more performance on 1 card than 2, reason being Vista released a hotfix for ati 2nd card crossfire not working but guess what that doesnt help because right now ati SUCKS crossfire drivers are not their priority right now, getting 1 card to work in DX10 is i have tried ati support so many times i have charged back my second card and waiting on x38 and the 2950. right now on vista crossfire is SLOWER than 1 . also corruption in lost planet and world in conflict runs at the same speed as one card when i tested them . notice when you do a ticket for ati support you wont see crossfire 2900 listed, you will only see crossfire x1950 and so on because right now their so far behind in just getting dx10 working my advice is leave the second card out till the x38 mobos come and return it and get a 2950 alone or go nividia 8800 there both going to be out end of the month or november (x38) but ever since this power hungry 2900 has came about crossfire has NEVER worked , on vista that is .
 

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almost forgot even on 7.9 catlyst drivers my 3dmark06 scores show that crossfire works but only in 3dmark, did we buy another card just to see it post a higher score HELL NO. 15800 CF and 12000 or so with one. but forget about it in real games, ati optimises thier drivers for these benchmarking companies because their not sponsored, next time you play a game likie bioshock or WIC or anything lately how many times to do see that nvidia logo come up , they got the coins now, ati is struggling , so xfire is going to come last , here is my pics of the score , i ran it just to see if it was my system or ati and its definitley not my system . ati drivers suck for gaming on vista right now
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7448/3dmark06overclockd12244ec7.jpg

thats one card
this link after is dual 2900's
http://img112.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3dmark06cfoverclockpd3.jpg
 

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try catalyst 7.6's.
 
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Sorry for lending this tread but i have a broblem too with CF.One card at time work ok but when i put the second one in the screen freeze when the windows screen start to load.:banghead:Tried to uninstall ati software but did not help and i cant boot to safemode either:shadedshu.Im full of this crap and im thinkin of getting an 2900pro:rockout:, my buddy wants to buy the old one.Or can someone give me an idea what to try.:confused::confused:
 
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