New Sapphire's x2 and TH2GO woes

[Fizzer]

Apologies in advance if anyone reads Widescreengaming / Clunk as I have posted there.



Got my 2 new cards today...

They don't seem to like the Triplehead2go (TH2GO)

(Copied from my Widescreengaming forum post)
With them Installed + crossfire bridge on them and the TH2GO plugged in the system won't boot.

Symptoms:
No screen at all.
The Fan on the 4870 that's plugged into the TH2GO runs full speed.
Also the 3 green LED's on the 4870 circuit board got out.
The TH2GO led goes from Red to a mix of orange and green.

Now I have tried 1 card at a time and both show the same issue. Also tried in different slots.

I have a spare Powercolor 4870 512mb that I am selling, tried this and the system boots fine with the TH2GO plugged in.

Tried just with a monitor and the 2 Sapphire's and the system once again boots fine.

Looks like a conflict between the TH2GO and the Sapphire card.

I am currently scanning Google for a solution but can't seem to pin point my particular issue.

It's a normal working system until I plug the TH2GO.

But the TH2Go works fine on another card....

It's as if the Graphics card is saying 'what the hell have you plugged me into'

Soaked the 4870's using ATI tool and all is fine...

So the TH2GO is working fine with another Graphics card, the Graphics cards work fine without the TH2GO. So I haven't really got an RMA issue. Just can't get them both to work.

Any ideas, I am getting frustrated, raised a support request to Matrox, no joy yet??

 

[Dazboots]

Apologies in advance if anyone reads Widescreengaming / Clunk as I have posted there.



Got my 2 new cards today...

They don't seem to like the Triplehead2go (TH2GO)

(Copied from my Widescreengaming forum post)
With them Installed + crossfire bridge on them and the TH2GO plugged in the system won't boot.

Symptoms:
No screen at all.
The Fan on the 4870 that's plugged into the TH2GO runs full speed.
Also the 3 green LED's on the 4870 circuit board got out.
The TH2GO led goes from Red to a mix of orange and green.

Now I have tried 1 card at a time and both show the same issue. Also tried in different slots.

I have a spare Powercolor 4870 512mb that I am selling, tried this and the system boots fine with the TH2GO plugged in.

Tried just with a monitor and the 2 Sapphire's and the system once again boots fine.

Looks like a conflict between the TH2GO and the Sapphire card.

I am currently scanning Google for a solution but can't seem to pin point my particular issue.

It's a normal working system until I plug the TH2GO.

But the TH2Go works fine on another card....

It's as if the Graphics card is saying 'what the hell have you plugged me into'

Soaked the 4870's using ATI tool and all is fine...

So the TH2GO is working fine with another Graphics card, the Graphics cards work fine without the TH2GO. So I haven't really got an RMA issue. Just can't get them both to work.

Any ideas, I am getting frustrated, raised a support request to Matrox, no joy yet??

hi there i have the sapphire x 512 cards in crossfire using trippehead2go.
i have used in xp vista and windows 7 and had no porbs @ all.
im using 3x19 inch monitors. whats your native resolution on your monitors. the only thing i can think of is that the native resolution is to high on your monitors as the trippe head to go will only run good on 3840by1024 and lower. ps my cards have been flashed with asus top bios as well.
if u can download new bios flash for your matrox unit see if that helps.

 

[DeathTyrant]

Are you running 5040x1050? I'm not sure, but didn't ATI cards have an issue at that res at 57Hz?

 

[Fizzer]

Whats your native resolution on your monitors. the only thing i can think of is that the native resolution is to high on your monitors as the trippe head to go will only run good on 3840by1024 and lower.

Native they are 1280x1024, problem is it works with my OLD Powercolour 512mb. Not with the new Sapphire...

my cards have been flashed with asus top bios as well.
if u can download new bios flash for your matrox unit see if that helps.

I wonder if Flashing with the ASUS Top would help ??? Mmmm may have to look into it. Will have to see if there is one for 4870 1024mb version. Thanks for that.

Are you running 5040x1050? I'm not sure, but didn't ATI cards have an issue at that res at 57Hz?

No thats's for the newer Digital TH2GO (uses DVI), yes there are plenty of issues for the widescreen resoloutions with ATI. Mines Analogue, not running widescreen. Thanks for the suggestion though.