Strange Xfire Issue

[dholdi]

I have noticed recently that my slave xfire card jumps up to full speed core and memory clocks for no apparent reason.
There isn't any gpu load yet the card sits there at full speed getting hot for no reason that I can see.
The master just sits there at idle speed and temperature.
The only way I can get it back to idle is to reboot.
Any ideas appreciated.
They are Sapphire 290x vapor cards.

 

[dholdi]

Bump

 

[Confused Stu]

I'm sure I've heard previously the occasional person having that issue with GPUz running, or the AMD Gaming App running. I used to have my second GPU run at 100% solid in any game with ULPS enabled (it worked fine and idled OK, just ULPS was messing with the readings under load). I would try disabling ULPS (either through Afterburner or registry) and see if that helps at all.

What drivers are you running? The Omega ones or an older set? If older, might be worth running DDU and then installing the Omega drivers.

 

[almighty15]

Do you use Google Chrome?

There's your problem.

 

[LtMatt]

I have noticed recently that my slave xfire card jumps up to full speed core and memory clocks for no apparent reason.
There isn't any gpu load yet the card sits there at full speed getting hot for no reason that I can see.
The master just sits there at idle speed and temperature.
The only way IOI can get it back to idle is to reboot.
Any ideas appreciated.
They are Sapphire 290x vapor cards.

Which drivers are you using? A bug with ULPS was fixed in recent drivers.

 

[dholdi]

I'm sure I've heard previously the occasional person having that issue with GPUz running, or the AMD Gaming App running. I used to have my second GPU run at 100% solid in any game with ULPS enabled (it worked fine and idled OK, just ULPS was messing with the readings under load). I would try disabling ULPS (either through Afterburner or registry) and see if that helps at all.

What drivers are you running? The Omega ones or an older set? If older, might be worth running DDU and then installing the Omega drivers.

Both of those apps have been running so I will try disabling them.

Do you use Google Chrome?

There's your problem.

No I don't, why did you assume I did and that was the problem ?

Which drivers are you using? A bug with ULPS was fixed in recent drivers.

Hi Matt & Stu as you both asked, I am using the Omega drivers.

Its weird, it only ever seems to happen when I leave the pc on doing nothing, when I come back to it card 2 is at full wack.

I think I will try swapping the cards about to see if its specific to the card or if it is something that is effecting the slave card only.

Thanks for your help.

 

[LtMatt]

Disabling ULPS should fix it, however it does sound like some other software could be causing it.

 

[dholdi]

Ooops sorry, I should have said earlier that ULPS is disabled via afterburner.

 

[LtMatt]

Ooops sorry, I should have said earlier that ULPS is disabled via afterburner.

Does this occur after waking the pc from sleep?

 

[shadychopper]

Hmm, I get the same problem now and again and it's not from waking from sleep. I have saphire vapor x r9 290 as my master and gigabyte windforce as slave card. OMega drivers installed, ULPS not disabled but when I did disable it there was no difference. Also noticed while playing diablo 3 2nd gpu will hit full clocks but no load on it.Only way to get clocks down apart from re-boot is to turn v-sync on and off. I think it's a driver issue.
Don't know If it's the same with other games, diablo is the only one without x-fire running.

 

[dholdi]

Does this occur after waking the pc from sleep?

Hi Matt,

I don't think so as I have the Samsung High Performance power plan set.

This turns the monitor off after 15 mins but never goes to sleep.

It does occur after I have left the pc idle for a long time, overnight for example.

 

[LtMatt]

Hi Matt,

I don't think so as I have the Samsung High Performance power plan set.

This turns the monitor off after 15 mins but never goes to sleep.

It does occur after I have left the pc idle for a long time, overnight for example.

Could you try disabling monitor sleep temporarily to see if it still occurs.

 

[dholdi]

Yes will do, will let you know, thanks once again.

 

[dholdi]

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, it appears to be the monitor going to sleep that is causing it. Even though I was turning the monitor off disabling the sleep seems to have cured it.