Hi guys,
I've just taken receipt of my 2nd Vapor-X 5870 and jumped straight in to plugging it in and powering up. First thing I did was run Heaven v2 to see how it handles it, and I was given an orange screen about 20 seconds in.
After a reset, I thought I would check another benchmark, so ran 3Dmark Vantage, which completed fine with a 20k gpu score. I then played some MW2, but about 30 mins into the gaming the PC powered off suddenly.
Figuring I ought to do a reinstall of drivers to be sure nothing untoward happened, I've still experienced the same sort of crash. Even running the Win7 performance evaluation lead to a screen that was entirely blue and a message that the driver had failed and successfully restarted.
As a final test I had Furmark running and although both cards reached 90c they didn't show any crash or artifacts, so I think both cards are working ok.
I have now isolated each card, run them under tests seperately and both are solid by themselves. My original card works perfectly in both my PCI-E slots, and the new card is also performing just as well. The problem seems to be the crossfire setup.
I'm running the 10.3 drivers, which both crossfire bridges connected. Do I need both or just 1? Anyone got any ideas?
I've just taken receipt of my 2nd Vapor-X 5870 and jumped straight in to plugging it in and powering up. First thing I did was run Heaven v2 to see how it handles it, and I was given an orange screen about 20 seconds in.
After a reset, I thought I would check another benchmark, so ran 3Dmark Vantage, which completed fine with a 20k gpu score. I then played some MW2, but about 30 mins into the gaming the PC powered off suddenly.
Figuring I ought to do a reinstall of drivers to be sure nothing untoward happened, I've still experienced the same sort of crash. Even running the Win7 performance evaluation lead to a screen that was entirely blue and a message that the driver had failed and successfully restarted.
As a final test I had Furmark running and although both cards reached 90c they didn't show any crash or artifacts, so I think both cards are working ok.
I have now isolated each card, run them under tests seperately and both are solid by themselves. My original card works perfectly in both my PCI-E slots, and the new card is also performing just as well. The problem seems to be the crossfire setup.
I'm running the 10.3 drivers, which both crossfire bridges connected. Do I need both or just 1? Anyone got any ideas?
Would suck if heat were the root of this problem - that simply because my two cards are close together they crap out. Individually they are fine, and i've alreay got every fan in the 1200 case plugged in. 
