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5870 Crossfire problem

Jediben

Jediben

Jediben

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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 got a 900w BZ series Tagan jobby from about 2 years ago. Up until last week I was running a 5870 with a 8800gtx underneath for physx and I didn't run into any problems with that. I expect that their draw is about the same, if not more :)

My girlfriend has actually got a totally identical system sitting next to me (she has the 8800gtx now!) with a 1100w Tagan so I could check them on that.

I've just finished a whole Heaven2 benchmark without faults. This is very confusing :) These are my first Ati cards (been a Green Teamer since the 5950!) so I'm not sure if there are any tricks or tips I'm missing with the Catalyst settings that are specific to Xfire.
 
Jediben said:
Hi guys,After a reset, I thought I would check another benchmark, so ran 3Dmark Vantage, which completed fine with a 20k gpu score.
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Edit. Ignore me. Re-read post

Try installing the 10.2s... see if thats ok
The install the 10.3 preview over the top. I have had problems with 10.3 WHQL!
 
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Well prior to my post I did a card reseat (stuck my old card as the primary outputter in the top PCI-E slot with the new one underneath) and I've now been able to run both Heaven 1 and 2 without a problem.

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It might just have been a connection issue or temporary fubar. I'll throw some more work at them and see what happens,!
 
ben
you have to enable xfire then reboot, then it will enable and stick
i had this issue with xfire not staying
 
I've just tried Heaven2 again with Xfire enabled but again after about 30 seconds it's frozen to a lockup. I can hear both cards spinning up so fans are working. This is very annoying
 
Hi Vapor Matt,
I have actually already set the pciE to 101 as I'd seen other people recommending it before :) It hasn't helped unfortunately. The weird bit is that 3dMark Vantage can run through perfectly well but Heaven puts it on its ass.

*THIS JUST IN!*
I just checked the card information on CCC pane and I noticed that my 'first' card is running BIOS Version 012.019.000.002
but the 'newest' card I received today is on BIOS Version 012.020.000.001

I guess this could be the problem. Anyone know if if one offers a performance advantage over the other, or which I should stick to? I can follow the flashing guides no problem :)
 
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I'm going to put the older bios onto the newest card - at least I know for sure that one works as I've been using it the last months and half without a single error :)
(although GPU-Z is telling me that both cards have the same BIOS - now I'm confused!)
 
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you seem pretty sure this is the problem and you have the solution
i sure hope you dont bork the card !!!!
 
mine crash also around that temperature... :D
ive put another case fan in which has eased the problem but i still need more case cooling
 
I just finished a run of Heaven version 1 with Crossfire on and no crashes :)
Although the result is actually worse than the single card one earlier... Hmmmm
*edit*
Blargh Heaven 2 caused another driver crash. This is depressing. Maybe I shall try 10.2s
 
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Jediben said:
I just finished a run of Heaven version 1 with Crossfire on and no crashes :)
Although the result is actually worse than the single card one earlier... Hmmmm
*edit*
Blargh Heaven 2 caused another driver crash. This is depressing. Maybe I shall try 10.2s
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put both GPU fans on manual 90% and re run a bench, i bet it doesnt crash :)

EDIT: also it looks like uve OC'd the core n mem straight away,.. imo bench @ stock and make sure thats stable first
 
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