A8R32-MVP what is it

Originally Posted by fizzy
Well, I had board that produced the whiney/screech noise so I decided to RMA it. A week or so later, and I have my new replacement. Had to flash the bios to 311 (done straight away), rebiult with win xp64 from scratch. All running fine.

I have however noticed something odd. I'm often getting what appears to be some sort of interference on screen. Most noticable on large sections of plain white colour - looks almost like a horizontal ripple/stripe effect? Seems to tie in with either high cpu or hdd usage (not sure exactly which yet) - which coincidentaly was about the same times I was getting the noise on the other board...?

I'm using a crossfire setup (HIS X1900XT Crossfire card, HIS X1900XT "slave") using the link cable out the back, and a 21" crt connected via a dvi to vga adapter.

Anybody else experience this? I switched crossfire mode off thinking it was that, but still there. May try using the DVI port on the card rather than the crossfire cable and see if that makes any difference.....
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ozscot said:
I submitted a ticket with ATI about this and the reply I got was " We have recently recreated and confirmed this issue. It happens primarily with X1800 and X1900 cards in Crossfire setups using certain motherboards.

We are currently working on a fix for this issue and any updates will be posted on our website soon."
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Has there been any update on this at all? I've updated to the 0404 bios hoping it was a timing issue or something - but it still does it. Switched off all PCIE, Chipset etc overvolt options in case it was due to that - no effect.

Seems to be CPU related, as when I kick off a couple of copies of prime95, in "torture test, in-place large FFT's" mode its really bad... :(

Starting to get a bit fed up now. On fast moving games like NFSU-Most Wanted, Quake 4 etc its not that noticable - but on games like Oblivion its really obvious. Considering the amount of cash I've forked out so far for this system, its proving a bit of a let down.. :(

I've returned the board once as mentioned above... does it look like I'll need to do this again to get a board that doesn't have this "little problem"??
 
fizzy said:
Has there been any update on this at all? I've updated to the 0404 bios hoping it was a timing issue or something - but it still does it. Switched off all PCIE, Chipset etc overvolt options in case it was due to that - no effect.

Seems to be CPU related, as when I kick off a couple of copies of prime95, in "torture test, in-place large FFT's" mode its really bad... :(

Starting to get a bit fed up now. On fast moving games like NFSU-Most Wanted, Quake 4 etc its not that noticable - but on games like Oblivion its really obvious. Considering the amount of cash I've forked out so far for this system, its proving a bit of a let down.. :(

I've returned the board once as mentioned above... does it look like I'll need to do this again to get a board that doesn't have this "little problem"??
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As far as I know there is still no resolve for this problem. At the moment I`am running just the one video card until there is a fix.I would suggest you submit a ticket with ATI in the hope that the more people that report the issue, the quicker the fix.
 
I'm getting this ^^^^ problem too!

In fact i just got it again while playin Sniper Elite a minute ago. I was thinking its a hdd issue and maybe CPU problem (FX55).

I thought my hardware was borked, so i'm relieved i'm not the only one! I hope they fix this soon, as i've not been able to enjoy this Xfire malarky yet. Am thinking its a waste of money so far.

I cant play for more than half an hour, before my system crashes. My GPU temps are ok, 65c under load, and my CPU is watercooled.

When it crashes though, my screen goes black, my hdds, or possibly cdrom drives go crazy for a bit, then i have to power off my system from the PSU to get it to reboot again.

Happens of any game i play.

Using 6.3 Cats BTW.
 
Sydk said:
Is this a problem with ATI or the motherboard manufacturer, ASUS?

Who should i report it too?
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Well, I've raised a ticket with both Asus and Ati - I've already had to return a board back, so don't want to have to do it again. Hopeing there is a fix for this via bios/driver update, but as its not effecting everybody I'm starting to think its a dodgy board again... :(

Guess I'll see what either party make of the calls I've raised with them. :D
 
There are so many issues with Crossfire at the moment that its becoming a joke.


Screen shakes in DVI, rolling lines in VGA

Blue screens and lockups relating to ATI driver instabilities

I was thinking of changing the PSU, but a Seasonic S12 should be more than capable of running , im sure Raja will confirm this

I am seriously regretting buying Crossfire, and as an ATI user for many years , this has really put me off ATI.

These symptoms are getting well documented on various forums, so your not alone with these issues.

Dont get me wrong, the technology is good, and works fine for benchmarking, but its just to unstable for gaming which is what the majority of us really want Crossfire for.

Im going to see how the next Catalyst revision works out before ditching Crossfire, but im so tempted to just ditch it now :(
 
Coolasmoo said:
There are so many issues with Crossfire at the moment that its becoming a joke.


Screen shakes in DVI, rolling lines in VGA

Blue screens and lockups relating to ATI driver instabilities

I was thinking of changing the PSU, but a Seasonic S12 should be more than capable of running , im sure Raja will confirm this

I am seriously regretting buying Crossfire, and as an ATI user for many years , this has really put me off ATI.

These symptoms are getting well documented on various forums, so your not alone with these issues.

Dont get me wrong, the technology is good, and works fine for benchmarking, but its just to unstable for gaming which is what the majority of us really want Crossfire for.

Im going to see how the next Catalyst revision works out before ditching Crossfire, but im so tempted to just ditch it now :(
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Hi , if you just install the drivers without ccc is there any way of activating x fire
 
Hi,

I don't think you can enable Crossfire without CCC.

I have not had any major issues with my Crossfire setup, though I must confess as speed decrease in some games with Cat 6.4.

Other than that most of the games I use with Crossfire seem to work fine.

Raja
 
raja said:
that issue is well known on most ATI related forums, the finger has been pointed at ATI Catalyst 6.3 and Catalyst 6.4 (AFAIK).
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I'll need to do some more searching I think. May try using the Cat 6.2 drivers instead and see if the problems there then....
 
BTW, I've had no BSOD's since using the DFI board either. I used to get BSOD's with the Asus until I figured out how much overclocking each game allowed. The most sensitive was Oblivion, which would require me to reduce the cpu speed to 2.53 ghz, in order to become stable.

Since finding this out, I only accept an overclock as stable, if it is able to run the S&M stress test without failing even under 100% load, even if you are stable on other stress tests, 2 minutes and most 'stable' systems usually throw their toys out of the pram.

Give it a shot if you are overclocking and getting lock ups or bsod's in games, if you can't get through the test, you're overclocking too far.

Some games have known problems anyway, but using the above method, I've usually been able to nail down the blame.
 
raja said:
Since finding this out, I only accept an overclock as stable, if it is able to run the S&M stress test without failing even under 100% load, even if you are stable on other stress tests, 2 minutes and most 'stable' systems usually throw their toys out of the pram.

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Sorry if this has been mentioned in any other threads,

What is this stress test and have you got a linky

Im Prime and Super PI stable with my overclock, but im willing to give something else a try
 
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