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Advice : MSI R9 280x Crossfire

Abitar

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Hi

I purchased 2 MSI R9 280x cards from ocuk last Friday but I'm having issues with system stability since installing them. I upgraded from 2 6850's system was stable with these installed.

I initially thought it was my psu, corsair tx750 that was a few years old so I replaced this with a corsair hx1050 but this didn't help.

The issues only happen while gaming, either game crashes (mainly crysis 3 but has happened in other games) or bsod system exception errors and 1 bad pool call that was related to my asus sound card driver.

Tried various drivers including 13.11 beta6 not tried beta7 yet.

System Asus p8p67 pro with a 2500k CPU overclocked to 4.2.

I will test the cards individually tomorrow and maybe update the mb bios.

Any ideas appreciated.
 
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Personally I would make sure your CPU is 1005 stable and then do a clean install.

The 6850's were a different architecture to the 7970's so it might that causing the problem, if you can do a fresh Windows install and it should clear everything up.
 
The CPU was 100% stable with the 6850's installed, I will prime test later to make sure its still the case.
 
Drop your CPU to stock clocks and test each card individually. Pop both cards in if there is no problem there and again, test both cards with the CPU at stock. The 280X's could be putting more starin on your CPU and having it work much harder than your 6950's and this could be the reason for system instability. You might need a touch more on voltage for the CPU or it could be a faulty GPU but always best to run stock everything to confirm.
 
Cheers great idea I will try with stock cpu settings later and see how that goes.
Seems stable gaming for about an hour then the stability issues start, then it seems to be 20 mins or so before it fails. Cpu temps are around high 60's, gpus are 77 / 61 ish so it's not like they are getting to hot.
 
So setting the cpu back to default settings has stopped the bsod.

Looks like the issue is down to vcore from looking around these are the bsod error codes I was getting.

0x1E = add more vcore.
0x3B = add more vcore.

However I have still had Crysis 3 crash a couple of times over the space of 3 hours pay time error in the event veiwer is.

Faulting module name: aticfx32.dll, version: 8.17.10.1247, time stamp: 0x526997da

Is it now a matter of finding a stable driver?

I'm going to try 13.11 betaV7 see if that helps :(
 
I now have 2 x MSI 280Xs also

Are you still hitting problems? I have been raping BF4 all day with mine at getting a solid 120fps on this nice monitor

What VCORE are you using?

I am on BETA 7
 
Installed the beta 7, flashed my mb bios to the latest revision and just played crysis 3 for an hour with no crashes at all.

Im at stock speeds and vcore at the moment, my overclock had become unstable after upgrading from 2 6850's to 2 280x's, gonna try again once everything is 100% stable. Gonna give it a few nights at stock to confirm 100%

I have bf4 on pre order so hoping everything is ok. Well chuffed with the cards crysis 3 looks amazing really impressed.

What temps you getting on the cards btw? I'm getting 77/61 max temps on my 2.
 
Tried the witcher 3 tonight and it crashed to black screen had to reset the PC, tested each card on its own with no crashes so far.

Only thing left to try is reinstall windows but I don't think that's gonna help:(

May have to Rma the cards as a last resort but really don't wanna have to do that but I'm at a loss now.
 
Seems turning off frame pacing in the CCC has fixed the crashing issues.

Not had a single crash since I turned it off around 3 hours ago that's the most stable the cards have been since I got them last Friday :)

Going to test some more games then hopefully I can put my 2500k back to 4.2.
 
Playing BF3 machine locked up with a black screen so I guess its not fixed :confused:

May have to RMA these and get a single card solution 290x or 780.
 
Download and load up GPUZ and tell me what BIOS it is saying? I had to flash my cards to get them both to work

Remind me;
Driver version
BIOS version
Overclocked and to what core speed?
 
I had similar issues with 2x 7850 in the past. Both worked fine individually and overclocked well but when running together would crash frequently at stock speeds. I tested them within another (inferior) system and they worked absolutely fine together.

In the end after trying fresh OS installs and swapping components I came to the conclusion that my mobo and these cards did not like each other, so DSR'd the cards. I have since used the same system with SLI'd 680's and even Xfired 7950's for a short period without issues. Bizarre.
 
I've got two MSI Gaming R9 280x's in my system and they've been awesome since day one.

It's a shame you're having issue though.

What vcore and clocks does Afterburner display?
 
BaDBoY_uK said:
Download and load up GPUZ and tell me what BIOS it is saying? I had to flash my cards to get them both to work

Remind me;
Driver version
BIOS version
Overclocked and to what core speed?
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Driver 13.11 BetaV8 - Always uninstall previous driver have even run clean up utilities to make sure.
BIOS Version 015.039.000.001.003331 (113-C3865000-G77) - Same version on both cards
Overclock at stock speeds no overclock 1020 / 1500
Voltage 0.850 according to afterburner
 
.Griff. said:
I've got two MSI Gaming R9 280x's in my system and they've been awesome since day one.

It's a shame you're having issue though.

What vcore and clocks does Afterburner display?
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Overclock at stock speeds no overclock 1020 / 1500
Voltage 0.850 according to afterburner
 
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Oh nice one sounds promising the bios update.

Can I still return the cards under the dsr if I flash the bios?

Tried a fresh win 7 install last night, ive even a fresh win 8.1 install pc locked up playing bf4.
 
r9 280x BSOD error 3b

I have the same issue whenever I try to install 2 R9 280x's at the same time - I got three and they're all from different companies. Whichever constellation I install them in, if I have 2, it does the BSOD with the 3b error code.
Furthermore, while I can get it mining and Open Hardware will show it's temperature, in all other aspects the MSI isn't showing or working properly - e.g. doesn't show in CCC or Hardware Monitor, but will mine properly in CGMiner.

My system:
CPU: i3-4130 - no OC.
MB: Asrock Z87 Pro4 - flashed to newest bios 1.70.
RAM: 2x2GB G.Skill Ripjaws at 1800Mhz.
OS: Windows 7 x64 Professional. Fresh and fully updated.
APPZ: Avast Antivirus, CGMiner 3.7.2 and various monitoring tools.
FURTHERMORE: One 500Gb Western blue and one ASUA DVD reader/burner.
GPU's and DRIVERS: ATI 13.11 Beta 9.5 drivers.
Onboard HD 4400 which I use for the desktop.
MSI R9 280x Gaming - got the new vBios 015.039.XXXXXXXXXXXX
ASUS DirectCU II TOP R9 280x - 015.039.XXXXXXXXXXX
GIGABYTE R9 280x Windforce OC version - think it's 015.38.XXXXXXXXXX
PSU: Toughpower XT Gold 1475w

I tried the following:
1. reinstalling cards in various constellations and slots, with driversweeper removing drivers completely and then reinstalling.
2. Flashing bios to newest version.

I was thinking about doing the following:
1. Upping vcore, even though I'm at the moment running everything at stock speeds.
2. Flashing the video cards bios, but not sure if I can find never versions or if I can use e.g. an ASUS vBios in a Gigabyte card and vice versa.
3. Trying out older drivers, if I can locate them.

Hope anyone can help...
Abitar did you nail down your issue?
 
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