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Crossfire Setup problems.

foxeh30

foxeh30

foxeh30

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Hi all, first post and everything..shame it has to be a problem..

Ive just bought the following hardware:

Intel E6600
ASUS P5W DH motherboard
ATi x1950 Crossfire Edition
Sapphire x1950XTX
Acer 24" LCD
Corsair TwinX 2x1GB
Enermax Liberty 600W PSU

Now I had no problems setting it up. Installed my Catalyst drivers fine aswel. I then ran 3dMark 05 to see what it could do and I was abit miffed to find 10,000 Marks in front of me. 10,000 looks like a single card score to me..

I checked CCC to make sure Crossfire was enabled as I thought it might have enabled it automatically. Problem is I havent got the Crossfire option in my CCC in either Basic or Advanced.

I have made sure that the Crossfire card is in the Prim PCI-e slot for my motherboard which is the top slot(orange one) snd the normal 1950 is in the bottom. I have the DVI connector plugged into the right socket on the back of the slave card(also tried the other one to make sure). I have tried installing the individual drivers for each card (Connect3d for the master, Sapphire for the slave), ive tried using the Cat 6.10 BETA, 6.9 and 6.4. And I still havent got a crossfire option.

Windows recognises both cards but CCC only recognises the Master Card.

Anyone had any similar problems or am I just being a nub and the problem is staring me in the face. I bought both cards from OcUK.

Any suggestions are welcomed, thank you in advance.

foxeh
 
Welcome to the forums. :)

Have you looked in the BIOS for a Crossfire option.

On my old Asus Crossfire board, theres a Dual-Slot Configuration option in the BIOS.

Btw the only drivers that work with the x1950's are the modified 6.9's, and the 6.10 betas, 6.4's are no good, only those 2x driver sets will work as there is no official drivers out for the x1950's yet, although the Official 6.10's are due any day now, and will be the first to officialy support the x1950.

Also have you tried both cards seperately to make sure they both work. :)
 
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I have tried both cards seperately yes and they both work. I have looked in the BIOS but there isnt an option to enable dual card support as fas as I can tell. :/
 
foxeh30 said:
I have the DVI connector plugged into the right socket on the back of the slave card(also tried the other one to make sure). I have tried installing the individual drivers for each card (Connect3d for the master, Sapphire for the slave), ive tried using the Cat 6.10 BETA, 6.9 and 6.4. And I still havent got a crossfire option.
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By DVI socket, do u mean your montor socket? If so, then thats what u are doing wrong. I take it you are using the crossfire cabe? Basically, connect the mastercard and slave card together using the Crossfire cable, and then plug the monitor into the crossfire cable, NOT into the back of either card. Have a read through I guide i wrote on another forum:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?threadid=181125&goto=newpost

(Looks like the site is down for a couple of hrs! LOL!)
 
I meant to say the Crossfire cable is plugged into the right DVI port on the Slave card sorry.

I have checked and rechecked that I have the cable set up properly
 
The P5W DH doesn't need any bios setting to support crossfire. Also the secondary adaptor does not show up in the CC unless there is a monitor plugged into it, however if you right click the Ati try icon it should show the secondary adaptor.

I don't know about the X1950CF but on my X1900 CF the dvi connetor worked on both DVI ports on the secondary adaptor but the monitor has to be plugged into the CF dvi connector - as mike mentioned but you did not confirm if you had it connected.
 
Check windows device manager for the 2 cards

Remove all ati drivers and reinstall, Use the 6.10 beta's they have a couple of niggles with Your mouse pointer but otherwise are not too bad

If Your asus P5W was happy with 1 card it will run with 2, double check slot and power connections
 
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