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Help setting up crossfire please!

Haggisman

Haggisman

Haggisman

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Hi,

I just got my 2nd x1800XT, so now running a Crossfire Edition and a standard card, i plugged it in, connected the crossfire cable on the back, enabled it in the BIOS etc, but I dont have the option to enable crossfire in my catalyst control centre.
The card shows up in device manager, and shows up as a device i can extend my monitor onto if i right-click the ATI task bar icon, but the option for crossfire just isnt there.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? and how can i fix it.

Many thanks.
 
its the sapphire crossfire pure advantage, with the latest bios, and yeah, i uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers a couple of times, i just noticed that in the control centre, on the graphics adapter drop down box, i can only choose the crossfire edition, and not the standard card, sounds like catalyst control centre isnt seeing the card?
 
Sure you got the cards plugged in the right way around? Regular card goes in the pci-e slot nearest the cpu, master card goes in slot farthest from the cpu.

Might want to check in the bios crossfire is enabled as well.
 
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Gerard said:
Sure you got the cards plugged in the right way around? Regular card goes in the pci-e slot nearest the cpu, master card goes in slot farthest from the cpu.
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hmm, you sure about that? there are stickers on the mobo saying master and slave card, and it's the other way round.
 
Haggisman said:
hmm, you sure about that? there are stickers on the mobo saying master and slave card, and it's the other way round.
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According to hardocp and other sites thats the way of it.
 
Checked the stickers on motherboard, the manual that came with it, and the manual on sapphire website, master slot is definately the one nearest cpu
 
Haggisman said:
Checked the stickers on motherboard, the manual that came with it, and the manual on sapphire website, master slot is definately the one nearest cpu
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Well, can't hurt to give it a try anyway. :o
 
yeah, except it involves draining and re-piping my cooling system again *cry*

ah well, I'll give it a go tomorrow - fingers crossed
 
Quote from hardocp about this

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODE1LDI=

The next configuration difference you need to be aware of is how the two PCI-Express (PCI-E) slots are laid out. The primary PCI-E slot is actually the one farthest from the CPU, nearest the PCI slots. The PCI-E slot nearest the CPU is actually the secondary PCI-E slot. What this means is that you must plug the slave video card, i.e. your initial Radeon X800 or X850 series video card into the secondary slave PCI-E slot, which is nearest the CPU. The primary CrossFire master card needs to be plugged into the primary PCI-E slot farthest from the CPU. If you have the video cards in the wrong slots, you will not be able to enable CrossFire. We found this out the hard way.
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Same thing for x1800's, can only assume that the mo-board manufacturer messed up in the manual or something. :confused:
 
Ok well i've tried the cards both ways round - no luck either way, I've noticed I'm getting the problem in device manager - "This device cannot start(code 10)" on whichever card is in the 2nd slot (the one furthest from the CPU - labled slave) tried reinstalling several times, but still nothing
 
Yeah i was thinking that - dodgy PCI-E slot.

gonna give OCuk a ring after work tomorrow, see what they say, if i can return the board etc...

I still have till friday to return the 2nd card under distance selling regulations, If i cant get it working by then, I might just return it, and auction the master card and buy myself a x1900XTX instead.
 
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