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HIS X1900 Crossfire master help needed.

Hemp Knight

Hemp Knight

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Hi all.

Yesterday I ordered a HIS X1900XT and a HIS X1900 Master card. I received them this afternoon and installed them into my P5W DH. I installed the catalyst 6.7 drivers and enabled Crossfire, all was going well until I started 3DMark2001.

Upon starting the benchmark I noticed that the screen was shaking from side to side. Thinking that it must be a driver problem I tried 3DMark03, the same thing happened. After a few more tests I realised that in any 3D app the screen would shake sideways.

So I uninstalled the 6.7s and installed the 6.5s, same thing happened. I swapped the crossfire cable with the one from my X1800XT crossfire setup it was replacing and I knew to be ok as I was using it 30mins before, still had the shaking.

Next I tried plugging the montior directly into the DVI port on the master card, success, no more shaking. Back into the crossfire cable and the shaking starts again (I always turn the PC off when messing around with cables).

I then disconnected the crossfire cable fromt he slave card and just ran the monitor from the crossfire cable connected to the crossfire port on the MC, and the shaking remained.

So, does anyone have any suggestions as to a solution, or do I just have a busted crossfire port and I need to RMA the card?

Thanks.

Edit, Sorry, forgot to post my system specs:

Conroe E6700 at 3.6GHz
Asus P5W DH at 360fsb
2x1GB G.Skill 6400NR running at 900MHz
Fortron 700W Epsilon PSU
Coolermaster stacker with crossflow fan
Coolermaster Aquagate with an extra Thermaltake 120mm rad
3x Hitachi SATAII 80GB HDD in RAID0 on the onboard Intel controller
Onboard sound
NEC DL DVDRW
Samsung 215TW 21" TFT connected via DVI
 
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Heh you've got practically exactly the same setup as me, only difference is my RAM is HZ and yours is NR. I have a feeling I'll be getting the same problem as you soon then. :(
 
LoadsaMoney said:
You upgraded from 2x x1800's to 2x x1900's erm why, surely 2x x1800's in Xfire handle everything under the sun thats thrown at them :confused:
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Your username probably explains why :D
 
Durzel said:
Your username probably explains why :D
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:D probably, but still a waste, even i wouldn't do that, 2x 1800's in Xfire would last well into next year. :p

*Awaits the, 'my monitor is shaking with 2x x1950's in Xfire' thread. :D
 
LoadsaMoney said:
You upgraded from 2x x1800's to 2x x1900's erm why,
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Why not :D . If I didn't have the means or the desire I wouldn't have done it.

Thanks Gibbo :D I've never heard of this before and I had no problems whatsoever with my X1800 setup so TBH it never occured to me that it was a known problem. Normally I'm straight onto Google when something like this happens, should've done it today as well. Looks like I'll be slapping the master card back in then :rolleyes:
 
Durzel said:
I agree though, seems strange to upgrade from X1800 Xfire to X1900, especially so late in the day.
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Not really, the X1900s have become quite a bit cheaper now and the X1800 resale price on say eBay is still quite high. The reason why I never done it before is because I left it too late and the X1800s second hand prices had come down but the X1900s were still quite expensive. Doing it now hasn't cost that much, it would've cost a less if I'd gone for the Connect3D versions but I didn't want to have to mess about and change the HSFs again.
 
Hemp Knight said:
Not really, the X1900s have become quite a bit cheaper now and the X1800 resale price on say eBay is still quite high. The reason why I never done it before is because I left it too late and the X1800s second hand prices had come down but the X1900s were still quite expensive. Doing it now hasn't cost that much, it would've cost a less if I'd gone for the Connect3D versions but I didn't want to have to mess about and change the HSFs again.
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Yeah thats true considering x1900's are going cheap.

Welcome to the forums btw. :)
 
Hi there

I remember now and I remember fixing this problem before on an LCD by manually setting up the monitor and although refresh rates don't matter on LCD's setting it to 75Hz tends to solve the issue but not always. Like I say do a search on the issue and you will find more fixes for it too.
 
Thanks again guys. I've had a look around and I've managed to solve it by using a VGA lead instead of a DVI lead. The shaking has stopped however I've noticed very faint bars rolling up the screen occasionally on dark backgrounds.

I didn't think of manually changing the settings. If my monitor is rated for 60hz at 1650x1080 what would happen if I tried to force 75hz?
 
Hemp Knight said:
Thanks again guys. I've had a look around and I've managed to solve it by using a VGA lead instead of a DVI lead. The shaking has stopped however I've noticed very faint bars rolling up the screen occasionally on dark backgrounds.

I didn't think of manually changing the settings. If my monitor is rated for 60hz at 1650x1080 what would happen if I tried to force 75hz?
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Afaik all should be fine as LCD monitors are happy running b/w 60-75hz.
 
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