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Problems enabling and disabling Crossfire?

Dan2kx

Dan2kx

Dan2kx

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When i enable crossfire the system crashes and i get a BSOD, when it comesback on it does one of three things
1)immediately does the same
2)slaps a low res on and says that there is a problem with display drivers or hardware
3)sometimes it actually works (not often)

ive spent so long trying to get this working i havent even tested it (when it does work) to see if it will play a game.

ive tried both cards on their own and they appear to both be working (bought seperately the first one definately worked)

ive also re-installed vista a numebr of times, along with CCC

somebody please help me cos its doing my head in and if i cant get it to work then ive wasted £250 and my g/f will laugh at me.

ATI are useless atm, i told them that i got it to work and then disabled it and added a second monitor, removed that enabled it again (to test for reproducability) (it crashed again) and they told me that crossfire doesnt support dual monitors; i know this and thats not what i said to them lol.

the brains are normally on this forum so please help.
 
ok so a bit more info then,

after enabling crossfire and experiencing the BSOD, it only does reoeats the crash, only way to avoid it is to go into safe mode and disable one of the craphics cards in device manager.

1)if i disable the first in the second in the list (one with no monitor attached) and restart windows comes back on and i get an ati message saying that there is a problem with the device or no driver information can be found.

looking on device manager the first card has error code 43, the second is disabled.

2)if in safe mode i disable the first card in the list, (the one with the monitor attached) and retstart, everything is fine (no crossfire tho), i have access to ccc and res is normal etc

in device manager the first card is still disabled and the second is working fine. i can enable the first card, crossfire doesnt work though, and if i restart then im back to square one.
In addition to this "ATI T200 unified AVstream driver" (found under sound, video and game controllers) quotes error code 10 - device cannot start

I have tried swapping the cards around but i get the same situation.

Please help....
 
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exactly the same HIS ATI HD 2900 XT bought about 1 month apart
the first definately works, the second seemed to work i didnt test it with a game or any thing tho
 
currently 7.7 but before i reinstalled vista (to see if that eliminated the problem) i had 7.7 and when that didnt work i tried upgrading to the beta's that were listed on the forum (8.40 maybe?) no go with that so i backtracked to 7.6 still no response, i also cleaned with drivercleaner in between.
 
do u think it is my motherboard?
it was before the new crossfire.

or just the drivers?

i just dont know what else to do.
 
i cant get it to uninstall now, it says the side by side package wont work

just looked at the event viewer and error code 33, is for this side by side application,

Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files\ATI\CIM\Bin64\Setup.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFC,processorArchitecture="amd64",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50608.0" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
 
it crashed again and now its come back on, and crossfire is enabled, no crashes.
i dont dare disable it again tho, so until there is a fix i guess im gna have to hook up my tv to my laptop or sumet??
 
if you go to device manager, under sound, video and game controllers, the ati t200 avstreamer or something is missing, but it wont install
i think that is the problem, think that is the shader drivers

ive removed the drivers and now i installed from the cd and are going up each driver revision, at 7.5 now still no luck
 
ok so installed from cd upto 7.7 and 3dmark score is

14824

so it seems to be working now

i still need to be able to swap between crossfire and dual screen mode tho but im not gna risk it for now! ill just hook my laptop up to the TV.
 
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