ok, im not new to computers, but to crossfire i am, and im having one heck of a time getting a msi x1900xt and a msi x1900 crossfire edition to mate. well, when i first installed the cards, there was no way to get video on any of the ports, eventually after digging around on the net for a while i gathered that i had to uninstall the existing x1900xt's drivers, which i did, and i can get video, sometimes. every 2nd or 3rd restart i get no video once windows loads. unplugging the dvi-vga converter from the dongle fixes this, about 80% of the time.
then theres enabling crossfire, after 2 hours of trying to get video in general, i finnally get into CCC and im at the enable crossfire screen... ok click it and boom, it enables, but no video... so i eventually figure out that i have to hotkey around and was able to hit the Yes button with no video whatsoever. sometimes i would get lucky and my video would come up then i could hit ok. sometimes it wouldnt... so many restarts at this point.
now i get it to actually boot in crossfire mode, but i cant open CCC or i lose sync untill i unplug the monitor and plug it back in. crossfire disables itself if i do that, WTF.. so after some trial and error i find out that crissfire is enabled (i hope) so i loaded up 3dmark to compare with my single x1900xt's scores. now the fun part
proxycon worked fine, looked faster to me. but the next test, the stupid one with the wisps, i got heavy artifacting. you could see the test was running fine and fast, but there was an overlay of the test compressed horizontally by about 500% and heavy artifacting, enough to not recognize the picture.... then the first cpu test, ran fine. when it loaded the 2nd cpu test, 3dmark crashed.... wtf.
im really considering returning this crossfire card and bite the restocking fee because crossfire on my system is so f88ked up that any time i change modes, enable a 3d app, or even do something take a leak and make pizza it has screwed up (slight exaggeration)
my system: asus p5w dh deluxe 1201 bios
2gb muskin redline
x6800 C2D, clocked at 3.30 (but for settnig up crossfire i went back to stock, so clocking isnt an issue, ALL bios is at default cept boot order)
also i cant get any hotkeys for profiles to work, i managed to save a crossfire enabled profile but it seems that hotkeys just dont work... oh, and also i would get heavy artifacting in the CCC when changing modes....
and just to tihnk, i vowed never to use ati again since many ati cards would crash in searing gorge in WoW, guess i shouda listened to myself.
HELP!!!! i have to be doing something wrong, should i return, work another 12 hours on it (which ive prolly worked about 8 on it allready) or go on a rampage and bash this thing over some guys head that works at ati???
then theres enabling crossfire, after 2 hours of trying to get video in general, i finnally get into CCC and im at the enable crossfire screen... ok click it and boom, it enables, but no video... so i eventually figure out that i have to hotkey around and was able to hit the Yes button with no video whatsoever. sometimes i would get lucky and my video would come up then i could hit ok. sometimes it wouldnt... so many restarts at this point.
now i get it to actually boot in crossfire mode, but i cant open CCC or i lose sync untill i unplug the monitor and plug it back in. crossfire disables itself if i do that, WTF.. so after some trial and error i find out that crissfire is enabled (i hope) so i loaded up 3dmark to compare with my single x1900xt's scores. now the fun part
proxycon worked fine, looked faster to me. but the next test, the stupid one with the wisps, i got heavy artifacting. you could see the test was running fine and fast, but there was an overlay of the test compressed horizontally by about 500% and heavy artifacting, enough to not recognize the picture.... then the first cpu test, ran fine. when it loaded the 2nd cpu test, 3dmark crashed.... wtf.
im really considering returning this crossfire card and bite the restocking fee because crossfire on my system is so f88ked up that any time i change modes, enable a 3d app, or even do something take a leak and make pizza it has screwed up (slight exaggeration)
my system: asus p5w dh deluxe 1201 bios
2gb muskin redline
x6800 C2D, clocked at 3.30 (but for settnig up crossfire i went back to stock, so clocking isnt an issue, ALL bios is at default cept boot order)
also i cant get any hotkeys for profiles to work, i managed to save a crossfire enabled profile but it seems that hotkeys just dont work... oh, and also i would get heavy artifacting in the CCC when changing modes....
and just to tihnk, i vowed never to use ati again since many ati cards would crash in searing gorge in WoW, guess i shouda listened to myself.
HELP!!!! i have to be doing something wrong, should i return, work another 12 hours on it (which ive prolly worked about 8 on it allready) or go on a rampage and bash this thing over some guys head that works at ati???