PCI EXPRESS 2 - 8 pin adaptor?

[nullpointerus]

I am having the same driver experience as the 8.38 RC7 that I was testing earlier. I think part of my CCC problems is that my .NET installation seems to be FUBAR'd. Paint.NET's installer also crashed.

How did this happen on a clean installation (a few hours old)? I had my RAM forced to 400 MHz (stock), but apparently, my board has a problem with 4 DIMM's and PC3200. Now that I've scaled it back to 333 MHz, the random CCC crashes seem to have disappeared.

Looks like I'll be doing a complete reinstallation of Vista. Microsoft did something incredibly stupid; they borked (on Vista) their .NET repair option for earlier OS's. Now I must reinstall the entire operating system again. Looks like today will involve swapping SATA cables booting the DVD into repair mode...not the most relaxing option for Sunday.

:|

With some luck, I'll probably be posting tomorrow to confirm that this fixed my CCC problems.

UPDATE:

Another message from HIS support:

Dear Sir,

We are regret to inform you that such adapter cable is not yet available at
the present moment.

Thanks.

Best regards,


HIS Support

 

[tuteja1986]

IMPORTANT FOR ALL XP USERS !!
Remember guys install .net 1st and make sure its installed properly before you trying the CCC otherwise you would need to do clean widows install.

I have seen this problem alot !! it screws up everything if .net isn't properly installed.

 

[nullpointerus]

I reinstalled Vista x64 and verified that everything .NET related was working fine.

My current issues with Catalyst 7.5:

- 3D settings reset whenever the computer is locked (i.e. WIN+L).
- AVIVO Quality settings other than Bob introduce extreme motion blur and artifacting.
- Temporal AA is bugged and will cause polygon edges to appear between textures.

IOW, this fixed NOTHING ATI RELATED--many, many hours wasted on this. :thumbsdown:

EDIT: Reported the first two issues to ATI since they're easily reproduceable.

 

[VERTIGGO]

If anyone is still talking about the 8 pin connector, I successfully modded my setup. I just made a 2 pin plug out of an old 6 pin that fits into the extr holes, and wired both of them to the ground pins in a molex plug. In XP she happily overclocks to 848/900 with ATI overdrive, though I'm not getting aggressive until I have a better utility to work with. Vista didn't like overclocking, however, at least in COH which I've been benching.

 

[ROEHUNTER]

Ahh man , now I am going to have to try that . There goes part of my day tomorrow.

I have noticed that all the pics of the 6 to 8 pin adaptors show that all they did was run the two extra wires to the ground pin of the 6pin.

 

[ROEHUNTER]

Originally posted by: VERTIGGO
If anyone is still talking about the 8 pin connector, I successfully modded my setup. I just made a 2 pin plug out of an old 6 pin that fits into the extr holes, and wired both of them to the ground pins in a molex plug. In XP she happily overclocks to 848/900 with ATI overdrive, though I'm not getting aggressive until I have a better utility to work with. Vista didn't like overclocking, however, at least in COH which I've been benching.

Well I did it last night . Ran the wires exactly as you did and it works fine. Pretty easy fix.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: ROEHUNTER

Originally posted by: VERTIGGO
If anyone is still talking about the 8 pin connector, I successfully modded my setup. I just made a 2 pin plug out of an old 6 pin that fits into the extr holes, and wired both of them to the ground pins in a molex plug. In XP she happily overclocks to 848/900 with ATI overdrive, though I'm not getting aggressive until I have a better utility to work with. Vista didn't like overclocking, however, at least in COH which I've been benching.

Well I did it last night . Ran the wires exactly as you did and it works fine. Pretty easy fix.

Maybe you should show AMD how to do it

at least post it on their forums as a "workaround" for OC'ing ... to see 'what happens'

 

[VERTIGGO]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: ROEHUNTER

Originally posted by: VERTIGGO
If anyone is still talking about the 8 pin connector, I successfully modded my setup. I just made a 2 pin plug out of an old 6 pin that fits into the extr holes, and wired both of them to the ground pins in a molex plug. In XP she happily overclocks to 848/900 with ATI overdrive, though I'm not getting aggressive until I have a better utility to work with. Vista didn't like overclocking, however, at least in COH which I've been benching.

Well I did it last night . Ran the wires exactly as you did and it works fine. Pretty easy fix.

Maybe you should show AMD how to do it

at least post it on their forums as a "workaround" for OC'ing ... to see 'what happens'

lol. I just hope they smooth out these infant-stage problems with Vista overclocking and overall stability of the R600. In case anyone wondered, it still crashes here and there, (mostly when overclocked) but COH hard locks after a while. Brand new stuff sucks!