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- Dec 31, 2009
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- California
Hi all
I've got two Radeon 5870 2gb gpu's in crossfire and using in Eyefinity and suddenly--just a couple days ago I noticed my multiplayer gaming abilities totally "tanked"--and it took some investigating of my on line connection and other before I noticed on my MSI Afterburner monitoring software that one GPU was "flatlined"... I'm not a hardware pro, but I've assembled a couple machines, including this one, and I just went about analyzing as best possible. First I replaced the Crossfire bridge and reseated all and power connectors etc- and still only one card was working--. And so I removed the cards from Crossfire and just intalled each card in the primary gpu slot and each card when tested ran fine. So its not the cards. Now that I think about it, I probably used the same power connectors. Maybe I better test different power connections--Although I doubt thats it, but... Assuming its not the power is it the MOBO? I guess there's no software config I could have selected that is preventing crossfire? Its enabled in the Catalyst control center, but it only shows the big number "1". I think it should show "two"--Can't remember for sure. Running latest driver AMD 11.6.
Any other diagnosis thoughts before I replace the Mobo?
I've got two Radeon 5870 2gb gpu's in crossfire and using in Eyefinity and suddenly--just a couple days ago I noticed my multiplayer gaming abilities totally "tanked"--and it took some investigating of my on line connection and other before I noticed on my MSI Afterburner monitoring software that one GPU was "flatlined"... I'm not a hardware pro, but I've assembled a couple machines, including this one, and I just went about analyzing as best possible. First I replaced the Crossfire bridge and reseated all and power connectors etc- and still only one card was working--. And so I removed the cards from Crossfire and just intalled each card in the primary gpu slot and each card when tested ran fine. So its not the cards. Now that I think about it, I probably used the same power connectors. Maybe I better test different power connections--Although I doubt thats it, but... Assuming its not the power is it the MOBO? I guess there's no software config I could have selected that is preventing crossfire? Its enabled in the Catalyst control center, but it only shows the big number "1". I think it should show "two"--Can't remember for sure. Running latest driver AMD 11.6.
Any other diagnosis thoughts before I replace the Mobo?