Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

possibly give it a few days run all your cleanups and defrag just in case.

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

possibly right, thanks, will rep when ive dished a couple more out

One last thing ;) when would the crossfire lose its settings. Im 95% sure it keeps droping down to one card. This evening i booted up did a few bits and was checking everything was the same as before the mobo was installed. I ran 3dmark06 to check it an the frame rate was poor. Checked crossfire was on and it was. I had to reinstall the drivers for the cards to get the frame rate back. This isnt the first time ive had to do this

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

im not sure to be honest. I take it you have a good psu powering them off seperate rails?

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

its an HEC-550TD-PTE

so it 550W and it looks like its powering them off of different rails. Too many cable ties to be sure

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

All seems ok to me. Keep an eye on your crossfire set up maybe find a friend with a different but good psu to test if it does go wrong again :)

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

errrm i dont know anyone with a power supply like that or infact anyone with a mobo that would take them ;)

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in fact it has gone wrong again, back down to 35 fps on the first part on 3dmark06 when its normally around 67-70

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turning crossfire off saving it and then turning if back rectified it this time. But it went again and this time the same approach doesnt fix it

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

is there a new control centre maybe?

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

it looks like 3d mark turns it off??? I go in a crossfire is working and the frame rate is good, i exit 3dmark and go back in immediately and crossfire is no longer working hower the control centre says its still on

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Got the latest one, will have to look at this tomorrow night

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

how odd what about testing it in game most consoles have a framerate show command

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

If i have crossfire on and run 3dmark its fine, if i leave 3dmark and go back into 3dmark it stops working. It doesnt mater how many times i turn crossfire on and off if i go back to 3dmark with crossfire on it will still not work.

If i go back to 3dmark with crossfire off and then run 3dmark leave 3dmark and go an turn crossfire back on when i go back to 3dmark it works fine until i leave 3dmark again

Wierd!!! will try a game tomorrow

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

Tried a couple of games, neither of them will start if crossfire is switched on, both generate an error report. However if crossfire is switched off both games work

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

all I can think of is maybe the crossfire cables faulty ?

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

it has been changed once but i hadnt seen this fault before. What i dont understand is why it works fine when i go into 3dmark06 and then it stops when i leave until i got through the process i posted.

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installing the crossfire driver that were released yesterday seems to have resolved the 3dmark06 issue

Still cant go into any of the 2 games i have load with crossfire on though

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i think i may have crakced it!!!

Both of the games seem to work if you go into them setting up the same screen resolution as has been defined to windows

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

Just saw you nomiate me and I was thinking about this thread when I saw this http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=25405

Think i may consider this if I was running 2 cards

Re: Primary IDE or not?
 

i dont seem to have a problem with power (that i know of ;))