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FaH33m said:
guess something wrong with my cooler :(..and idle temps's earlier used to stay @ 38-40 ..its only in the past 1-2 weeks they've shot upto 48-50.

what fan speed are you using ? automatic or manual ?

i am thinking of fixing a 120mm fan(have one lying idle) ..in the adjacent PCI-e or PCI slot to bring down the temperatures ...
any idea to do the same ?
is it needed..72-75 on load is normal or high ?
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maybe its the dust accumulating,i just cleaned mine the other day and the temps dropped a bit(though losing my pencil mod might be one of the reasons,800 stable these days) and iirc 8.12 did decrease my temperatures for some reason.:S
try getting another fan into position if you don't like the noise of the stock cooler,though 72-75 on load seems fine to me.
 
once again crap driver release by ATI , ATI software department is worst :@ , these drivers dont let me run crossfire in vista . with nvidia atleast they have proper drivers and not stupid driver releases like ati :@

all crossfire users are facing same issue in vista when one of the gpu gets disabled by windows . this is really irritating . this issue is there in all releases after 8.12 , they are making drivers worse and saying 20% improvement blah blah .
 
RoBoGhOsT said:
all crossfire users are facing same issue in vista when one of the gpu gets disabled by windows
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Errrr I'm on Vista Ultimate + Cat 9.1. Surprisingly though the Catalyst control center says the the CF capable cards are not perfectly matched, they still seem to run perfectly fine (assuming the higher scores from 3d-mark Vantage). :S

Just downloaded 9.2 couple of hrs back. Now this's irritating. :|

So is 8.12 still the best bet for CF users? Seems like there's been a couple on hotfixes released by ATI for the CF sh*t for 8.12? Damn it, I was planning to re-install the OS tomorrow. Now what!!!

Robo, whats ur take on the drivers for the CF setup?
 
i installed the driver on windows 7 ,32 bit and there crossfire is working fine :S but all my games and stuff is on vista and i cant install xp 64 due to raid driver problem :@

in vista as soon as crossfire is enabled in catalyst , windows disables the second gpu saying driver not compatible with vga and gives code 43 in device manager . i searched about it and found that this issue is there with gtx 295 also in vista with some drivers .
 
Do more RAID now, make multiple OS boot : XP SP3 32 Bit, 64 bit, Vista 32 bit, 64 bit, Windows 7 both bits and Ubuntu 8.10. Use tri-fire, make ur rig super complicated! :tongue: :P
RoBoGhOsT said:
i installed the driver on windows 7 ,32 bit and there crossfire is working fine :S but all my games and stuff is on vista and i cant install xp 64 due to raid driver problem :@

in vista as soon as crossfire is enabled in catalyst , windows disables the second gpu saying driver not compatible with vga and gives code 43 in device manager . i searched about it and found that this issue is there with gtx 295 also in vista with some drivers .
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ROCKFELLA said:
Do more RAID now, make multiple OS boot : XP SP3 32 Bit, 64 bit, Vista 32 bit, 64 bit, Windows 7 both bits and Ubuntu 8.10. Use tri-fire, make ur rig super complicated! :tongue: :P
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yes , i will install xp on new raid array with 2 x 7200.12 drives which i ordered today :rofl: :P
 
There seems to be a workaround for peeps running Catalyst 9.x on Vista x64.

* Symptom

After new Catalyst 9.x driver installed, CrossFireX can't be enabled. When CCC starting first time after install, the adapter unplugged status message displayed and you may also receive incompatible driver disabled warning window pop up message too.

In the CCC, you can check and apply CrossFireX enable option but it's disable again after display off and on.

* Cause of problem

.Net Framework 3.0 of Windows Vista is incompatible with new Catalyst 9.x driver suite and this causing CrossFireX enabling problem.

* Workaround step

- To fix the windows incompatible adapter disable error: Microsoft has announced hot fix KB958851 to fix the PCIe device hotplug issue in Windows Vista and Windows server 2008. When Catalyst driver install, Windows Vista also recognized this as hot plugging PCIe adapter and the KB958851 patch install will fix this problem.

(You can request & download this hotfix to Microsoft in here - Issues occur when you hot-plug or hot-unplug an external PCI Express graphics device while a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 is asleep or hibernating)

- To fix CrossFireX can't enabled problem

1. In Windows Vista, there is .Net Framework 3.0 integrated with OS resources and this must upgrade to 3.5 SP1.

You need to download .Net Framework full installation package from Microsoft (the size is about 242 Mbyte) and doing install.(You can download this full package in here - http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/e/20e90413-712f-438c-988e-fdaa79a8ac3d/dotnetfx35.exe)

If you experiencing error 1603(and similar error) and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 failed to install then doing below steps.

Or you can jump to step 2 if .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 installed successful.

1.1 Perform registry check, clean up and registry defragment. I recommend Vista manager utility for ordinary user to doing this.(Utility homepage: Yamicsoft Software Download - Homepage)

1.2 Install .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

2. Reboot system after successfully installed .Net Framework 3.5 SP1.

3. Download .Net Framework hot fixes and install - KB958481, KB958483, KB958484 - and install these fixes as this orders; KB958481 -> KB958483 -> KB958484.

It's not need to reboot after every fix file installed because each file doing different .Net Framework version fix.

You can download these hot fixes are in here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...05-0A9C3FBDD20D&displaylang=en&displaylang=en

4. After all 3 hotfixes are installed then reboot the system.

5. If there is any previous Catalyst driver exist then uninstall and to make it sure, use DriverSweeper utility to completely remove remaining ATI driver files in Windows safemode.

6. Install new Catalyst 9.x driver suite as installation instruction in normal Window mode.
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Source:AMD Game Forums - [Unofficial workaround] How to fix CrossFireX enabling prroblem in Catalyst 9.x at Windows Vista
 
Lol, am I the only one who's feeling Cat 9.2 drivers're better? :P

Used Driver Sweeper to clean the prev. 9.1 drivers and installed 9.2. CCC instantly detected the CF on restart and enabled them although the same thing shows up:





But got a better score in Vantage than the prev run using Cat 9.1. :P

I guess guys on Vista might need the recent .NET framework update and the hotfixes.
 
i think its shows that cards not being perfectly matched error because you are using two different cards. ..4870 + 4850 . isnt it ?

just an assumption ..^^ not sure..no idea how CF thingie works exactly !
 
Gunman said:
Lol, am I the only one who's feeling Cat 9.2 drivers're better? :P

Used Driver Sweeper to clean the prev. 9.1 drivers and installed 9.2. CCC instantly detected the CF on restart and enabled them although the same thing shows up:




But got a better score in Vantage than the prev run using Cat 9.1. :P

I guess guys on Vista might need the recent .NET framework update and the hotfixes.
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Gunman , please comment on performance of 4850 and 4870 in CF mode :) .. I am about to CF a 4830 and 4850 .
 
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