5870 CF Problem, keeps disabling crossfire

Hey guys,

I've been noticing that crossfire is being disabled by itself, when playing games I sometimes notice a half drop in FPS and that's how I usually find out.

Then upon re-enabling CF and after a restart I get the black screen problem, and have to go into display settings and change which "display" is my default. It thinks there is another display connected to the computer?

Is there any fix for this at all?

 

I had a similar problem where enabling crossfire would not work because it thought there was two monitors. As soon as I clicked "enable" it would go black and actually restart, and never actually turn back on (the check mark would be gone the next time).

My only solution was to remove the second imaginary display completely from the CCC (where it shows the squares side by side, right click it), and it hasn't done it since.

I don't know if this helps.

 

Note concerning ATI based 17x's -

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