The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Can't Enable My Crossfire

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Jubei Kibagami, Jan 1, 2011.

  1. Jubei Kibagami

    Jubei Kibagami Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    282
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Help

    I can't enable my crossfire for some reason. My GPU-Z.0.5.0 shows "Disabled (crossfiire available)"

    I have the latest driver 8.7 and flashed my vBIOS.

    BTW My crossfire was working before the update and i just reinstalled windows 7.
     
    Jubei Kibagami, Jan 1, 2011
    #1
  2. Jubei Kibagami

    Jubei Kibagami Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    282
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Do I need to flash my second GPU card? Anyone?
     
    Jubei Kibagami, Jan 1, 2011
    #2
  3. Retro6565

    Retro6565 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    21
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I dont have crossfire but it is my understanding that you do have to flash both. See here 17xR1/R2 - Dell 8.763 Driver (4870/5870 GPUs) + 5870 VBIOS Discussion (non-beta) Hope that helps.
     
    Retro6565, Jan 1, 2011
    #3
  4. Jubei Kibagami

    Jubei Kibagami Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    13
    Messages:
    282
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    31
    wait a minute... but my gpu-z shows i have the latest bios version - 0.12.020.000.027.037640 on my second gpu card....should i install AMD driver 10.12?
     
    Jubei Kibagami, Jan 1, 2011
    #4