When playing starcraft 2 with my friend, the game just suddenly froze. I have not had this sort of problems before. When I rebooted the computer I could not get past the login screen for sc2. Same with games like crysis 2 where it would hang when I get in game.
The problem is solved when I disabled crossfire mode. So does this mean I just fried one of the GPU?
When I had crossfire enabled, gpu-z also says that 2 cards are enabled. Any help is appreciated.
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Try reinstalling/updating your drivers, re-enabling crossfire mode, and see if that fixes the issue.
If one gpu was completely fried, then it would be the slave and most likely the computer wouldn't boot. -
I reinstalled catalyst 11.6 after doing a clean uninstall with driver sweeper. Problem still persists. Starcraft 2 crashed at login screen. Rebooted the computer and now I can't get past the windows starting screen.
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FallenwingsMiku Notebook Consultant
use some other benchmarks like 3dmark vantage and GPUZ to verify.
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I think it's time to call Dell. There's still a decent chance the gpu isn't fried, but that is what it looks like. At least we know its the slave and not the master.
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FallenwingsMiku Notebook Consultant
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I ran 3dmark vantage and it gave me BSOD - a clock interrupt was not received from a secondary processor within the alotted time
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TurbodTalon Notebook Virtuoso
What are your specs? Is anything overclocked? Are you using ThrottleStop? If so, return everything to its original clock. Reset the BIOS using the power drain method.
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Good to know. You think I should reflash my cards again? They're stock, never had them changed or replaced.
No overclock on my cpu or gpu, not using throttlestop.
I did the power drain but problem is still there. -
Ran 3dmark vantage fine with crossfire disabled. Could not run it with crossfire enabled. So, guessing problem with one of the cards.
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I think maybe you should flash again. Could be a bad flash but not to sure. The fact that Vantage won't run with CFX could maybe point to a bad CFX cable, but I am pretty sure, as the rest of the the thread posters are, that the slave GPU has gone bad.
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just opened up the laptop and everything seemed fine. Would the slave card show up in gpuz if it's gone bad?
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FallenwingsMiku Notebook Consultant
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You can also try to run furmark to see if anything BSODs. Also, what does it BSOD on?
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Did I just fry my GPU?
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