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    I messed up can't get crossfire working

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Spydweb, Nov 7, 2011.

  1. Spydweb

    Spydweb Notebook Consultant

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    Getting ready to sell my beast,and did a reformat of the hard drive,I have 6970's installed,and all was working before which driver do I need to install first
    The dell ones will not let me set crossfire up
     
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    kind of stumped here, it won't install the 5870 drivers, and the 6970 drivers wont enable crossfire, these are both dell drivers
     
    Spydweb, Nov 8, 2011
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    CptXabaras Overclocked, Overvolted, Liquid Cooled

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    I will give that a try tonight, worth a try.
     
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    fixed,it turns out to have been a power supply problem
     
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    power supply problem??
     
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    Yes, I tried running windows index to see what it rated with one card, and it told me it could not run on battery power even though it was pluged in strange it was not charging,but the power was not droping.
    anyway put on the charger that came with the unit and all was good it ran the index, and gpuz said crossfire was enabled
     
    Spydweb, Nov 9, 2011
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