*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M17x-R2 Edition Owner's Lounge - Part 2

Nah.

It just irks me when people post the same stuff in multiple threads. lol

No offense to you, just bothers me is all.

Come on, I know you have some little thing that bothers you, no?

 

If i remember correctly someone tried this and it would not work. I would have to dig through some old threads..

 

Joker you get your 2nd HD cage and stuff? I got a call from dell today saying its on backorder... good thing its not important.

 

Everything is on friggin' backorder with Dell.

 

Haha I made sure to keep my 2nd hard drive caddy and interposer from my R1 to use with my R2. It'll come in handy for that new 1tb hard drive.

 

Damn, no I haven't. I'm leaving this place for good in a few days, guess I'll have to call them to check and have it shipped to California if it's backordered. It's going to be hilarious to see all the moans and groans once R2 w/the 5870 hits and delay emails are sent out over and over.

 

Hey, whens the 5870 refresh coming out?,Im ready to pull the trigger


BTW ,Joker are you a real doc ?

 

I just play one on TV.

 

I got my interposer and ONE screw yesterday - now running dual SSDs

Very cool for my work stuff - as i figured it would be

 

Mind if I ask what brand ssd and size ? I am shopping for one....

 

Will these 12.5MM high drives fit in the M17x-R2?

 

well they are 2.5 mm bigger than the western digital 320gb drives. i guess that they'll fit, but we will never know until we try.
i consider buying a 1tb along with the 160gb intel ssd.

 

Same thing here.

 

Thanks everyone <sigh>

 

Congrats on the ONE screw...I didn't get that

 

Thats exactly what I was considering also

 

First post has been updated with a link to the 10.3 driver.

 

Google "nvidia bacteria" under images.

 

So I ordered my AW with the 128GB SSD and I installed a OCZ Gen 1 60GB SSD

It's pretty good but the performance isn't great

Perf Testing with ATTO: - all speeds are averages at the higher block sizes
Samsung 128GB: READ: 210MB/s WRITE: 140MB/s
OCZ 60GB: READ: 140MB/s WRITE: 95MB/s
OCZ 100GB Vertex LE: READ: 245MB/s WRITE: 250MB/s

The Vertex is in my desktop gaming system - it rocks!

 

Well, on the phone with Dell for 2 hours and 30 minutes. Reseated a crossfire cable. I am hoping they send my two 4870 cards by tomorrow so I can install those badboys and get crackin' on the gameplay!!! Otherwise tomorrow will be a boring day off from work.

 

IS there some reason why everyone seems to think that 10.3 drivers install the graphics driver without using mobility modder? If you're under this delusion, allow me to change your beliefs.

One of two scenarios: you just formatted, you haven't installed dell's 4870 drivers. If you run the 10.3 installer and click CUSTOM so you can actually see what's going to be installed, you'll notice the display driver isn't on that list. Check GPUz after the installation completes, I bet your video card still has microsoft corporation in the title. Yeah, you've got catalyst software, but no crossfire and no new drivers.

You've installed dell's 4870 drivers. Rebooted. Ran the 10.3 instaler. AGAIN click custom. Under the 'customize install' page, click the thing called ATI display driver below the free lord of the rings game. Notice it says "ati display driver is already installed and up to date." that's because the installer has noticed that your graphics card isn't compatible with 10.3 and its letting you know that your dell driver (as far as it can tell) is up to date.

Now use mobility modder on the 10.3 drivers and run the installer again. click custom (always click custom) and click on the ATI Display Driver on the customize install page. Oh wow. "select to upgrade from 8.680..." is now what it says.

Now that everyone is on the same page, can someone figure out how to change which screen resolutions are supported with drivers? 9.12 seems to be the only one that has 1280x800 (dell's and 10.3 do not).

I need this resolution for a multitude of reasons (my external display at my mom's house is this resolution and running crysis at 1920x1200 on a machine like this is just silly. Running it at an equivalent ratio increases FPS without stretching the game out in any way).

 

Dell is going to replace the 4870 card that has the crossfire cable connection covered (not the exposed side).

What's this talk about "microsoft"? Where would I see that in GPU-Z? The title says "Tech PowerUP GPU-Z 0.3.9" I checked all of the other tabs and I don't see "microsoft" anywhere.

 

lmao, they're trying to send a tech to my house to install the card. no way! I told him I can install it myself.

 

I've also just discovered that even if you use mobility modder, 10.3 drivers still fail to install. check the log when it finishes. I still don't know why this happens.

 

Everyone else seems to have installed the 10.3's just fine besides you, zentih.

lol

 

^^^^^^^

I agree works fine for my R2 dual 4870's

 

Don't the 10.3 drivers already have support for mobility cards? Why would you have to mod them?

 

Same....
10char

 

There is no way any of you truly have 10.3 installed.

 

Want a screen shot?

 

Yep same here, drivers are installed and working correctly.

 

I wanna install them..But Idk how..Do i remove the Dell Drivers and then reboot or just install them after then reboot? o.o Its confusing me..

 

Yes....... show me the install log that you see after installation is complete.

 

Remove the Dell drivers reboot into safe mode, use driver sweeper to remove the ATI remnants, reboot, install the 10.3.

 

I just installed them over the dell drivers. I had to reboot for it to show crossfire enabled.

 

Zenith, take a look. I'm asssuming you're referring to the d3d version listing as 8.14? That's probably why you're getting confused. Otherwise you are probably having some registry issues. I did this simply by using the ATi install manager to remove the drivers and then installed the new ones.

 

I tried that as someone suggested these drivers are ok for that, but it led to some random issues (bsod's) and poor in game performance. So I decided to start over and delete all driver remnants first and now everything is perfect and I don't experience these issues.

 

Umm, I don't even know what to say to this statement.

lol

 

I lol when I saw that statement. lol

 

I've found out more.

Official 10.3 from AMD's website fails. Both regular and mobility modded.
Official 10.3 mobility from AMD's website fails, both regular and mobility modded.
Official 10.3 Preview (with march 16th in its filename) fails, both regular and mobilitymodded.

The only 10.3 that seems to install successfully (and I'm assuming that's what you're using) is the 10.3 preview from techpowerup's website.

Even the forums of HardwareHeaven (where mobility modder comes from) admits that this problem exists.

 

I got the driver straight off AMD's website. The problem is on your end.

 

Same here bro. I got the final 10.3's from AMD's site. And I installed those over the 10.3a's from AMD's site as well.

 

Try installing over nothing.

remove all ATI drivers.

Microsoft will install its version automatically, but those don't count.

Try installing the official 10.3 on top of the microsoft drivers. I bet it doesn't work.

 

Why would they do that if they already have their drivers working? Just because you are having issues doesn't mean that everyone else is.

 

As I said to WaR, I bet you installed over top of techpowerup's 10.3a preview?

Go into your control panel. Express uninstall all ati software.

reboot.

microsoft will install its crap ATI drivers automatically.

run ccleaner. clean both files and registry. remove any ATI stuff from startup just for good measure.

Now, after one more reboot, try and install the official 10.3 drivers. I'd be willing to bet it doesn't work (check the log).

 

Crylo said earlier that he installed them after wiping the old drivers

 

There were no 10.3's previously installed and the express uninstall was used. There is no trace of MS drivers as I've SHOWN YOU IN THE ATTACHED PHOTOS. Figure out the problem on your end, you're just making yourself seem more foolish with each post and it's getting tiring.

 

For what it is worth, I am having the same issues that Zenith is. Still working on figuring out why. And I am not having that problem just with the new 10.3s, but ANY driver I try to install except the original Dell ones (new dell ones dont work)

I had the original 10.3 betas installed, express uninstalled ALL ATI software then driversweeped in safe mode. Then tried to install the new mobility 10.3s and having the EXACT same problems that Zenith is. It is QUITE frustrating. As far as I can guess I am blaming driver sweeper thinking it killed a registry I needed. I have an image of my system a couple weeks old (same driver as I had before trying all this) so will see if I can export those reg's and import them on my laptop to hopefully fix it all.

 

It's more than likely a registry error ( as I've already pointed out to Zenith). It's definitely not an AMD Catalyst problem, plenty of people have it installed without issue. There's no point in using driver sweeper as long as you use the ATi uninstall manager, it does a good enough job.

 

Ya I am pretty driver sweeper is where I went wrong. Not bothering with that program ever again.....hopefully this "restore" of registries will do it for me, will find out tonight when I am with that image drive again