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    Second 6990M Not Detected/CrossfireX Not Enabled

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by weinstein888, Jul 30, 2015.

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    Hello everyone. I recently started having some really bad performance issues with my M17X R2. The original issue is kind of vague, but I believe it may be a degrading power supply judging by the shut downs and light going out on power brick afterward.

    The reason I'm posting here is because, like an idiot, I decided to reseat my GPUs to see if that might make a difference. I basically just felt like tinkering with it to see if I could get a black magic kind of resolution that I'm sure we've all encountered before. After the reseat, my second GPU, a 6990M, which I have had trouble enabling in the past was not detected and CrossfireX could not be enabled.

    Anyone have a guess as to what the issue might be? I'd say dead card, but the CCC installation log still shows that it's there, just not as a "Linked Adapter" in CCC or able to be CFX'd.

    Any advice anyone can offer is highly appreciated.
     
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