Random rebooting

[d3fu5i0n]

When I installed my second 5770 Catalyst didn't recognise anything! I had to uninstall Catalyst and reinstall the driver package again, bingo (weird, but it worked, and automatically enabled CrossFire).

To get rid of any abnormalities clean out the drivers with Driver Sweeper or Driver Cleaner.

I hate graphics driver packages; they're never done properly and for some reason pass WHQL. I roared about that one on Twitter.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

When I installed my second 5770 Catalyst didn't recognise anything! I had to uninstall Catalyst and reinstall the driver package again, bingo (weird, but it worked, and automatically enabled CrossFire).

To get rid of any abnormalities clean out the drivers with Driver Sweeper or Driver Cleaner.

I hate graphics driver packages; they're never done properly and for some reason pass WHQL. I roared about that one on Twitter.

I'm RMAing, it's not the drivers coz one card works fine on it's own, the new one still shuts the system down after while on it's own.

Windows crossfired them for me, at least I know what to expect as far as that goes when I get a replacement

 

[Rastalovich]

I personally think that WHQL certification is a joke. Well as far as performance users are concerned. Afaic they just say to me that the driverset brings up a Windows desktop and think look and appear normal whilst on it.

Have to be fair, this is one-of the bug-bears I have with xfire/SLI. I know there's people who swear blind by it and have good experiences with it, but imo I just can't be doing with the messing about. That includes xfire/SLI welded onto the same pcb. Gimme the single equiv of the 2 cards any day.

The problem I see with your RMA is that the company will get straight back to you saying the thing is ok. They will/would have to do quite extensive tests in order to reproduce your problem I suspect. Don't let them fob you off tho, they know full well that they can't replicate everyone's situation. As long as it's a decent manuf you should be ok.

Last minute thing to try tho. If you have a spare hard disk somewhere, install it on it's own with a fresh OS etc and see what happens ??

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

Would you believe it, a spare hdd is the single spare component i do not have floating around.

They should see it happen as soon as they run any relatively demanding 3D application. Within matter of minutes.

 

[d3fu5i0n]

I personally think that WHQL certification is a joke. Well as far as performance users are concerned. Afaic they just say to me that the driverset brings up a Windows desktop and think look and appear normal whilst on it.

Have to be fair, this is one-of the bug-bears I have with xfire/SLI. I know there's people who swear blind by it and have good experiences with it, but imo I just can't be doing with the messing about. That includes xfire/SLI welded onto the same pcb. Gimme the single equiv of the 2 cards any day.

The problem I see with your RMA is that the company will get straight back to you saying the thing is ok. They will/would have to do quite extensive tests in order to reproduce your problem I suspect. Don't let them fob you off tho, they know full well that they can't replicate everyone's situation. As long as it's a decent manuf you should be ok.

Last minute thing to try tho. If you have a spare hard disk somewhere, install it on it's own with a fresh OS etc and see what happens ??

I rambled about WHQL being a joke before. You do have to take into account all the different customisations they have to do... different motherboard platforms (and chipsets subsequently) single GPU configurations and mutli configs for each of those all in different numbers. Then that multiplies by the different options of multiple displays etcetera. There are a lot of options. But I can't believe that for two WHQL releases they let the cursor lag box slip through.

I'd personally see myself as one of the lucky ones with CrossFire. But I've found that the more options I add or the more things I try to do, which relies on the driver package, the more issues occur or bugs I find.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

I rambled about WHQL being a joke before. You do have to take into account all the different customisations they have to do... different motherboard platforms (and chipsets subsequently) single GPU configurations and mutli configs for each of those all in different numbers. Then that multiplies by the different options of multiple displays etcetera. There are a lot of options. But I can't believe that for two WHQL releases they let the cursor lag box slip through.

I'd personally see myself as one of the lucky ones with CrossFire. But I've found that the more options I add or the more things I try to do, which relies on the driver package, the more issues occur or bugs I find.

But haven't AMD/ ATI always had good cards with BS drivers?