R 290 w/ xfire

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Motana Bob

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Quick question: I recently upgraded my MOBO to a MSI 970. I have two MSI r 290 with the cross fire bus. I have them connected but my monitoring program only shows the one GPU working, what do I need to do to bring the other one online?
 
So you have both cards connected via a crossfire bridge? Does device manager detect both cards before attaching the bridge? If so, then you need to go into the catalyst software and enable crossfire. Start at 3:30 mark in this video.

 
Aren't 290s bridgeless?

Realistically both cards should detect and give you an enable crossfire option. Does each card work individually?
 
I gave ya bad information. The GPU's are R9 270x's, my bad I didn't have the box in front of me before. I followed the instructions in the video to the letter and am unable to pull up amd catalyst control center. I have uninstalled the program AMD install manager, disconnected the second GPU, reinstalled the install manager, reconnected the second GPU, checked to make sure all the parts are recognized...Hooked up the Crossfirex cable and nothing. I went back to AMD, used their auto-detect program to make sure I have the latest drivers and software, which it confirmed. I am unable to bring up the Catalyst Control Center to enable Crossfire...Did I miss something?
 
Catalyst control center aren't the drivers they use anymore, and haven't been for 9+ months. You need to look for "Radeon Settings".
 
Glad you mentioned that! I was poking around in that very same program, which isn't working correctly. I uninstalled and reinstalled it hoping it would be better, but no luck. I am getting a readout that covers 1/4 or so of the display screen this program brings up. I can not figure out what is said behind this display nor where to go to get crossfire configured. All of the drop downs I click have more of the readout when they open.
 
I thought I might have missed a step. Uninstalled the program, restarted computer, reinstalled program, hard off to plug in secondary gpu, restart, now catalyst won't start and the device manager sees both GPU's as Microsoft basic display adapters.... lemme try it one more damn time :(
Edit: no change
 
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With both cards in.

Uninstall drivers using DDU
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html
Restart
Download latest driver using AMD's autodetect
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Restart
Right click on desktop and go to Radeon Settings
See if Crossfire is enabled under Global Settings

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So! I found my drivers disk, hooked everything up, uninstalled all the current drivers, reinstalled the old drivers off the disk and bam! The cards detected and the crossfire enabled and everything went super smooth except, I still get no activity out of the second card. I know they both work. One is brand new and one isa about a year old. A week or so ago I had to trouble shoot a bad MOBO and swapped the video cards to eliminate them as why the computer wouldn't fire up. I am playing TESO and using MSI Afterburner to monitor my card usage and temps. I have the graphics set to Ultra High and still can't get anything out of the second card. Pulling about 45 to 50 FPS with the set up the way it is now. Lemme know if there is something I am overlooking.
 
Have you used something like MSI Afterburner or GPU-Z to see if both cards have any activity on them? How do you know it's not working? If the game you're trying doesn't support Crossfire then it will default to off.

Also you need to be running latest drivers. The drivers that are on the disc are going to be terribly out of date and only complicate matters.
 
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