Radeon 7850 Crossfire disabled with anything higher than Catalyst 13.9

Don Cicero

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I was, up until recently, happily running 2 x Asus Radeon 7850 in crossfire on an Asus P8Z68-V LX motherboard. Then BF4 told me I should install the latest drivers which I did.

After installing the latest drivers I ran 3DMark to see if there were any performance improvements. I then found out that only one of my 7850's was being utilised. I went to check AMD Catalyst and could not find the Crossfire option which was previously available.

I have tried to solve this issue numerous ways but the most thorough method is as follows;-
1. Upgraded motherboard BIOS to latest version = 4105
2. Uninstalled all the AMD graphics drivers using Driver Fusion. I have also tried Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU).
3. Re-installed AMD Catalyst 14.2 (Still the latest version). I have also tried Catalyst 14.1 as well as the non beta 13.12.

Basically if I use any version of Catalyst above 13.9 I cannot enable Crossfire. Whenever I have attempted to change drivers I have always used driver removal software. My last change was removing 14.2 and re-installing 13.9.

I now have Crossfire but I am missing out on features such as Mantle.

Can anyone please help. It is very frustrating.

 

Dblkk

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Can't help, but can relate. I was using two radeon 7870's in crossfire a few months ago. Had a months worth of troubles and never figured it out. Went with a gtx 770, which isn't as powerful as my crossfire setup. But it was all I could get out of selling both 7870's. It runs well, ultra on most, high end high on everything else.
 

Jose Edgardo

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I have the same problem but with two hd 7870. It have to be the motherboard. I have the same mb you have and it giving me the same issue. I think it gotta be the second gpu lane wich is 4x and not 8x.
 

OldToby

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Hi Don,
I went through the same experience and just migrated back to 13.9 and dealt with it for a few months. Picked the problem up tonight and solved it! In my particular case, it was a simple problem with the PCIe x1 slot being enabled, was throttling my secondary GPU in a PCIe 16x from 4x, which it should have been in xfire, to 2x. This was why the card was not being recognized in catylyst, or rather, was disabled with no ability to enable. Once I updated the BIOS to set the secondary to x4, which automatically disables the PCIe x1 slot, it showed up! Hope this helps.

ASUS P8P67 LE Rev 3.0
i7-2600K
8GB
2x Radeon HD 7950 Crossfire (with 14.4 drivers finally ;)
Bunch of SSDs, HDs etc etc...