Asrock 970 Extreme3 + CrossfireX 290 = hang up every time i try any game.

zyndro

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Hello there,

I'm facing an issue and maybe somebody has the answer.

I have a Asrock 970 Extreme3, i had a crossfire with 7950's and it worked great.

i upgrade them and now i have 2 AMD 290's.. but every single time i try them on any game in crossfire mode activated my computer hangs, it takes less than 10 seconds and hangs, then i have to reset.

if i use both cards but with crossfire disabled i have no problems at all, or even if the crossfire is enabled on Catalyst but the game does not use crossfire ( like Wolfestein ) i have no problems and i can play just perfect.

its not drivers i have tried a lot of them, is not power supply i have a 80+ Gold 1250 watts, its not windows, i tried reinstalling from scratch..

the only thing that i believe is causing the problem may be that the previous crossfire with 7950's used a bridge between the cards and now, the 290's do not use that.. so i guess it may be due some incompatibility with the Asrock Motherboard.

my bios is updated to the latest one too..

so there's anyone here that can give me a light ?
 

zyndro

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Hello pbm86, thanks for your answer.

yes, that's what i think.. sadly i'll have to change it, because now i have a crossfire of 290's that i can't use !
so sad because this mobo its been great and even with this issue i'll surely buy another Asrock mobo.

it's just that i had to learn in the hard way..
 

zyndro

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correct, it was also my fault for being cheap when i bought it.. for that time i didnt expect going on a crossfire solution, so the 4x pci-e didnt bother me..
from now and on ill be pointing only mobos with 990FX chipset ! and at least 2 pci-e 16X slots !

 

zyndro

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Hello there,

Thanks for the support guys, my CPU its an AMD FX 6100 3.5GHz @ 4.4GHz

revision of the mobo im not quite clear, its not the Asrock 970 Extreme3 2.0 if you mean that..

here's some more info or if you guys tell me how to get it ill do it !

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