Crossfire with 2x Radeon HD 6970s does not work

NjB479

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Hello,

I've been trying (hopelessly) trying to get my crossfire setup working, but whatever I do, the 'Enable' option in Catalyst Control Centre is greyed out, saying; The AMD CrossFireX internal bridge interconnects linking your graphics cards together are not properly attached...

I've tried;

  • - Updating bios to UEFI and changing graphic settings there.
    - Reseating the cards and changing them.
    - Flipping and reseated the Crossfire bridge.
    - Uninstalling all drivers and CCC (in safe mode using Driver Sweeper) and reinstalling them. I do get a popup message from CCC saying that a crossfire setup is detected, but when I press Go it'll just take me to CCC CrossfireX tab, where the enable is once again not accessible.
    - Tried several other drivers and CCCs (older version).
    - Probably more (since I've spend hours on this, but I can't remember..

Addition information:

  • - GPU-Z sees both cards and (like Gigabyte says) both run at x8.
    - They are both seen in device manager.
    - Both single cards work properly alone.

My setup:

  • - Intel Core i5 2500K Boxed
    - Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3
    - 2x Club 3D Radeon HD 6950 CoolStream Edition (shaders unlocked: 6970s)
    - Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ, 1TB
    - Corsair Vengeance LP CML8GX3M2A1600C9
    - 2x Samsung 830 series (RAID0)
    - Windows 10 (Windows 8.1 yesterday)
    - AMD Catalyst™ 15.8 Beta Driver

I've run out of things to try, so I would really appreciate some suggestions!!
 

NjB479

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I first tried to run crossfire when my motherboard bios was still a non-UEFI non-beta version.
The graphic cards are running the exact same bios. Flashed it that way and checked GPU-Z.

I haven't tried another crossfire bridge, will do so, but since there are so many people with these kind of problems and the same error message where a new bridge didn't help, I'm kind of skeptic..