Crossfire problem

[hahaman152]

Hi

 

Has anyone else encounter this problem with crossfire and the catalyst control center?

 

My problem is when i enable crossfire with my 2 r9 280x cards the usage on the second card is idle no matter what game ect (before restarting the PC) . I assumed one of the cards must be broken so i tried them on there own but no problems both showed gpu usage ect. so i then put both back in made sure the crossfire bridge in properly enabled crossfire and restarted. Once i logged in as soon as the catalyst control center stared the PC freezes every time. To unfreeze i have to remove the bridge log in and disable the ccc.exe then restart and that fixes it ive tried different versions of the ccc ive swapped cards round i have 1000w corsair power supply so i don't think im maxing that out. ive got the latest motherboard BIOS. Crossfire used to work before the ccc updated a few versions ago when i was playing games that needed the extra gpu power. I only noticed  it wasn't working when i enabled it for the first time in about 3 months. Any one else had this problem or a solution ?

 

Thanks Joe          

[Polyvalent]

I'd get a full wipe of everything amd and amd catalyst and some fresh drivers.

 

also can we have full pc specs?

[hahaman152]

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1

AMD FX-9590

8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 

ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z (Socket 942)

3072MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (ASUStek Computer Inc) x2

931GB Western Digital WDC WD10 EZEX-22RKKA0 SATA Disk Device (SATA) 31 °C

465GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500G SATA Disk Device (SSD)

corsair rm 1000w psu 

 

it was working fine until the updates happened it going to later versions dosnt seem to help and from what ive done it dosnt appear to be the cards   

[ExcitezR]

if i was you i would wipe your amd drivers and download the latest see if it works again.

[hahaman152]

ive deleted the drivers the ccc ect and re installed new ones but it was about time ccc went past 14.1 it stopped working at the time I assumed it would be patched so i never used crossfire for ages and just tried it today it dosnt work  

[Altecice]

Are you running your games in Fullscreen mode? Do they have crossfire profiles?

[hahaman152]

yeah to both its more once i do a restart the computer freezes within 20 seconds when crossfire enabled unless i quickly close the ccc.exe in task manager  

[Windows98SE]

I know it was already asked, but are you absolutely sure there are crossfire profiles and that they're setup properly? Everything you've described sounds like it's missing a profile.

 

Perhaps the game you're trying to play would help?

[hahaman152]

Ignore the games I can't play them as when I turn computer on with crossfire enabled it freezes within ten seconds of logging in. I've worked out its the catalyst control centre that cause the crashes when I log in with crossfire enabled. I can u install it computer works fine but then I can't turn crossfire on I don't know what to do.

[hahaman152]

Anyone got any ideas ?

[CalculuS]

I'm suggesting a complete format with windows reinstall.

 

Only thing I can still think of.

[hahaman152]

I solved it. It was caused by the AMD raptr software as without this crossfire works fine.