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max in montreal

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Quote from: Folax on July 27, 2011, 12:06:33 PM

I have promised not to share, he can share if he desires.
I am all about sharing and helping others, but not with something I didn't come up with myself, it's just not right.

I am very surprised the simple solution is nowhere to be found though, perhaps it only works on catalyst version 11.6b and therefore is pretty fresh.

LOL thats too funny...

Cellcote

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My situation: I have an 5870 and a 5770. I couldn't select the 5770 from the GUIMiner device. What I did to fix my setup (5870+5770) is install 11.6b, then I could select the card. It´s as easy as that!

nosro

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I'll chime in because I had this frustration a few days ago.

All I did was use Windows (not CCC) Desktop Properties / Settings. Then I clicked on the second monitor and checked "Extend my windows desktop to this monitor". That enabled the second monitor.

The downside is that I now have an extended desktop where I can only see half of the desktop. I am unable to find a solution to mirror or duplicate the desktop so that I do not have a phantom extended desktop.

Folax

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I have promised not to share, he can share if he desires.
I am all about sharing and helping others, but not with something I didn't come up with myself, it's just not right.

I am very surprised the simple solution is nowhere to be found though, perhaps it only works on catalyst version 11.6b and therefore is pretty fresh.

Xephan

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Quote from: Folax on July 27, 2011, 11:12:22 AM

It is solved. Both adapters are active and mining as we speak!

Some bright person from this forum has PM'ed me the solution, which is quite simple actually.

I will send him the 2 BTC he deserves.

That's nice, I don't suppose you would be willing to share the solution? Cheesy

Folax

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It is solved. Both adapters are active and mining as we speak!

Some bright person from this forum has PM'ed me the solution, which is quite simple actually.

I will send him the 2 BTC he deserves.

Xephan

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If XP64 doesn't see the second card despite actually having a monitor hooked up, then I'm guessing it's a XP64 bug in the Catalyst drivers. Not likely something we can fix on our end, probably have to raise the issue with AMD.

Folax

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No and No.
When I switch both monitors on, only one monitor will become active when I boot the machine.

This is what it looks like:

Xephan

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Quote from: Folax on July 27, 2011, 02:46:30 AM

That could be it, although one would suspect that when AMD releases a driver version for XP64 that deals with this adapter disable thing, it actually deals with the adapter disable thing under XP64.

I want to be able to work on my PC while running XP64 and mine on 2 cards while doing so.
Must be some registry trick possible for this right? It's really the software telling the hardware that the card is disabled.

2 BTC for the person who hands me the solution.

Does your second monitor show anything during boot and after you go into Windows? Can you use an extended desktop or mirror display on the second card's monitor?

Folax

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Quote from: sir cuddles on July 27, 2011, 03:00:01 AM

There is an early build of 11.7 already leaked if you want. I'm using it and that stopped the opencl crash when using other hardware accelerated applications with my 6950.

I read that 11.6b is referred to as 11.7 by some, could this be the case?

sir cuddles

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There is an early build of 11.7 already leaked if you want. I'm using it and that stopped the opencl crash when using other hardware accelerated applications with my 6950.

Folax

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That could be it, although one would suspect that when AMD releases a driver version for XP64 that deals with this adapter disable thing, it actually deals with the adapter disable thing under XP64.

I want to be able to work on my PC while running XP64 and mine on 2 cards while doing so.
Must be some registry trick possible for this right? It's really the software telling the hardware that the card is disabled.

2 BTC for the person who hands me the solution.

Xephan

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Quote from: Folax on July 26, 2011, 02:51:45 PM

I have 2x5870 in my XP64 PC and had the "disabled adapter" error (read: frustration).

XP64 didn't have a very good reputation due to drivers issue. While it's been vastly improved, the possibility exists that this is one of those obscure issues with it?

Folax

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I have 2x5870 in my XP64 PC and had the "disabled adapter" error (read: frustration).

I now removed all Ati drivers using the normal uninstall and a tool to get rid of all display drivers after the uninstall to clean up properly.
Then applied catalyst 11.6b after reboot and nothing seems to have changed: adapter 1 is still disabled, adapter 0 mines just fine.

I have attached a monitor now using a DVI->D-sub plug but even when I turn the 2nd monitor on during boot it won't switch on, therefore I doubt a dummy plug will do the job.

No crossfire bridge is applied.

I have swapped the cards and this works, also the cards both work in my other PC.

When running Linux all works fine even without a monitor attached to either of the cards so I'm convinced it's not a hardware issue.

Anyone else still having this frustration/issue?

btminer8

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yea 11.6b doesnt need plug and i have been running 2 x 6870 on a 520watt PSU for a week without any issue

bitminerrr

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11.6b are actually the best drivers I've used, the BSOD is gone, so is the checkerboard vsync bug.

Starlightbreaker

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Quote from: The_JMiner on July 14, 2011, 07:21:50 PM

I can run my 2nd card but I cant SEE it in the Catalyst, can you?

oh.

yeah, it's there.

The_JMiner

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I can run my 2nd card but I cant SEE it in the Catalyst, can you?

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Quote from: The_JMiner on July 14, 2011, 07:04:47 PM

Quote from: Starlightbreaker on July 13, 2011, 11:58:29 PM

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst116bHotfix.aspx

No need to use dummy plug, while waiting for 11.7 Grin

I can run 5770 + 5830 for couple of minutes before my power supply blew up. Tongue

How did you not use the dummy switch? Catalyst still is not showing my 2nd card?

i dunno, i just installed it, and i can run both w/o the plug. :/

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Quote from: Starlightbreaker on July 13, 2011, 11:58:29 PM

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst116bHotfix.aspx

No need to use dummy plug, while waiting for 11.7 Grin

I can run 5770 + 5830 for couple of minutes before my power supply blew up. Tongue

How did you not use the dummy switch? Catalyst still is not showing my 2nd card?

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