AMD Radeon HD 7970 Quad CrossFireX Stomps...

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Spent the last 3-4 Hr's messing with the 7970 on Win XP 64 Bit there's actually Drivers for Win XP 64-Bit on the CD that comes with the 7970. They are the only ones I've been able to get to install so far but that's about it. It takes forever to Boot up with the Drivers from the CD (5-10 Min's) & once booted up it's just stuck in 640x480 mode I think it is & the ccc won't come up to function. If I use the display properties to try and get to 1600x1200 mode the screen goes blank & I have to reboot again. I tried other latest drivers but they don't even install 12.1 WHQL was the latest, just get BSOD when using them & memory dumps after 5-6 Min's of being in Windows XP 64 Bit ... Will wait for response from VisionTek to see what they have to say before making any decisions about the Cards.

EDIT: Will put the NVIDIA Card back in for now until I hear from VisionTek or some other solution comes up as the X980E Box is just sitting there now dead in the water & not running BOINC ...

[Fire$torm]

Damn. Ste\/e that just blows goats. It seems being an early adopter can be a pain.

It occurred to me that one issue with your card might have something to do with it being PCIe 3.0 compliant. Maybe WinXP doesn't understand the hardware and is freaking out. Just a thought.....

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Bright Boys at VisionTek, first response to me was what Card was I talking about I gave them the Model # thought that might be a good indication on what card it was ...

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Bright Boys at VisionTek, first response to me was what Card was I talking about I gave them the Model # thought that might be a good indication on what card it was ...

Hahahahaha... OH GAWD! That is soooo sad.

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Well I got Win 7 64 Bit installed on one of my X980E Box's (Still Hate Win 7) & the 7970 Drivers that came on the CD Work, not quite sure what version of driver it is but will check later if I keep Win 7 on the Box. Can't get the Wireless USB Adapter working, downloaded what I thought were the proper drivers from the Belkin site with a Internet Connected Box but still no go after installing them on the Win 7 Box so I have no Internet Connection on the Box yet.

What I hate most about Win 7 is that it's just as bad as Linux with all the restrictions to do anything, I can't even change MSI Afterburner to unofficial mode 0 to 1 because Win 7 says I don't have permission to do that. Is there any way to give myself Complete Permission to do anything I want with or in Win 7 ???

Worse comes to worse I'll just Format the drive & reinstall Win XP & forgo using the 7970's until possibly a proper driver comes out for WIN XP, but I can't live with not being able to do what I want with a OS ...

[DrPop]

Huh. Win7 always found way more drivers for my stuff than XP, so guess I never ran into that snag. Type in UAC into the little run box off the start menu, and click on the resulting link, and turn it off. Next thought is, are you logged in as Admin? I'm guessing that you're just logged in as a regular user name.

Here is a good link with only 2 quick steps you have to do to login as administrator and he has pictures of the screen for each step!
http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7...administrator/

That should solve as much of your permissions problems as possible!
Also, you can usually use Vista64bit and sometimes even XP64bit drivers on low demand hardware like a USB wireless, and it will work.

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Huh. Win7 always found way more drivers for my stuff than XP, so guess I never ran into that snag. Type in UAC into the little run box off the start menu, and click on the resulting link, and turn it off. Next thought is, are you logged in as Admin? I'm guessing that you're just logged in as a regular user name.

Here is a good link with only 2 quick steps you have to do to login as administrator and he has pictures of the screen for each step!
http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7...administrator/

That should solve as much of your permissions problems as possible!
Also, you can usually use Vista64bit and sometimes even XP64bit drivers on low demand hardware like a USB wireless, and it will work.

Okay DP that got me going anyway, I tried the Drivers for the USB Net Adapter that I use on Win XP & it worked so at least now I got it connected to the Net. Now I need to know How to adjust the settings for System Restore, it's taking up so much space I hardly have any left on the C:\ Drive ??? ... Probably be tomorrow before I get BOINC Running on it again or at least late tonight, have to go away for awhile so I won't be able to mess with it for some Hr's again ... Thanks

[Fire$torm]

Okay DP that got me going anyway, I tried the Drivers for the USB Net Adapter that I use on Win XP & it worked so at least now I got it connected to the Net. Now I need to know How to adjust the settings for System Restore, it's taking up so much space I hardly have any left on the C:\ Drive ??? ... Probably be tomorrow before I get BOINC Running on it again or at least late tonight, have to go away for awhile so I won't be able to mess with it for some Hr's again ... Thanks

Right-click the "My Computer" icon either on your desktop or in the Windows Explorer folder tree (Left-hand Column) and select "Properties". This will bring up the System page of Control Panel. In the left column click "Advanced System Settings". On the pop-up windows that appears click on the tab labeled "System Protection". There you will find the settings for system restore.

To make Win7 life easier. Disable UAC completely. Click the Start Menu button (Blue Orb) and in the search box the appears just above it type UAC. Click the link "Change User Account Control Settings" that appears at the top of the list. In the pop-up window move to control slider to the bottom and then click the OK button. No more stupid Windows messages.

More cool stuff:
Lifehacker-Lifehacker's Complete Guide to Windows 7 (Link)

Lifehacker-The Best Windows Tweaks that Still Work in Windows 7 (Link)

Lifehacker-Windows 7 Lets You Customize Your Logon Background (Link)

Lifehacker-Ultimate Windows Tweaker Updates, Improves Windows 7 Support (Link)

Techspot-Enable Windows 7's Hidden "God Mode" (Link)

[DrPop]

F$ beat me to it. Let us know how you get on with it, and if you have any more questions!

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Thanks for the Links F$ & the help DP, some of them I already had & some not from installing Win 7 on my Laptop last year but that was more a set it & forget it thing so I never messed with it much. Installing Win 7 on more box's will get me to be more familiar with the OS I guess so the Links will help as I mess with it ... Almost had BOINC running on it last night but for some reason it installed it in the wrong place even though I told it where to Install it so I could just take off from where I was with Win XP. I thought I did but might have messed up as I was Mentally wore out from trying to get things to work, think the only thing I need to do now is get BOINC running & Activate the OS then see what Project/Projects I can get the 7970's to run right on ...

EDIT: Need to get the 2 Win 7 Box's to Share with each other too, they Share with the XP Box's but not with each other yet, made some Sharing changes so will go start the other Win 7 Box back up again & see if that worked or not ...