Catalyst 14.12 WHQL Omega Windows®

shadow001 said:
I've always used the additional PCI-e power connectors, but there is an additional 4 Molex type connector which was since connected and made no difference.
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That molex is the supplemental pcie power.. High end boards often have a 6-pin to the mobo instead of a molex too.

If you don't plug it in you can damage the board, usually with burn marks on the 24 pin socket. If it's already damaged then no, plugging it in afterwards wont make a difference.

That's probably not the issue though, just throwing it out there because you mentioned you weren't using it before.
 
demo said:
That molex is the supplemental pcie power.. High end boards often have a 6-pin to the mobo instead of a molex too.

If you don't plug it in you can damage the board, usually with burn marks on the 24 pin socket. If it's already damaged then no, plugging it in afterwards wont make a difference.

That's probably not the issue though, just throwing it out there because you mentioned you weren't using it before.
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My board has the 24 pin main power connector, and two 8 pin power connectors, and the 4 pin molex specifically for high draw devices for the PCI-e slots.
 
t0adp1p3 said:
One issue I continue to have is in certain games the driver (and every past driver as well) will crash so very hard, that when I reboot my computer will say no driver is installed...I am not even sure what to make of that or what would cause that. ....
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Occasionally the screen will flash a checkerboard pattern in those games just prior to it happening, not always but sometimes. Also some other games (ARMA III comes to mind) will give this random checkerboard flicker(which makes me suspect I am just lucky those ones haven't crashed as well, and it is just a matter of time).
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One of your crossfired cards has very likely gone bad. Try to isolate the issue - perhaps extended Hevan/Firestrike runs on one card alone, or the games that expose the issue. R9 290 should still be under warranty.
 
lemonhead said:
One of your crossfired cards has very likely gone bad. Try to isolate the issue - perhaps extended Hevan/Firestrike runs on one card alone, or the games that expose the issue. R9 290 should still be under warranty.
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I would look in to something hardware bad card or psu maybe

I've had every new gen amd/ati cards in crossfire back to x1950xtx 8 years and don't think I ever had it loose the drivers from a crash
 
The Mac said:
whatever...

ill just continue to add people who repeatedly bring up the same old stuff, and have nothing new to add ot the conversation to my ignore list.
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That's your prerogative.

Toad another suggestion ... I was having really strange issues that came up around a month ago and plagued me for a bit. I thought one of my 680s were dying, but it turned out, oddly enough, that my CPU needed a 1 increment notch in voltage. It's a 3770K running @ 4.6Ghz, previously at 1.28v, now at 1.285. This OC was prime/OCCT stable for over a year. I'm not one of those half-ass overclockers that think it's stable if it runs games.

I have not had a single issue since then. I was having CTDs, random reboots, and even at one point, a blue-screen. Double check all your OCs, you know how flaky some of this stuff can get when we're OCing. Maybe your chip, due to age, just needs a very very slight bump in voltage. Degradation sucks :cry: I'm surprised my 3770K degraded, as small as it did, since it's always run cool and has never seen a large amount of voltage or pushed past 4.6.

Oh well. I haven't had any issues for over a week now after having a random reboot nearly once a day.
 
shadow001 said:
My board has the 24 pin main power connector, and two 8 pin power connectors, and the 4 pin molex specifically for high draw devices for the PCI-e slots.
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Yes I know shadow. Most high end boards have a molex, sometimes 2, or better yet a 6-pin pcie connector to the board. If you don't use them you can damage the board or have other issues, especially when trying to oc.


This board for example has 6-pin pcie power above the first pcie slot, and also has dual 8-pins for the CPU.

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Guess I should have made it more clear that I was using both the 24 pin, and both 8 pin power connectors, and only recently connected the molex one to see if it could help detection on the last GPU...It didn't.


System runs just fine otherwise.
 
This thread is specific to the Cat 14.12 driver set. If you want to discuss other topics, create a separate thread.

Cleaned.
 
Lupine said:
This thread is specific to the Cat 14.12 driver set. If you want to discuss other topics, create a separate thread.

Cleaned.
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There's two pages of specific hardware related problems here. My last post- at least a good part of it - was a civil attempt to grasp news about possible driver releases to potential AMD peeps lurking in the thread, since none have been released for three months. Legitimate, I think, in a thread about drivers.

I shall not discuss your authority, but may the light of fairness and equity shine upon each and every of your irrevocable decisions.
 
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Nunz said:
That's your prerogative.

Toad another suggestion ... I was having really strange issues that came up around a month ago and plagued me for a bit. I thought one of my 680s were dying, but it turned out, oddly enough, that my CPU needed a 1 increment notch in voltage. It's a 3770K running @ 4.6Ghz, previously at 1.28v, now at 1.285. This OC was prime/OCCT stable for over a year. I'm not one of those half-ass overclockers that think it's stable if it runs games.

I have not had a single issue since then. I was having CTDs, random reboots, and even at one point, a blue-screen. Double check all your OCs, you know how flaky some of this stuff can get when we're OCing. Maybe your chip, due to age, just needs a very very slight bump in voltage. Degradation sucks :cry: I'm surprised my 3770K degraded, as small as it did, since it's always run cool and has never seen a large amount of voltage or pushed past 4.6.

Oh well. I haven't had any issues for over a week now after having a random reboot nearly once a day.
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I had the same issue with my 3770k after about a year and half. Needed an extra .05v to stabilize things.
 
Lurk said:
There's two pages of specific hardware related problems here. My last post- at least a good part of it - was a civil attempt to grasp news about possible driver releases to potential AMD peeps lurking in the thread, since none have been released for three months. Legitimate, I think, in a thread about drivers.
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If its not specific to this driver set, its not appropriate for this thread. And the OT, non driver specific posts began with you asking others to pardon the trolling so ...

These Catalyst driver threads are to be focused on the driver release. If the commentary is of a more general nature, it needs to be in its own thread.
 
So I nuked the current install and already installed a fresh copy, and i'm now in the process of installing every windows update there is before I install the Omega driver set and see if I can finally see that 4th and final card.
 
53 updates installed but 71 updates to go (for now).....Takes longer to install all this than the O/S itself...:lol:

3.4 GB of updates once this pack is installed.
 
u aint kidding..

i installed win7 on a machine lst week and it took all day to patch up from sp1.

lol

Im crossing my finger for you that the omegas see the 4th card...
 
The Mac said:
u aint kidding..

i installed win7 on a machine lst week and it took all day to patch up from sp1.

lol

Im crossing my finger for you that the omegas see the 4th card...
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If it doesn't (i'll know in a couple of hours), there's only one possibility left really and that's that while the motherboard bios detects and can power up or off all 4 cards (seen it dozens of times in the past couple of days), depending if I turn on the system, or shut it down or simply put it sleep mode, it doesn't inform windows of the existence of that 4 card.


All other possibilities have been exhausted basically... The cards work, the motherboard slots work, the power is there, windows is a fresh install, the latest drivers used....So that's the only thing left, basically the presence of a 4th card not being communicated between the bios and windows.
 
well, there are 2 more options.

1. roll back drivers to ones you know worked.

2. roll back bios update to one you know worked.
 
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