Hi,
I have had my Vortex 3 laptop for less than a month, and its a great laptop, quiet, fast and lovely, but the 7970m Crossfire setup just isn't working well.
I work in IT as an IT Manager so have quite alot of knowledge of computers, and gfx cards in general. I have uninstalled the bog standard graphic drivers and installed the 13.2 beta drivers and played Skyrim and many other games, and things have been fine, but I get the odd blue screen, which I put down to the usual Radeon unreliability, but I could live with it.
However last night was a different matter. I loaded up the laptop, and proceeded to receive a blue screen with a atikmpag.sys, I thought no problem I will just reboot and go on. I rebooted and then received a Directx 9 not running and no AMD cards can be found message. Very unusual.
So not to be disheartened I decided to downgrade to the 13.1 official drivers just to be sure it wasn't a beta driver issue. Downgraded with the correct ADD/REMOVE process as discussed in a sticky post on this forum, rebooted, reinstalled, and rebooted, and still the issue with no AMD cards found or Directx 9 running.
So I went into the Device Manager and found that both the 7970m gfx cards had been disabled, so I re-enabled them and restarted the machine and it all seemed to work again. I won't bore you going on but this happened repeatedly over an hour before I could stablise it. However, I am now having to avoid some games I would like to play on my laptop as they just won't run on those cards e.g. Arma 3 Alpha
I wanted to know if its possible to replace my current 7970m Crossfire setup for a single 680 nvidia card or even dual setup (though financially that may not be possible), as I don't really want to have to go through this problem again and again over the coming years?
I have contacted PCSpecialist customer support, but was more curious if anyone else has had this done before, just so I have a precedence
I just want to add the laptop is fantastic, its a good build, sturdy, can't believe how quiet it is at full load, so I have no problem with the laptop its just those unreliable AMD cards causing me problems
Thanks in advance
I have had my Vortex 3 laptop for less than a month, and its a great laptop, quiet, fast and lovely, but the 7970m Crossfire setup just isn't working well.
I work in IT as an IT Manager so have quite alot of knowledge of computers, and gfx cards in general. I have uninstalled the bog standard graphic drivers and installed the 13.2 beta drivers and played Skyrim and many other games, and things have been fine, but I get the odd blue screen, which I put down to the usual Radeon unreliability, but I could live with it.
However last night was a different matter. I loaded up the laptop, and proceeded to receive a blue screen with a atikmpag.sys, I thought no problem I will just reboot and go on. I rebooted and then received a Directx 9 not running and no AMD cards can be found message. Very unusual.
So not to be disheartened I decided to downgrade to the 13.1 official drivers just to be sure it wasn't a beta driver issue. Downgraded with the correct ADD/REMOVE process as discussed in a sticky post on this forum, rebooted, reinstalled, and rebooted, and still the issue with no AMD cards found or Directx 9 running.
So I went into the Device Manager and found that both the 7970m gfx cards had been disabled, so I re-enabled them and restarted the machine and it all seemed to work again. I won't bore you going on but this happened repeatedly over an hour before I could stablise it. However, I am now having to avoid some games I would like to play on my laptop as they just won't run on those cards e.g. Arma 3 Alpha
I wanted to know if its possible to replace my current 7970m Crossfire setup for a single 680 nvidia card or even dual setup (though financially that may not be possible), as I don't really want to have to go through this problem again and again over the coming years?
I have contacted PCSpecialist customer support, but was more curious if anyone else has had this done before, just so I have a precedence
I just want to add the laptop is fantastic, its a good build, sturdy, can't believe how quiet it is at full load, so I have no problem with the laptop its just those unreliable AMD cards causing me problems
Thanks in advance
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