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shogbert · Mar 2, 2008, 06:02 AM

I have built a new system recently, but I'm having trouble getting dual mornitors to work off the 3870 X2 card.

My setup:
2x 19" Samsung Syncmaster 910N (vga cables - not dvi)
Core 2 Quad 6600
Asus Maximus motherboard
4x1gb DDR2 800
2x 500Gb Samsung SATA Hard Drives
Windows XP 64-bit

My main use at the moment on this PC is for 3D engineering drawings, and 2 monitors would be really useful.
Whenever I try to enable the second monitor, I get a message saying "crossfire is currently enabled. Before you can enable an extended desktop you need to disable crossfire".
There is no crossfire section in the ati control centre though! I thought this card ran crossfire transparently to the operating system.
My driver version is 8.451.0.0 dated 20/12/2007. This seems old to me...

Anyone got any advice?
Cheers.

Mar 2, 2008, 06:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
shogbert DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2 System Specs	HD 3870 X2 dual monitor I have built a new system recently, but I'm having trouble getting dual mornitors to work off the 3870 X2 card. My setup: 2x 19" Samsung Syncmaster 910N (vga cables - not dvi) Core 2 Quad 6600 Asus Maximus motherboard 4x1gb DDR2 800 2x 500Gb Samsung SATA Hard Drives Windows XP 64-bit My main use at the moment on this PC is for 3D engineering drawings, and 2 monitors would be really useful. Whenever I try to enable the second monitor, I get a message saying "crossfire is currently enabled. Before you can enable an extended desktop you need to disable crossfire". There is no crossfire section in the ati control centre though! I thought this card ran crossfire transparently to the operating system. My driver version is 8.451.0.0 dated 20/12/2007. This seems old to me... Anyone got any advice? Cheers.