4870x2 Problem

[Juir]

I built my rig 3 days ago and everything worked perfectly no problems at all. Even on the first overclock I went from 3.16 to 3.94 Prime95 Blend 10 hours with no errors.

But everytime I shut off my PC completely and turn it back on there are 3 red LEDs on my 4870x2. I don't think there is anything wrong with the hardware though because im getting over 300FPS with the Counter-Strike Source video test and there is no stuttering etc but CSS isnt very demanding anyway. My power supply is good enough to handle it and the pins are in perfectly, I reconnected them many times. I never tried to reseat my graphics card though. I think it might not be in correctly because the blue little plastic piece is over the card, is it supposed to be like this?

I received only 52.4 FPS in the firefly graphics test on 3dmark06 with 1920x1200 and 8xAA.

8.9 catalyst drivers are all i have used so far, i just reinstalled them about 5 minutes ago but that didn't fix anything.

Crysis on Very High was only giving me 9 FPS for some reason. I think my GPU is staying at 507/500 even when 3d. I had Rivatuner and forced both to be 750/900 and this worked for a while. Worked as in it kept them at that setting, performance was still not the best. After reinstall drivers i have a different problem, one of them is running at 750/900 at the desktop and one is 507/500. I currently do not have rivatuner installed.

Any help would be appreciated

I have P5Q Pro motherboard, E8500 @ 3.94, Corsair 750TX, 4GB G.SKILL DDR2 1000, Vista 64 bit

[eagle_ST]

Try this, it can keep your clocks at whatever you set them too and its compatible with CCC: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=270486

Additional Comment:

Oh sorry i should have read your post better, I'd use drivercleaner pro and reinstall the 8.9 cats.
make sure riva tuner is completely uninstalled also.

[FiveSolas]

Originally Posted by Juir

I built my rig 3 days ago and everything worked perfectly no problems at all. Even on the first overclock I went from 3.16 to 3.94 Prime95 Blend 10 hours with no errors.

But everytime I shut off my PC completely and turn it back on there are 3 red LEDs on my 4870x2. I don't think there is anything wrong with the hardware though because im getting over 300FPS with the Counter-Strike Source video test and there is no stuttering etc but CSS isnt very demanding anyway. My power supply is good enough to handle it and the pins are in perfectly, I reconnected them many times. I never tried to reseat my graphics card though. I think it might not be in correctly because the blue little plastic piece is over the card, is it supposed to be like this?

I received only 52.4 FPS in the firefly graphics test on 3dmark06 with 1920x1200 and 8xAA.

8.9 catalyst drivers are all i have used so far, i just reinstalled them about 5 minutes ago but that didn't fix anything.

Crysis on Very High was only giving me 9 FPS for some reason. I think my GPU is staying at 507/500 even when 3d. I had Rivatuner and forced both to be 750/900 and this worked for a while. Worked as in it kept them at that setting, performance was still not the best. After reinstall drivers i have a different problem, one of them is running at 750/900 at the desktop and one is 507/500. I currently do not have rivatuner installed.

Any help would be appreciated

I have P5Q Pro motherboard, E8500 @ 3.94, Corsair 750TX, 4GB G.SKILL DDR2 1000, Vista 64 bit

What do your VGA temperatures look like? You can go to Catalyst center while you're in-game to see. HD 48XX series can be very, very hot if the fan speed isn't modified (although apparently catalyst 8.10 allows manual fan control)