I have the exact same setup but I'm using the ASUS card. I too can confirm that the blinking is happening with the Accell adapter. Is it worth trying the update with the 'other' 5770? Or should another BIOS be released for this type of card?
I have checked my vBIOS version as you stated that the 'newer' 5770 cards (with the normal fan) allready had the latest version. I can indeed confirm that I had the following most recent vBIOS version (in my case from ASUS): VER012.013.000.001.034705
However, as direwolf stated, the problem was still there. Therefor I tried flashing my card the the latest ATI vBIOS version (so not ASUS specific), being VER012.014.000.001.034761. I had to use the '-f' (force) option to perform the flash, but luckily the card came back online.
Now, I can tell you that the 3rd display with the adapter is a lot more stable and causes much less flickering, but still is! Let's say it's workable, but not fully solved on my 5770.
I will try to contact ASUS about this, see if they could provide me with a newer version for their card. If you should have any more comments on this, I'd be happy to hear and try them out.
So I've been trying to play nice for the last 6 weeks, I bought a BizLink which did not work and returned it to Dell. I then bought an Accell adapter, and it was even worse (did not work at all before I updated BIOS, there after it just flickered), since returning to the reseller was a major issue I tried RMA'ing it, but surprise-surprise they say its 100% fine and passes all tests. This only means their in house testing is lacking and it you need to return one, you need to return it to the reseller as the company that produces them is not going to be of any help, or admit that their product is having compatibility issues at all.
so the guy that asked about the xfx 5870 bios situation, Did you ever try the xfx bios or did you use the bios on page 6? I just went through the entire 29 page thread because I am about to purchase a pair of 5870's from new egg. Have the manufacturers updated the bios's with the 5870's? I am scared to flash a bios on 400 dollar cards. I noticed alot of the issues in this thread are going back to early december.
Hey all, just been following this thread as I setup Eyefinity.
Miraculously my setup works with the Bizlink adapter via Dell. Ordered the adapter Monday got it Wednesday (with 2 day shipping) which was also shocking.
I am running: P6Tv2, 2xHiS 5850 (bios: VER012.011.000.006.034528), 3x Asus 24VW246, Corsair 850W PSU.
Connected the adapter out of the box to USB port on motherboard, no separate power supply and plugged it into the monitor and was good to go.
The only flaky behavior is on boot-up I have to turn the monitor with the adapter off and back on since it does not come back on automatically. Not sure if someone found a fix for this or not.
Before the flash the 3rd monitor was constantly tearing and going out completely. After the flash I see no tearing and the monitor hasn't gone down while playing. There have been a few times after waking the pc up from sleep that the 3rd monitor was non-responsive, but a quick reboot fixed it.
Before the flash the 3rd monitor was constantly tearing and going out completely. After the flash I see no tearing and the monitor hasn't gone down while playing. There have been a few times after waking the pc up from sleep that the 3rd monitor was non-responsive, but a quick reboot fixed it.
Not a 100% fix, but close enough for me.
I've used this for about a week now.
Cool I am going to install my 5870's on monday (cant wait) unfortunatly Instead of just buying a monitor that came with a built in display port I bought an active display port adapter and 2 more lcd's with out native display ports.. Just in case I have too ( crossing my fingers I wont ) flash my 5870 bios, I will use the one on page 6, but can anyone link me a thread or some quick directions on how to set up and perfrom a bios flash for a vga card??? I would much appreciate it I have spare cards lying around but i still dotn want to brick my 400 dollar card/s.
I am considering buying a 5970 for my eyfinity setup. I am currently using 3x Samsung 2494HM monitors at 1920 x 1080 resolutions. I am looking into purchasing either the Sapphire or Belkin active DP to DVI adapter.
From what I understand that there is an BIOS update for the 5800 series cards which fixes the Active DP to DVI flickering issue. I just wanted to know if other 5970 users are having issues using an Active DP to DVI adapter.
Okay so I just joined to reply, I am new to gaming and use my three monitors for music composing and image editing but hey ho, same problem. I have a PowerColor SCS3 HD5750 connected using three monitors two Lenovo 19"s and one Samsung Sync Master 932mw 19". One of the Lenovo's I am using a DVI to DP adapter from Sapphire.
In the last few days I have been reading every post in the subject, and I just ended up wanting to scream at Ati.
Here's a list of what I have done so far...
1, Changed around all monitors and cables.
2, Brought new cables.
3, Tried DP to my HDTV.
4, Tried different resolutions.
5, Updated my motherboard bios.
6, Changed motherboard bios settings.
7, Tried plugging adapter into USB hub.
8, Brought more powerful hub.
9, Looked for the right firmware for my card but could not find one.
10, Checked to see if it was getting too hot.
11, Brought a ton of cooling products (inc 1000w psu and 7 fans) and new case (card running 34c at idle)
12, Tried Under-clocking card.
13, Got sick of this and brought a disport monitor (DELL E1909WDD).
The issues I was having was, blinking off and on after 20 min's on the disport dvi to display port adaptor monitor, flickering on the dp & one dvi when using ati overdrive no matter what setting was used.
I will update you tomorrow night when the new monitor turns up. If it's fixed or not! I know I don't have have the greatest or the high rez setup but it proves that no matter what rez it still happens.
On the other hand if anyone else is using 19" monitors then, listen up! If this works then here's a link to ebay where I got my 19" disport monitor for £99 ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200425330549&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_5428wt_1073 ) six left. I been doing research into this and found that the DELL E1909WDD was used in one of Ati's "in depth look" pdf's link here ( http://www.amd.com/la/Documents/ATI_Eyefinity_Technology_Brief.pdf ). If you do a searchit show's in one of the picture's and it states they was using six DELL E1909WDD's. So it don't work this will be a fun email to write to Ati.
Okay the monitor turned up, matches up perfect with the Lenovos and not had one hickup :), very very happy and tested on.... COD World Of Warfare 2, Quake 3, Left For Dead 2 and not a flicker or a blink.
A very happy Chrisie!
P.S, Only one problem the extension cable did not turn up so pc on the floor. The cables are to find too but I got one from Amazon on the way tomorrow or Thursday.
I just wanted to tell people that my problem wasnt the bios update, and it wasnt the active display adapter. My problem I believe was 2 issues. 1.) was a bad display port connection on the graphics card itself. 2.) Some of the blinking was from the actual driver version 10.1, not sure about 9.12 and before. I switched out the video cards and put my primary card to the second slot and loaded up catalyst 10.2 and the blinking stopped. :cheers however after I tested some games in crossfire configuration I was sorely dissapointed at the performance/quality.. so I switched back to 10.1 and experianced some blinking. I would notice white/grey lines pop up then the monitor would go black. This only happend once every few minutes as opposed to several times a minute. So my blinking was caused by two different things. Debating on rma'ing my other card because of it.
It took a couple of weeks, but I finally got a reply from XFX on this issue. The response is that they do not have an updated BIOS for my 5770. :?:
My 5770 has the bios version 012.013.000.001.034705, of which I know there are later versions. I guess I'll have to try the ATi version since XFX don't seem able to help.
So, I flashed my bios with the bios on page 6. I then used a DP-VGA adapter for a while that was working decently, but I would still see a monitor flicker once every 20 minutes or so. I decided to order the bizlink DP-DVI adapter from Dell. I installed it last night and my flickering actually got massively worse... So, I'm going to be switching it back to the VGA adapter for now, but what should I do to fix all my problems? Can anyone give me ideas?
After doing some more research I realized that I screwed up my BIOS flash. I got Error 0FL01 and didn't realize it. I have spent the last 2 hours trying to perform the flash properly but I can't seem to get around the error code. I've used atiflash and flashrom. I've named the file several different short names. I've changed it from .bin to .rom and vice versa. I've used all sorts of combinations of codes like atiflash -f - p 0 ati.bin, atiflash -p 0 ati.bin -f, flashrom -f -p 0 ati.rom
All sorts of combinations and I can't get the bios update to take. Anyone who got the new bios on their 5870 care to share some feedback? I have an ASUS 5870 btw.
