P67a gd65 cross fire problem (Reworded)

I attempting to crossfire two amd 6950's.  One is a sapphire, the other asus.  When I connect both of them and power on, there is no signal to the monitors.  I tried using one or the other cards but still no signal.  Then I removed the sapphire card and powered on.  There was a loud continuous beep.  It wasn't periodic like beep beep beep.  It was like beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep but didn't stop until i turned it off.  I then reinstalled the sapphire card and removed the asus card, and the problem stopped and was able to get a signal to my monitors.
p67a gd65 motherboard
corsair 850w power supply
i7 2600k processor
corsair dominator 1666 4gb sticks X2

Quote from: nefandusx on 12-December-11, 06:30:07
When I remove the crossfire configuration and only use my original card,  everything works.  When I remove my original card and install the new card then there is a loud continuous beeeeeeeeeep that doesnt stop until I remove power.  Any ideas?
Agree with HU16E. Problem is pretty obvious here.

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    Thanks for your replies,
    Monte
    Frankly, I can understand your frustrations on the problem but it is not fair to judge a brand by looking at the number of complains in a forum. I can guarantee you, there are more RMAs out there from all other manufacturers even before an user even knows that a Forum ever exist for them to post for enquiry and most of them aren't an IT engineer or hardware engineer by self.
    If you want to compare, I have also been in this industry for more than 15 years and I have many DOA boards from other manufacturers as well and DOAs after RMAs are common to me. When you handle thousands of PCs, laptops and mainframes, such things are really common.
    Back to your problem. Maybe I didn't make it clear on how I want to describe on my previous post for your issue in words. I am referring to having a chance to let the system boot into BIOS or past BIOS after multiple times of rebooting, then you can try to flash the BIOS. This is also not uncommon as I have encountered systems which are problematic but are able to boot into Windows after 15 to 20 times of infinite reboots by itself.
    How about processor? Tested it in another system yet? Or is this another unless suggestion to you?

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