no longer an issue...

[OgNasty]

Sold it.

[Costia]

what are "regular ATI" ?
ATI is fabless, they dont make the cards/chips themselves

[OgNasty]

what are "ATI" ?
ATI is fabless, they dont make the cards/chips themselves

See the below picture or this link.

[Costia]

didn't know they sold reference cards commercially
afaik reference designs are made for testing by the company itself and are  not for mass production

[Costia]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies

As a major fabrication-less or fabless semiconductor company, ATI conducted research and development in-house and outsourced the manufacturing and assembly of its products.

they dont make their cards
they just put the sticker on them

[BCMan]

 Never seen reference ATI card sold in shops.

[Costia]

the one in the pic is a reference design card.
dont see a asus/xfx marking on it - assumed it was a reference card made for ATI and not mass production
and you said you had 2 of these..

[deepceleron]

At least the original post gives absolutely no information about the system hardware, ensuring that any responses are as uninformative as possible...

Nvidia SLI chipset motherboard?

[ssateneth]

probably a power issue. make sure your psu is up to par, and if you're using an excessive amount of gpus in 1 motherboard, consider using riser cables with powered molex