Man, is it so difficult to simply post a pic of the card/s or screenies of the control panel? You are probably the first person in India to get himself the X1800XT, obviously as icecoolz said we are curious about it man, did I say I doubted you anywhere? First you said you are running the cards in crossfire, now you say the cards are not being run in crossfire. Why did your brother who works at ATI send you two cards, one of which was not a master card, obviously he would know that the X1800 series can be run in crossfire only with the master card, which is not the case with the X1600 and X1300 series of cards. Also ask him not to take back the second card, he could sell it here for a small fortune, and I am sure you will find atleast a few people who might be ready to buy the second card.
Earlier you said you have an ATi Express 200G based motherboard, which incidentally has only one PCie 16X slot, now suddenly you say you have the Asus A8R-MVP motherboard which supports crossfire. Now this is getting confusing, let me ask you some simple questions, please if you don't mind -
a) Do you have the ATi Express 200G based motherboard OR the ASUS A8R-MVP OR both...infact has the ASUS Mobo even been released or did you brother send that too ?
b) Have you installed either one of the cards on either one of the motherboards?
Please clarify the above dude, seriously awaiting your reply or your brothers reply on the 24th.