HIS ATI 5970 Issue

System Specs:
i7 920 @ 2.66
P6X58D motherboard
G-Skill F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ (x6 2gig sticks, Triple Channel)
HIS ATI 5970 Graphics Card

I have been having an artifact issue with my graphics card. When I first installed the card I didnt use the disc, I installed the latest drivers online. Unfortunatley the drivers kept failing. The system would tell me every now and then "drivers failed but system has recovered."

I tried the drivers that came with the CD and that problem subsided, now Instead of the screen going blank and the drivers failing but recovering artifacts start appearing.

After a restart they go away.... they seem to occur after playing a video game or doing something GPU related.

Heres the picture of the artifact pattern:


What should I do?

It might be heat related, try speedfan or some temp program online

What psu?

While its cool that you are trying to figure out the problems yourself, i strongly suggest that thing gets sent in for RMA immediately. That never bodes well for the future of the card.

i had that issue yrs ago with a 3dfx voodoo5 64 mb card. damn i miss 3dfx....bad video card, replaced it never happened again.RMA...

Yup, I'd RMA that pricey biotch. Every time I've seen artifacting like that it was hardware related.

Regular driver problem on 5970. Just raise your 2d idle clock values. Easy to fix. No need to RMA. People before me don't have a clue what they are talking about. Sigh...

It's really simple. Just follow the instructions here, post number 10:

http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...hreadid=122942

It's REALLY easy to solve that annoying driver ''problem''. Just do a CCC profile with higher 2d clock settings. Raise your 2d clocks from 137/300 to 400/900, and you will never have that problem again. It has nothing to do with your card, your hardware, your fan, your idle temps, your Windows installation, Explorer etc...

My 5970 was doing exactly this (driver has recovered blah blah blah), and after raising my 2d clocks, I never had that problem again.

But be careful, those settings are for the 5870, not the 5970. Just change the good values. The want_0 are your 2d settings. You have to change CoreClockTarget and MemoryClocktarget for both cores.

So it needs to be like this for BOTH CORES. Those are the values I changed for my 5970 in bold.

<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="40000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="55000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="73500" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="90000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="101000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="101000" />

I did this for my 3 cores (5970+5870) and didn't have a single problem in the last 3 months.

Originally Posted by greasedneut

System Specs:
i7 920 @ 2.66
P6X58D motherboard
G-Skill F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ (x6 2gig sticks, Triple Channel)
HIS ATI 5970 Graphics Card

I have been having an artifact issue with my graphics card. When I first installed the card I didnt use the disc, I installed the latest drivers online. Unfortunatley the drivers kept failing. The system would tell me every now and then "drivers failed but system has recovered."

I tried the drivers that came with the CD and that problem subsided, now Instead of the screen going blank and the drivers failing but recovering artifacts start appearing.

After a restart they go away.... they seem to occur after playing a video game or doing something GPU related.

What should I do?

You have to RMA this card. This is how my GTX 280 died. The problem is going to get worse overtime. You need this videocard replaced immediately.

Originally Posted by LEVESQUE

Regular driver problem on 5970. Just raise your 2d idle clock values. Easy to fix. No need to RMA. People before me don't have a clue what they are talking about. Sigh...

It's really simple. Just follow the instructions here, post number 10:

http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...hreadid=122942

It's REALLY easy to solve that annoying driver ''problem''. Just do a CCC profile with higher 2d clock settings. Raise your 2d clocks from 137/300 to 400/900, and you will never have that problem again. It has nothing to do with your card, your hardware, your fan, your idle temps, your Windows installation, Explorer etc...

My 5970 was doing exactly this (driver has recovered blah blah blah), and after raising my 2d clocks, I never had that problem again.

But be careful, those settings are for the 5870, not the 5970. Just change the good values. The want_0 are your 2d settings. You have to change CoreClockTarget and MemoryClocktarget for both cores.

So it needs to be like this for BOTH CORES. Those are the values I changed for my 5970 in bold.

<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="40000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="55000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="73500" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="90000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="101000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="101000" />

I did this for my 3 cores (5970+5870) and didn't have a single problem in the last 3 months.

I do not have to resort to this, and I have a HIS 5970 myself.

I also dont have to do that with my HIS 5970's

Dont RMA it to HIS, make sure you take it back to your retailer. I rma'ed my 4870 back in the day to HIS and it took months to get back to me.

Yea I think the best thing for the performance of the card would be to RMA, although raising the clock values has fixed the issue there shouldn't be such an issue in the first place. Overclocking the 2d settings could as well cause problems in the future and as well degrading performance. RMA time.

Heres also HIS 5970 problem....http://forums.techpowerup.com/showth...light=his+5970


Ended up on Ebay...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Originally Posted by Ryan5508

I also dont have to do that with my HIS 5970's

I have to do this with my Sapphire 5970. Exact same issue. Very few fixes floating around (this is the first thread with the 5970 specific XML I've seen). I wonder if I should RMA mine? I'll never see it again, there's no extra stock.

Originally Posted by centvalny

Heres also HIS 5970 problem....http://forums.techpowerup.com/showth...light=his+5970


Ended up on Ebay...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...STRK:MEBIDX:IT

I kinda feel bad for the guy who ends up with it. I mean he can RMA it, but I would rather chew my own big toe off than deal with HIS again.