This is a fresh Win 7 install with the 5800
Windows Media player crashes started happening from day one? Or after codec installs? Any kind of plugin that could be causing it? What does the event viewer say?
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This is a fresh Win 7 install with the 5800
9.10, 9.11
Are 9.12 beta out for Win 7 yet?
I haven't had a gray screen with my 5870, but I recently bought the LucasArts pack from Steam and JKII: Jedi Outcast is freezing/crashing after about 10 minutes or so of play. I get a message on the desktop about VPU recovery or something. Anyone else have this problem? I'm guessing it's some sort of driver problem?
Sometimes after a freeze or grey/black screen crash, when I reboot and go back into Windows, certain Windows services like networking, or sound, or windows explorer will start crashing, and then my aero interface will go away.
Anyone had that happen? I can't stand these drivers anymore
How come I can pass 50 runs of LinX and 10 hours of Prime95 blend multiple times no problem then? My system was rock solid under Vista with my GTX 285, none of this started happening until I got Win 7 and the 5870.
Also the minute I uninstall the ATI drivers, all my crashing goes away and does not return until I install the ATI drivers again. I let it run with just the Windows default VGA driver installed for a couple days and had ZERO problems. How do you explain that?
My issues arise exclusively when I attach a second, non eyefinity based monitor. I used to get the grey screens when using one monitor, that's gone away and it is as solid and reliable as can be when using one monitor, overclocked to 925/1275. Attach a second monitor and you can expect 3+ Bsods throughout the day, all completely unrelated, overclocked or not.
zero hardware support and zero use of the video cards power. Some users have already stated when they installed their 5870 they had to down clock the machine. Its such an easy thing to check its worth a shot. No stress program can promise 100% stability if you pass it. Have you ran memtest etc? You have services crashing.. this changes some things. Gamed for 4 hours today... still not a single crash.. clocked 950/1275 now.
What do you mean by zero hardware support and zero use of the video cards power? If I return the 5870 and get a GTX 285 and my problems disappear, without changing my CPU overclock, does that mean ATI just doesn't like my system?
If I can run my system overclocked and stable with no crashes with an Nvidia card, but not an AMD card. Then the problem is clearly the AMD card.
I think what he meant was that you don't get crashes with the windows drivers because the card isn't being fully supported or used in 3D mode. Idling at desktop isn't really a great test of system stability.
Welp I returned my 5870 and picked up a GTX 285 tonight, we'll see if the problems go away.
*Crossing Fingers* !
No offence buddy, but you did what typical n00b will do. First you got to check PSU amps and if they are less then 40A (dedicated to PCI-E connectors) then your PSU is no good for HD5870 overclocking. Other members are telling you to run CPU on stock speed and the main reason is that it uses juice too (well beyond 100W when overclocked to 4GHz). People are having problems with 2xHD5970 on Gygabyte Odin 1200W PSU.Welp I returned my 5870 and picked up a GTX 285 tonight, we'll see if the problems go away.
*Crossing Fingers* !
I was running my current CPU overclock with a GTX 285 on Vista since July with zero problems.
I then switched to a 5870 and ran it for a month under Vista with zero problems using the same CPU overclock. (Using the Cat driver off the CD that came with the card)
Then I switched to Win 7 and retuned my CPU overclock, until I could pass LinX and Prime95 blend consistently over and over under Win 7, since it's more demanding than Vista. I installed the Cat 9.10 WHQL drivers after that and from then on everything went to hell.
So that's why I'm so firm in my belief that it was the ATI drivers that were causing all my woes.
So far no crashes with the GTX 285
As for the crashing services thing with the video card, I've read numerous reports of people getting Windows Explorer.exe crashes with the ATI drivers, so maybe them crashing services isn't too far off either? Not sure
I forgot to add, some of my services crashes were preceeded by Catalyst center crashes
So you are proposing nearly 2 years old video card in it's EOL (not cost effective for Nvidia) over HD5870? What for, explorer.exe is crashing. What about GTX295? It is more relevant in comparison to HD5870.
Some advice to people who had their CPU overclocked : when using new 5 series video cards check your MB Bios settings and increase with 0.1V PCI-E voltage. Sometimes it helps when overclocking related problem occur.
So putting in the Nvidia card didn't stop the crashes, but what it has allowed me to see is what BSODs I'm getting, for whatever reason the 5870 wouldn't show or let me see a BSOD, it would just hard freeze to a black screen instead.
I tried running my system at stock speeds, still getting the crashes. This is the BSOD I'm getting a lot
"Bug check 0x50 usually occurs after the installation of faulty hardware or in the event of failure of installed hardware (usually related to defective RAM, be it main memory, L2 RAM cache, or video RAM).
Another common cause is the installation of a faulty system service.
Antivirus software can also trigger this error, as can a corrupted NTFS volume."
Which leads me to believe my RAM is bad =/ It's OCZ blade that uses the Elpidia chips, I got it before the big recall I believe.
It's the only thing I can think of! Going to go buy some Corsair from Fry's and see if my BSODs go away
I apologize for blaming ATI so much throughout this thread.