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6950 display crashing.

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Ok so i have an asus 6950 with a shader unlock applied. I installed it, everything was working under the safe 6950 bios enabled via the switch. Flipped it into 6970 mode, checked it out, and was having some issues in game, opened up CCC and my temps were in the 90's on the stock cooler. So i reseated the card twice now and my idle temps are in the high 40's mid 50's. Backplate is cool to the touch.

I thought it was an issue with the infamous ati drivers so i reinstalled windows, reinstalled the drivers (11.5 and 11.5b) and had no luck. Whenever i tried to open up anything other than explorer the window refused to draw and would crash the entire display. Flicked it back into 6970 mode and got artifacting and BSOD's, googled the BSOD error and came across the MSconfig memory set "fix". That bought me some more time in windows and could get other windows to draw, but eventually would bug out.

Reset my cmos and ran my system at full stock, no luck.

Uninstalled and removed all iterations of drivers on my system, uninstalled CCC and other affiliated ATI apps, reboot and installed drivers only. System is somewhat usable for a few minuets, before eventually locking up.

Any suggestions? If youre an nvidia fanboi and tell me that i shoulda bought nvidia, i will beat you over the head, not that i have anything against nvidia.

Ill pop my 6870 back in and run down to MC next week and buy a 6950 and see if its my card or my system. Im leaing towards the former at this point.
 
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The Sapphire 6950 REF are solid cards, mine is at 930/1450 unlocked with no vmod. Apparently its safer to run the 6950 BIOS then tweak the ram freq than to run a 6970 bios. people say that'll take life away from it.
 
Don't run a 6970 Bios, the memory is better on the 6970 and it can screw up the card permanently. Just unlock shaders with modified 6950 bios and overclock
 
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