HD6870 Issues

[Yggdrazil]

Hello all, I love you!

I recently bought a Saphire Radeon HD6870, but am having problems with it.

I am running Windows 7, 64Bit. I keep getting the "Display driver has temporarily stopped working, windows has resolved the problem" message after a brief (20 second) screen lock up, the second DVI port wont work, and the fan sounds like a jet engine. Should I Return it or just get a different card if I don't like the noise?

I have updated the drivers to the latest version.
Any other suggestions on how to reduce the noise if I get the same card again?

 

[DOOMHAMMA]

I have a 5850 and my card sounds normal (quiet) and will get this error too, but the driver recovers in about 3-4 seconds. Real pain in the ass. Was using the latest drivers, and the ones before that, might rollback to 10-9, instead of 11-3, because this crap is annoying. Right?
Anyone know how to fix it and keep latest drivers?

 

[Revdarian]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1605246

Display driver yadda yadda = timeout error.

Try the fix described there, with the proper voltage//core//mem numbers for your 6870.

Recommendation, your new iddle speed can be around ~400mhz, what should be higher is your iddle memory speed (in my case i set it to the standard non overclocked 3d speed, 1000mhz)


edit to add:

this is how the .xml looks at the moment for my 6850 directcu 1st revision (there is a second revision around so i say it just in case):


<Profile>
<Caste name="Graphics">
<Groups>
<Group name="Overdrive5">
<Feature name="TimeUnlocked" />
<Feature name="OverclockEnabled">
<Property name="OverclockEnabledProperty" value="True" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="AutoTuneSupport" />
<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="40000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="60000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="80000" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="PowerControl_0">
<Property name="Want" value="0" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="115000" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="CoreVoltageTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="950" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="1100" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="1150" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryVoltageTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="0" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="0" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="0" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="FanSpeedProtocol_0">
<Property name="FanSpeedProtocolProperty" value="Percent" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="FanSpeedAlgorithm_0">
<Property name="FanSpeedAlgorithm" value="Automatic" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="FanSpeedRPMTarget_0">
<Property name="Want" value="0" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="FanSpeedPercentTarget_0">
<Property name="Want" value="50" />
</Feature>
</Group>
</Groups>
<Adapter name="PCI_VEN_1002&amp;DEV_6739&amp;SUBSYS_03AA1043&amp;REV_00_4&amp;214483CE&amp;0&amp;0008A">
<Aspect name="Overdrive5" />
</Adapter>
</Caste>
</Profile>