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7xxx series, how many of you suffer this problem?

PanMaster said:
It's not flash.

It crashed this evening while viewing this forum which has no flash in IE9.

Random flickering and minor but noticeable artifacting occurs in games such as Crysis and Mass Effect such as flashing white lines, squares, foggy red areas, stuttering, all of which wasn't there before on a ATi 5870.

I've had at least 2 or 3 crashes during boot-up too.
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Def. sounds like a hardware problem to me - RMA time?
 
I got grey screen thing when playing with ln2 bios, pushed card too hard???? Would never boot again on that bios until i did a fresh install(windows), did not try safe mode though, must have screwed the driver???

Did core first to max then backed off a bit, was only when i pushed memory that it did this.
 
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I've got hd7870 from sapphire,oc using catystal,my driver is 12,6.OC it to 1175 and 1375.
Got screens grey,red,black(when doing test in benchmark,3dmark11 extreme most of the time) with vertical strips.Put clocks back to 1000 and 1200,and not much of the screens then,once in diablo 3 and browsing web.
card will go back to shop in few weeks time,planing on getting hd7950,but might pay extra and get gtx670 if amd won't sort out drivers till october.
when there will be more gtx670 4gig versions in sell?I've seen kf2 and evga so far,when gigabyte will realse 4gig version or asuss?400£ for 4gig at the moment is to much,I would rather buy msi ligh. hd7970 for that.
for now I just wait and see till october

seen one review of gigabyte version of hd7870 and with changing in catystal for +20% voltage they got 1220 and 1450 stable,mine got screen on 1175 and 1375,weak card or it's more fault of the drivers?
 
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Mine goes to 1208 core @1280 mv and mem 1850 @ max volts, this is stable, just.
Only when pushed mem to 1870 do i get the stripey grey screen. And i do not get this on the normal bios, just driver crash
 
Should try a reformat fresh windows install i had this problem before i recently got a ssd 5770 + latest drivers + firefox + flash random crashes hasnt happened since i freshly installed win7 to a ssd using exact same setup software wise
 
Thanks for the replies. I see some of you are talking about problems in-game though with artifacting due to overclocking. I am talking about just running the card at stock and crashing when web browsing or for me, it can even happen when just on the desktop.

I see a lot of people just say "well use 12.4 or older" like that makes it ok.. I can live with the newer versions being unstable if there was a 'fix' on the way but to my knowledge ATI haven't even acknowledged there is a problem? Please tell me if I am wrong. I am tempted to send the card back (only had it a few days) and get a more expensive nvidia card as I don't want to be stuck with a card with which I can't update the drivers. I don't want to though, the card does perform great in games
 
If its crashing in your browser just turn hardware acceleration off in options, i had the same problem until i turned it off.
It also speed up my browser.
Using 12.3 Oc 1000/1300 Sapphire 7850.

Get a life Madman before you end up being reported for trolling, you've added nothing usefull to the thread with any of your post.
Stop being a tool searching for a reaction!
 
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Sorry to bump this thread up, but has anyone found a solution to this grey screen of death problem?

At least so that we can use the latest drivers?

I'm currently getting crashes everytime I try to run any 3d game (except UT99 :/) - and even if I try to get aero to run in windows
 
Have you tried 12.9 betas ? they seem pretty solid to me btw how old is the psu Enermax Liberty 620w
power supplies do degrade over the years like horsepower drops in cars they cant output as much power not saying it is that but if you can test it on another power supply would rule it out other than that I'd say try 12.9 betas http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18445645&highlight=betas

express uninstall the drivers then reboot
then download and run driver sweeper http://www.guru3d.com/files_get/guru3d_driver_sweeper_(no_installer),7.html tick AMD display then hit clean then reboot
now install 12.9 betas and see if the same happens, other than this you can look in to changing the 2d profile or changing the cables try a gpu to molex connector instead of pci-e cables straight to psu
 
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Tried the 12.9 beta - same problem.

I tried really downclocking the core/mem to a small amount above their 2d profile values (310/170 with 5% extra on the voltage just to be sure) and ran the win7 aero assessment (stupid thing, but it seems guaranteed to crash and is quick to do). It ran fine - I watched the clocks go up in GPUZ as well as the voltages. Strangely it then jumped to 1000/1200 during some encoding work. It still finished fine.

I then tried it back at stock values but still with 5% extra voltage.. crashed instantly. Have also tried it with 500/500 and it got about half way then crashed. I noticed that the 12V in GPUZ dropped a little, from say 11.84 to 11.79 - not a huge variation.

The enermax was a replacement from an RMA in 2009, as far as I remember it was brand new and sealed when I got it. I've not got any other PSUs to try, but it runs my old 8800GTX fine and that takes 2 PCI-E connectors, and I think draws a fairly similar amount of power.

Any other suggestions or have I just got a duff card? :/ - It's a brand new Sapphire 7870 Ghz 2gb
 
12.3 actually started giving me problems where it would sometimes crash when the monitors are asleep. I thought it was a CPU overclock problem when the BIOS started complaining the overclock failed after reset... even on stock speeds.

12.8 seems to have solved it. Now it all seems stable... for now.
 
I have a problem with 3d crashes with my 7850 but while researching a fix I saw something about upping the idle 2d clocks using a manually edited ccc profile to fix browser crashes etc. can't remember full details but its out there.
 
ATI/AMD have long had problems with hardware accelerated surfaces and 2D/desktop clocks (and some related issues with memory switching) causing these kind of issues - usually disabling hardware acceleration in the browser/flash fixes it but some browsers now seem to use hardware acceleration for certain elements or as an underlying rendering engine even with full hardware acceleration disabled so you might want to try a different browser and look at what media player(s) and codec packs your using.
 
I'm getting crashes when running pretty much any 3D game as well as instability even loading windows. It happens in Linux too :/
 
Try forcing constant voltage in a program like MSI afterburner, this should prevent the grey screen. I've found that you can induce this on other AMD cards by raising the memory frequency too high. I've had this happen on a 5450 and a 6850. The issue is probably as people have been saying whereby the clocks are changing but the voltage does not keep up. I noticed the new drivers seem to be quicker to switch to a lower power state.
 
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