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Powercolor HD 4830....makes baby jesus cry :(

james.miller

james.miller

james.miller

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Hi guys!


I could do with some help here. I recently bought a powercolor 4830 from OCUK and for the life of me i cant get the damn thing stable. This is on a clean vista install, with the cat 8.10's (the 8.12's are a no go with my card it seems!) and im getting nothing but random bluescreens. Im using an ip35pro and a be quiet! 500w psu which is more than up to the task but nope, nothing but problems. I can be playing games, watchin a film (trying to) or just listening to much and it will reboot without warning.

When it works, its exceptionally good - fast, quiet and doesnt top 50c load and there's no graphical corruption to be seen.

If you guys could offer me any advice id be most greatful, i really dont want to have to send this card back lol
 
sure,

vista 32 home premium
ip35pro
4gb pc6400 geil
e2160 c2d @ stock w/ mini ninja cooler
2x500gb drives, 1xtb drive, all sata
1x pio bluray rom, 1x nec dvd writer, all sata
be quite! 500w psu

its fine with my backup 7300gt, unfortunately i don have my 8800gtx anymore to or a spare psu to rule out the be quiet unit. I havent tried the 8.11's but tbh i dont think it'll make much difference if the card pc isnt stable with the cd drivers it shipped with.
 
Try the 8.11's, I know it does not seem like it would make any difference but you never know!, I've had problems with a certain driver and changing to another sorted it.

If the problem persists with 8.11's then I'd say it is a faulty GPU tbh.
 
Longshot James but when I moved back to ATi 4850s it introduced a lot of bluescreens for me and driver instability.

I spent a while cursing at ATi and the cards but the problem was fixed with A) bios upgrade and B) upping vcore (I was supplying the Q6600 with vcore way below the VID at 3.2Ghz).

THe same thing happened to my girlfriend's machine with a 2600Pro, and it was because I assumed the E2180 in there only needed 1.25V overclocked...it's rated at 1.35V :P
 
try running with bare minimum components...keep an eye on temps of cpu too.
have u tried doing a fresh install of windows incase windows files have become corrupt?

even though it does sound like a driver problem...i had a similar problem and it turned out to be sound card drivers.

shame u cant test the power pack tho ...
 
ive installed windows more than once lol, yes.

i just flashed the latest ip35pro bios from dos and now it wont boot. this is fun lol, ill have to have a go at it on saturday. with a hammer.


:/
 
If its blue screaning at boot up i had a similar problem with my 4850's i managed to find a sollution to my problem, i also have the same issuse of sum drivers just didnt work full stop but this got them to.

what i managed to find as a fix to my problem was to.

1)boot into safe mode
2)use driver sweeper to eat the ATI drivers
3)reboot then uninstall the reminantes of the ati drivers normaly from the control pannel
4)reboot, install ATI drivers again, DO NOT reboot at end of install
5)click on start menu and type services into search box, press return.
6)On the list of services there should be one called ATI external event utility DISABLE IT!
7)Reboot, cross fingers and hope.

I hope this works for you this is the only way i can get my card drivers to work with out some blue screen fun.

-sdavlaws-
 
If it's not too late to return it, check out the 4670, uses next to no power, would be awesome for an HTPC - I say this because your spec looks like an HTPC ;)
 
Sounds definatly faulty. My luck with computers is extremely bad, i've bought 1 Motherboard, 1 Graphics Card from Overclockers. both which were faulty :mad:
 
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