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yet more ati woes i wish nvidia would sort themselves out and hurry up with something

I was getting this and it turned out that it was due to an unstable overclock, not the 5850 (which was at stock at the time). Even thought it was apparently prime stable, lowering the fsb was the only thing that stopped it happening in games.

I have considered that my PSU may be causing problems though. I can overclock the core of my 5850 no problem and the memory too but only separately, not together. Also, the CPU overclock was stable before so I reckon I could have a dying PSU.

I wouldn't blame the card being faulty unless it does it at stock, with all other components at stock as well.
 
If my system was overclocked in anyway i would accept this as the probable cause however the system is totally stock as is the card, it just bugs me that it did it with my 5850 and now 5770 yet worked perfectly with a 250 and 285 nvidia, the way i see it it can only be down to the drivers which is a shame as when it works there nice cards
 
start with linx linpack, see if you can do the 20 pass, just remeber to right click it and run as administrator as if you dont it wont start
 
considering the fact that your getting the same erro, id imagine its the physical memory on your machine that is causing the problem or the motherboard. ive had this issue before and after changing memory it didnt come back.
 
Uninstall your drivers and then reinstal them but make sure you DO NOT install the audio drivers that come with the ati driver package.

I have seen this on a couple of friends pc's and it was down to creative audio drivers and ati audio drivers conflicting.
 
I have never installed the ati do audio driver and i have never had a single problem with my 5870 although many have so maybe there is a problem with the audio with ati. Other then that i would run occt and just make sure won't hurt and will at least rule out system instability :). I usually run it for 24 hours if my system passes that i am confident it is ok have run prime for 24 hours before passing fine run it for a few hours more and it failed havn't much confidence in prime as a stability tester though i know many swear by it personal choice and all that :).
 
Hi ,just wanted to add my experience with this issue.

Basically , I have seen this issue on Windows 7 using a 2400XT radeon card, the system was Overlocked when it 1st happend but the PCI-x was locked at 100Mhz so I dropped the OC of everything stock. And it happend randomly a couple of times since. Also the system was using onboard sound so the X-FI sound card theroy doesn't stand here.

This was using the Windows 7 built in ATI driver, i never tried the 9.12's It was my Mums system so to ensure reliability I popped in an Nvidia GF210 and needless to say it's rock solid.

Personally I have 2 4870's in CFX and 1 4650 in a media center all running 9.12's and Windows 7. So I am an ATI man.The 2 4870's are in an OC'ed rig and always have been and touch wood I have had no issues like you have shown.

But my point is even with an old 2400 this issue occurs damn wierd and really anoying for people with new 5 series cards..!
 
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SfnX said:
considering the fact that your getting the same erro, id imagine its the physical memory on your machine that is causing the problem or the motherboard. ive had this issue before and after changing memory it didnt come back.
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Ive changed, board cpu and memory since the problems with my 5850.....
 
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