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5xxx and the Blue/White SOD

Im thinking its the QPI. Try setting it to the lowest speed available and giving it 1.25V and see if that gets it stable.
 
I got this last night with my 5870. I overclocked it in ATI Overdrive on Wednesday with the overclock set at 900/1300 and decided to play some Dirt 2, everything was fine that night and i was regularly checking my temperature to make sure it was below 75c (despite it did hit 82c, which i wasn't happy about). Anyway, long story cut short, nothing failed that evening until last night.

I decided to play Dirt 2 again and two laps into my race the blue screen of death greeted me with open arms. I was quite ****ed at the fact it had happened, but i simply reset the computer and it booted up fine. Once i got onto the desktop, i lobbed it back to default settings and went on Dirt 2 again and it was absolutley fine, which means my card was most likely hitting dodgey temperatures (i didn't check my card temperatures when playing last night) and the previous night kind of led this as a suspicion considering it hit 82c.

So one of the solutions is temperatures, but at stock, i doubt you would go over the limit. Another is ATI HD Audio which you may want to disable, a Windows 7 update right after you install new drivers apparently causes problems (check it the next time you install your drivers, Windows 7 should prompt an update to take place), a BIOS update for both your motherboard and your graphics card apparently has worked, but i dislike doing BIOS updates, other than that i'm not sure.
 
That's why there's so many possible fixes for it, there's lots of possible causes. The SSOD is just a BSOD in Win7, I reckon.
 
i've been having the same problem with my 5870 for the last month. the computer will just freeze up with the "SSOD" but its happened so often its completely screwed up my system, files missing from having so many reboots and suddenly i can't run any exe files. i'm hoping catalyst 10.1 will sort them out, its being released next week (early i hope). so my plan is to stop the freeze ups then reinstall windows. i can't do that now cos i get a few mins into windows repair and the computer locks up!

If that doesn't solve it i think i'll RMA the card or maybe try and get overclockers to replace it - no point having a ****-hot system which can only be run for 5 mins at a time before it freezes

Really disappointed with ATI over this problem - so many forums have people complaining about it and ATI wont address the problem! Should've stuck with Nvidia! ATI experience so far : http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/images/icons/icon13.gif
 
'Wes said:
I got this last night with my 5870. I overclocked it in ATI Overdrive on Wednesday with the overclock set at 900/1300 and decided to play some Dirt 2, everything was fine that night and i was regularly checking my temperature to make sure it was below 75c (despite it did hit 82c, which i wasn't happy about). Anyway, long story cut short, nothing failed that evening until last night.

I decided to play Dirt 2 again and two laps into my race the blue screen of death greeted me with open arms. I was quite ****ed at the fact it had happened, but i simply reset the computer and it booted up fine. Once i got onto the desktop, i lobbed it back to default settings and went on Dirt 2 again and it was absolutley fine, which means my card was most likely hitting dodgey temperatures (i didn't check my card temperatures when playing last night) and the previous night kind of led this as a suspicion considering it hit 82c.
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It's not the temperature it's a lack of voltage, if you use something like MSI Afterburner to bump up the GPU voltage your 5870 will be stable at 900Mhz core.
 
Yeah, i checked it out last night in Afterburner but there's a problem, i have no idea what the max voltage for a 5870 is, so i don't know whether i'm over volting or not.
 
'Wes said:
Yeah, i checked it out last night in Afterburner but there's a problem, i have no idea what the max voltage for a 5870 is, so i don't know whether i'm over volting or not.
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Some people are running 1300-1400mv with watercooling :eek:, with the stock cooler I'd be incline to stay below 1200mv (stock voltage is 1125mv I think).
 
mmj_uk said:
Some people are running 1300-1400mv with watercooling :eek:, with the stock cooler I'd be incline to stay below 1200mv (stock voltage is 1125mv I think).
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It appears that way from reading other forums, some are saying 1.15v at 900/1300 is 100% stable in all games.
 
I'm having the same problem with my boys 5770 with Vista 64. He can't play his WOW it crashes with ether a blank screen or the SSOD requiring a forced restart. The system is all running at stock and the 5770 hasn't been overclocked and runs surprisingly cool.

This is a new i5 build powered buy a 700w OCZ modstream.

I'm pinning my hopes on a driver fix for this problem, and soon! I'll wait for the 10.1 driver if that doesn't fix it, RMA time and back to NVIDIA.

This has been going on for to long we are both pi**ed, me because I built it for him and him because he can't play games on his new PC.

Sort it ATI or be prepared for the tsunami of RMAs
 
i've started getting this in the last week, stock Sapphire 5870 from the 1st batch on release day. 3 Light Grey Screens of death in < 7 days. Nothings really changed at my end , so no idea why its started happening. Win7 64bit

Arent running the card o'cd or any voltage mods, stock bios and its happened in Eyefinity and Single screen.

I'm running afterburner for the temp monitoring and have a more aggresive auto fan adjust that keeps the temps always under 75 degrees, so i dont believe its at all temp related. Last nights crash was in Windows Desktop 2d mode and the card had totally underclocked the mem / core etc, temps right down in the 50's , but i did click on Eve client which would bump it into 3d, which may well point towards the voltage issues people have mentioned

I see a number of people in the ATI forum thread have RMA'd but i'll give it a little longer to see if this truly is a windows or driver issue.
 
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Im also getting this with my newly purchased 5870. From the many threads on the issue there doesn't appear to be any consensus on the cause or solution.

Hopefully ATI look into this and release some new drivers/bios that fix the problem.
 
I initially got the SSoD on my 5770 running at stock speeds & voltage, but I can't recall it happening since installing the 9.12 drivers. I do however get random CTD's in some games which I'm pretty sure are graphics driver related. I'm hoping the 10.1 drivers will sort this out.
 
neil473 said:
i've started getting this in the last week, stock Sapphire 5870 from the 1st batch on release day. 3 Light Grey Screens of death in < 7 days. Nothings really changed at my end , so no idea why its started happening. Win7 64bit

Arent running the card o'cd or any voltage mods, stock bios and its happened in Eyefinity and Single screen.
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What about the rest of the system, any other overclocks?
 
The only way for me to get rid of the SSod on my Powercolour 5870 was to increase the voltage on the GPU to 1.2 @ stock speeds using afterburner. I haven't even attempted to OC it although the CPU, an EE 965, is overclocked to 4Ghz and the system had been completely stable with this OC and a 280 GTX for nearly a year. I have been in contact with ATI support and they are telling me that 'hopefully' the next driver update, 10.1, will fix the problem.
 
So we should wait till next week for the 10.1 Catalyst drivers before proceeding with further support options?
 
Well, mine is just an overclock issue, most likely to do with the voltage, but if everyone else is having problems without overclocking, then wait till the next driver update.
 
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