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oh here we go BSOD !!!! 5870

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It was too good to be true
just managed to get half a lap on dirt2 before a bsod, also happened this morning when on the net.
using the 10.3 previews, at the mo
are 5870 prone to a bsod with various driver types ?
 
q9650 @ 3.6
6 gig ocz platinum 8500

no bsod for 5 month with my 295 prior to today, so its gotta be ati related
 
Well it could be your PC related, as I and others have no problem with the 5870, of course there could be a driver issue coming from the 295, maybe a OS reinstall might help things.
 
magicroundabout said:
so is it a fresh install on an SSD or did you use driver sweeper?
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fresh install of win 7
nvidia drivers were on for a day then the ati card arrived

the 10.2 have a massive fps drop compared to the 10.3 previews, just ran unigine heaven and theres like 23 fps in it
 
I love how the only component you've changed is the graphics card and people start blaming the rest of your system. :D

Try sticking your CPU to stock and see if it still happens, I've seen others have problems since swapping to the 5870/5970 from an nvidia card. Seems to upset some systems overclocks which were running 'stable' previously.

EDIT- Could check PSU, what you got?
 
rounddodger said:
I love how the only component you've changed is the graphics card and people start blaming the rest of your system. :D
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i know, its nothing to do with anything else, just the card, like ive mentioned it ran faultless for 6+months with nvidia
corsair tx750 psu
 
For the sake of argument, why not jsut run everything at stock for a bit and see if you get any blue screens? It won't hurt you, and will eliminate the OC as the issue, rather than making assumptions.

Whether it was running fine with the Nvidia card for 6 months or not is irrelevant - changing the card, changes the power usage of the system.

And as someone suggested earlier - use the official drivers and not betas.
 
rounddodger said:
I love how the only component you've changed is the graphics card and people start blaming the rest of your system. :D

Try sticking your CPU to stock and see if it still happens, I've seen others have problems since swapping to the 5870/5970 from an nvidia card. Seems to upset some systems overclocks which were running 'stable' previously.
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Sorry but your statment is wrong. Changing a gpu could cause rest of system to crash. I wont list all possibilities but just 1 which will make you realise how wrong your statement was.

system with 350w PSU running an ati 1900 gpu. Runs fine for a year.

Insert an ati 5970 into system. System wont run.

Are you going to blame the gfx card for that or simple realise its the rest of teh system at fault?

Yes simple answer psu has not enough power.. So my point is it could be down to something else in the system and not just the gpu at fault.

EDIT : on the subject. did you install the sound drivers in the ati instilation and do you have another sound card present. I have come accross so many times the onboard sound of the ati cards causing conflict with creative cards etc.
 
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well ive just played dirt for 30 mins now with no bsod, so im thinking its driver related.

elf.....what your saying is abit extreme, your never going to run your the example you gave with that setup, thus what your saying makes no sense.

its not the cpu, ram, psu, its the card / driver combo
i will restore cpu oc back to stock tho and see if anything else happens
 
userunknown said:
fresh install of win 7
nvidia drivers were on for a day then the ati card arrived

the 10.2 have a massive fps drop compared to the 10.3 previews, just ran unigine heaven and theres like 23 fps in it
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If win 7 was on there for a day with the nvidia drivers its not a fresh install dude ;) simple as.

Nvidia and ATI drivers can cause issues with each other, also vice versa.

Also as others have said driver sweeper doesnt always play nice with win 7
 
rancid_elf said:
EDIT : on the subject. did you install the sound drivers in the ati instilation and do you have another sound card present. I have come accross so many times the onboard sound of the ati cards causing conflict with creative cards etc.
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onboard sound ? in the ati card ? now im confused lol

i have a creative xfi extreme gamer sound card if that helps ?
 
Not saying it may not cause a conflict for others but I have an XF-I extreme music sound card and I have no problems with having the ATI audio driver installed and the device enabled, so it's not a global problem.
 
MIght be an indea to remove the creative card from the machine and run it for 30 minutes to test. If you still get crashes then you can eliminate the sound.

When ever I get problems like this thats the 1st thing I always do. Remove everything form the machine and test the card. Its rarer nowadays to get hardware conflicts but its not unknown.

Also my final test before deciding the card is faulty is to remove all otehr hardware.

Set machine to run at stock settings for CPU, Memory etc.

Reinstall a clean windows..

Install latest chipset Drivers ( A MUST )

Install latest OFFICIAL released drivers from Ati.

Run 3-4 different gfx benchmarking programs or games.

If crash happens then I RMA card.

EDIT : in fact that is exactly what I have been doing over last weekend and only today just recieved back a new 5970 from a faulty one I had :)
 
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