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Continual Blue screens after upgrade to 5970

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I have seen a load of people with this issue now but there seems to be no proper solution. I upgraded my 4890 to the 5970 and have had nothing but blue screen after blue screen when doing anything in normal windows activity, web surfing, unraring etc etc but games are generally ok.
I have set the 2d clock to 400/900 gpu/mem and i have even tried different voltages but no joy.

my specs are :
Q9550@ 3.6
8gb corsair dominator
Asus Rampage formula 48
1000w PSU
HAF 922 case
power cant be the issue?
any bit of hope would be nice, after spending over £500 on a graphics card i would like to be able to show it off withouy fear of it showing me up instead ha, but seriously this is really annoying.
thanks
 
IMHO
If I do a major component swap, I always do I clean reinstall with Windows...just in case.

Mabye try that later if still not worked out?
 
Culinia said:
IMHO
If I do a major component swap, I always do I clean reinstall with Windows...just in case.

Mabye try that later if still not worked out?
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That is not needed for A gfx card upgrade most of the time & certainly not from the the same brand.
 
What make PSU? a generic one might not be capable of sustained loads anything close to 1000watt - and a quad + 5970 is gonna need a bit of power.

EDIT: Tho if it works ok in games that would be a bit odd...
 
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yeah the powersupply is under a bit more strain particularly under load, so you might have a bit more vdrop than normal therefore affecting the stability of your overclocked system.....assuming its a decent brand power supply, might be able to get away with a few more volts.


its hard getting the PC stable than something ruins it :(
 
He says games are okay it just does it in 2D, surely powerplay related rather than PSU? if it was PSU his problems would be in games when both the CPU and GPU are under load.
 
Hi,

I've just upgraded to a 5970, Just as a bit of info, I am running the 10.3 beta's, they appear to work fine in all games. I tried the ATI overclock for the card, and even 10mhz extra caused the screen to flicker etc, so I put it all back at stock.

Also running a Q9550 at 3.6 (8 x 450)

The only issue I've had with BSoD is with BC2, where having Catalyst A.I enabled BSoD's whenever an attempt is made to load a game (single or multiplayer) - disabling Catalyst A.I allows it to work fine, although with a reduction of FPS sadly.

Hoping a driver update will fix this...
 
I had this same issue with my ASUS 5970 see here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18122522

I changed my 2D clock to 250core, 300mem and its been perfect since. Make sure you setup a profile via catalyst and also, when editing:

In windows go to: C:\Users\{yourusername}\AppData\Local\ATI\ACE\Profiles (you will need to have “show hidden files” turned on for this)

In the XML file, you will have to make sure you alter twice for both GPUs Core0,Core1 etc...
 
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