Brand new 5770/driver issues :(

[Slashiem]

Hi,
Recently brought a new ATI Sapphire 5770, yay along with a new system.

Got everything setup correctly and was going well.

Until the installation of ATi drivers, they installed fine and asked to reboot and sure enough i did, however booting back in i got a BSOD just after the windows logo with this:

"atikmpag.sys"

being displayed as the culprit of the problem.

To get back into normal operating system i have to go into safe mode, uninstall the drivers from device manager and then that allows me to get into windows 7 normally.

I have tried several different 10.2 suites (download sources), once it allowed me to get into W7 normally but was dead slow graphically.
I have also tried the 10.3a driver and again no luck just a the same BSOD.

Some initial googleing shows it is a hardware error, but the RAM is fine and also the same with the hard drive this just leaves the GPU.

Also i dont know if this is normal without the drivers, it says it is "Standard VGA Display Output" or something similar in device manager. In cpu-z it says it is a 5770 and GPU-z shows "Standard VGA Display Output" but has all the info about the card listed.

Can anyone shed some light on this frustrating problem?

Or is it RMA time?

Thanks.

 

[3dcandy]

this is a very general error and indicates a multitude of faults including cpu, memory, overclock and bad windows installation...

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=104677

 

[rolypolyman]

.net version up to date and what was that other thing, eh, CC+ or Vc+, remember reading something about those files being missing and causing problems. May be way off the mark there, not sure.

 

[Slashiem]

.net version up to date and what was that other thing, eh, CC+ or Vc+, remember reading something about those files being missing and causing problems. May be way off the mark there, not sure.

Yeah i thougth about that and couldnth find any info about it and during installation of the drivers it installs some other software so i would rule that out.

this is a very general error and indicates a multitude of faults including cpu, memory, overclock and bad windows installation...

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=104677

I have read through that, but there is no problems with the CPU and isnt even overclocked, memory i have tried each stick on their own and done memtest on them.
I have also reformatted 3 times with a verfied windows 7 disk.

grr i hate this problem



Update: Taken out the 5770 and put a Nvidia 880gts 320MB and working faultless currently so looks like hard ware issue and RMA time.