6950 Blue Screen

UrbanSHark · 14 Jan 2011 at 21:29

Hi everyone

I have recently built a new pc and keep getting a blue screen/restart after playing games. First I thought it was the motherboard, so I sent that back to OCUK and got a replacement. Not sure what is causing this?? possibility that the graphics card is faulty??. Hoping new graphics drivers will fix this as I heard at the mo AMD/CCC 10.12 dont support HD 6950.

Peoples ideas would greatly be appreciated

Thanks

Spec -

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition 3.20GHz
Corsair Hydro H50-1
Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H AMD 880G
OCZ Gold 8GB DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5
Battle 850W Dual Rail High Efficiency Modular Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache
Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache
Samsung SpinPoint F3 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache
Windows 7 64bit

b_birak · 14 Jan 2011 at 21:37

Is it after certain games or 1 particular game. Have you tried looking in the event viewer for any clues?

Azuse05 · 14 Jan 2011 at 22:28

10.10 are the only ones you can run on that card. The driver specifically for the 69** cards is 11.1, being lunched this month, just sightly later than the card by what, 6 weeks? :-/

Oh and bsod is one of the fixes, yeh, they knew it was happening when those were launched

Cleeecooo · 15 Jan 2011 at 00:34

If you bought a HIS card you are out of luck as their RMA takes ages

Purgatory · 15 Jan 2011 at 00:37

Cleeecooo don't poison other threads now please because you have a problem with your card, keep your problem to one of your posts. OCUK tested your card and found no fault with it and returned it to you.

GJ02 · 15 Jan 2011 at 08:56

Cleeecooo said:
If you bought a HIS card you are out of luck as their RMA takes ages

was under the impression that OcUK dealt with HIS RMA's ?

Cleeecooo · 15 Jan 2011 at 11:54

GJ02 said:
was under the impression that OcUK dealt with HIS RMA's ?

Yes, my mistake - forgot about that

Higadeb · 15 Jan 2011 at 13:08

It'll be the drivers. I had the same issue. Make sure you're using the latest non-beta drivers. I'm using 10.11. But make sure you remove any remains of old ATI drivers first before you install just the be on the safe side.

UrbanSHark · 15 Jan 2011 at 15:36

Thank you for the info guys, so which driver should I install for the mo until the new ones are released 10.10 or 10.11?

Defunkt · 15 Jan 2011 at 15:58

10.10 should be fine

kingy666 · 15 Jan 2011 at 16:01

I have been using these 10.12a hotfix drivers which have support for the 69** cards.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst1012ahotfix.aspx

UrbanSHark · 15 Jan 2011 at 16:09

Tried 10.11 and 10.10, but doesnt seem to support the card. Il try this hotfix, thanks again

UrbanSHark · 15 Jan 2011 at 17:58

I tried the drivers and they seem to work. What I forgot to mention is that I flash it to the 6970. I flashed it back to the 6950 and it seems to be working fine now. I flashed it back to make sure that flashing the bios is what caused the problem. It seems that is the cause. Seems that my HIS 6950 isnt able to be flashed

J.D · 15 Jan 2011 at 22:53

Use the script that W1zzard made to keep the 6950 core and memory clocks the same, as well as the memory timings. After that, use MSI Afterburner to overclock whilst keeping an eye on the temps.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=137136

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=2137760&postcount=381

1st link is to the thread, second link is to the files needed to unlock ONLY the shaders and keeping the 6950 otherwise at stock. After looking through about 15 pages for you it would be rude not to tinker (joking). Good luck if you try it and if you dont, enjoy your gaming

.

Give the thread a read and see where you want to go from there. It's all simple, if you need help, we're here to help you out.

UrbanSHark · 16 Jan 2011 at 22:31

Tried that and is still blue screening after about 20mins into a game. I flashed it back and was playing metro 2033 for about 2hrs then blue screen again! Hope these new drivers fix the problem.. Otherwise its going back

lol

Stryda09 · 16 Jan 2011 at 22:54

What was the blue screen saying? If you could get a picture of it would be helpful. If it is saying something like DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL it is more likely to be a RAM issue but could be the drivers. Could always run Memtest to rule out your ram. If it isn't ram and it is that annoying you could try the modded leaked 11.1 drivers. There is a thread in this forum with a link.

UrbanSHark · 16 Jan 2011 at 23:27

Blue Screen

Uploaded a pic of the blue screen, sorry not the best quality picture. If not will try and get a better one.

http://img812.imageshack.us/i/16012011120.jpg/

Stryda09 · 16 Jan 2011 at 23:39

I had same blue screen error before and it was a faulty ram stick. So I would maybe try that first. You can either take one ram stick out and try it like that or you can run Memtest. Should atleast rule one component out.

GJ02 · 17 Jan 2011 at 08:22

Just to reassure you op
Last year when I first got my 1st 5870 I was getting bsod all the time, and it wasn't until 10.2 drivers did it stop, hang in and wait for 11.1 I'm sure they are going to be very good and fix a lot of 69xx issues

Also

As recommended above, test the ram, this too is a common cause of random bsod