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'Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed'

CaNNoN_1981

CaNNoN_1981

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Thought I'd best start a new thread for this as my other one was more a build thread.

Please see my signature below for spec.

Old card was a Gainward HD 4780 1024MB Golden Sample, while this was in my system it was rock solid stable.

Bought a Gigabyte HD 7850 the other week as part of a rebuild I'm completing over the course of a few months, new mobo ram and Cpu are to follow.

So here's my issue, uninstalled old drivers, then booted to save mode and ran driver cleaner to remove all traces of ATI software, rebooted and installed the latest Cats 12.4's.

Everything appeared to run smoothly, successfully completed benchmarks on Heaven and 3Dmark, games appeared to be ok, WOW, Fifa12, Res Evil RC, Portal 2 etc.

I've prob had the card less than a week and now all of a sudden I'm getting BSOD 'Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed'

So I'm trying to discover if its the card or the drivers, I've heard the 12.4's have issue so I've tried the 12.3's and get the same problem.

I did try a slight increase on the GPU core and ram before any issues, but only an increase of 10 each, I've since set it back to stock.

My motherboard appears to have the latest BIOS F8, there was an F9c release but it was only beta.

After reading a bit about similar issues I've seen that installing the drivers without CCC can help, has anyone else encountered this?

My OS is a fairly new install as I purchased an SSD last month and I really dont want to have to try a format again with it being quite new already.

Can anyone suggest any options or could this be an RMA request.

Thanks in advance

CaNNoN.
 
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My PC crashed yesterday with a display driver BSOD. Running a new 7950 with 12.4's. It also earlier that day failed to wake from sleep properly and just kept starting up and going off, over and over. Had to pull the plug.

I beleive it is a 12.4 issue and I was recommended to roll back to 12.2 but I haven't got round to it yet.
 
I have an image of my current OS pre gfx drivers install. Think I will roll back tonight and install the 12.2's without the CCC (heard issue's with this too) and see how it goes.

I can always install the Asus GPU tweak tool in the future if needs be.
 
OK so last night imaged my PC back to pre gfx drivers and installed the 12.3's without CCC, played portal 2 for about 2 hours with no problems, ran heaven about 5 times with no problems.

PC didn't BSOD or anything.

Have left my PC on this morning and just remoted on from work and PC has recovered from a serious error, which is going to be previous BSOD I've been encountering.

So dont know if its still a driver issue, my new gfx card issue or something my new card doesn't like about my fairly old rig???

Stuck!!!

Edit: BSOD The bugcheck was: 0x00000116
 
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STOP 116 is the exact BSOD i've been getting. Tried most of the CATS with and without CAP. Turns out the drivers are simply terrible, i found some leaked ones mentioned in a forum - 8.970120418a - google that and you will find the file. Stopped the BSODS and running fine now. Hope that helps.
 
Robozilla said:
STOP 116 is the exact BSOD i've been getting. Tried most of the CATS with and without CAP. Turns out the drivers are simply terrible, i found some leaked ones mentioned in a forum - 8.970120418a - google that and you will find the file. Stopped the BSODS and running fine now. Hope that helps.
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I've found the forum in question where it mentions these drivers but can find no link to the actual set themselves???
 
8.97-120418a is the file name. I downloaded from one of the mediashare type sites, works brilliantly. On a side note, i think it's terrible we have to do this. I'll never buy AMD again.
 
Mine was the other way around - system seemed perfectly stable but as soon as i loaded anything that required a bit of 3d horsepower (even the gpu-z render test) the machine would either give me a black screen with a frozen "thinking" cursor or i'd get a BSOD. On the rare occasion this didn't happen, it would happen upon exiting the 3d program.
 
Well I've not crashed once in a 3D application but when the PC is idle I'll get a double black screen (dual display) one will try to come on to windows before I get the BSOD 'Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed'

Within event viewer the critical error is the 0x00000116 stop code.
 
Robozilla said:
Mine was the other way around - system seemed perfectly stable but as soon as i loaded anything that required a bit of 3d horsepower (even the gpu-z render test) the machine would either give me a black screen with a frozen "thinking" cursor or i'd get a BSOD. On the rare occasion this didn't happen, it would happen upon exiting the 3d program.
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How did you go about the removal of the old cat drivers?
 
Robozilla said:
Mine was the other way around - system seemed perfectly stable but as soon as i loaded anything that required a bit of 3d horsepower (even the gpu-z render test) the machine would either give me a black screen with a frozen "thinking" cursor or i'd get a BSOD. On the rare occasion this didn't happen, it would happen upon exiting the 3d program.
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That's all a bit extreme and if it was purely a driver issue doing that on anything that required 3D clocks then it would have been all the net in no time.
I hope your not running any other gfx sortware like Afterburner, trixx..ect..
 
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