Soldato
Recently my 'Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 PCS Extreme 512MB GDDR5' has been playing up.
Here is the rest of my system which I've had just over a year now:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 4Ghz
Asus P5Q-E Intel P45
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz Black Dragon
Xonar DX
Corsair HX 520W PSU
Windows XP
Basically what happens is everything is fine in desktop mode, but within a minute of loading up a game my video signal cuts out and my monitor switches off, requiring a hard reset. Sometimes windows is still active in the background, other times the whole computer has crashed. This has only started happening in the last few weeks and I've not had any hardware changes for a while now.
The strange thing is after a reboot, I can load the same game up and play it absolutely fine for hours.
At first I thought it might be heat or drivers, but despite cleaning the dust out of the heatsink and fan and trying several different catalyst versions (from 9.5 to 9.9) the problem still remains. Nothing seems out of order in the temperature monitor and the card itself doesn't feel too hot to touch.
Anyone have any ideas? Could it power related? I thought the Corsair was more durable than that! I can't afford new kit at the moment.
Here is the rest of my system which I've had just over a year now:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 4Ghz
Asus P5Q-E Intel P45
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz Black Dragon
Xonar DX
Corsair HX 520W PSU
Windows XP
Basically what happens is everything is fine in desktop mode, but within a minute of loading up a game my video signal cuts out and my monitor switches off, requiring a hard reset. Sometimes windows is still active in the background, other times the whole computer has crashed. This has only started happening in the last few weeks and I've not had any hardware changes for a while now.
The strange thing is after a reboot, I can load the same game up and play it absolutely fine for hours.
At first I thought it might be heat or drivers, but despite cleaning the dust out of the heatsink and fan and trying several different catalyst versions (from 9.5 to 9.9) the problem still remains. Nothing seems out of order in the temperature monitor and the card itself doesn't feel too hot to touch.
Anyone have any ideas? Could it power related? I thought the Corsair was more durable than that! I can't afford new kit at the moment.