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5850 dead? time to upgrade?

Pleasence

Pleasence

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Booting my PC this morning strangely put me in 1280x768 resolution, in a small box in the middle of my 1080p monitor. I was unable to set the resolution any higher so assumed I had a driver issue.

I'm running a PowerColor 5850 1GB. Had it for 3+ years, wish I didn't take a gamble on this brand. :(

I installed the latest AMD drivers (9.012 for Win8 64bit) which I believe I was already running anyway. This gave me the Windows 8 BSOD equivalent during driver installation, with the a message referencing VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE on gdkmd64.sys.

A reboot put me back in the 1280x768 mode, so I tried the driver rollback and this just killed output from my card, a black screen but with Windows still running normally under that since sound was still working. Another reboot with an attempt at putting the AMD beta drivers on gave me the same black screen on driver installation.

Do you think this card is dead? Any help on this would be really appreciated.


Details: Running an i5-2500k on a ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z Intel Z68. All at default clock speeds. Windows 8 64bit. Not changed any other system settings recently.
 
try clearing the cmos and loading optimised defaults in the bios,then try and see if it displays correctly
 
Things to try:

1) Remove the card and try booting using your processor's IGP (that mobo has a single HDMI out, right?) - that could help isolate to the GPU.

2) Try another GPU if possible (to eliminate a problem with the PCIE slot)

3) try the 5850 in another rig
 
wazza300: Thanks so much for this suggestion, got it working fine now. :D

Mockingbird: Thanks for the help, I tried the integrated graphics out of HDMI and that worked fine, but luckily I didn't have to go any furthur with your other ideas since the CMOS reset got it working.

Just tried reinstalling the latest drivers again after I got it working, this sent be back to the black screen and gave me the issue again. It appears the default windows-supplied drivers are working with the 5850 (I fired up the new BioShock and it worked fine) but the latest AMD 'stable' drivers are killing the card. :confused:

Is there a known issue with latest drivers breaking the 5850?
 
I am having problems with the latest drivers on my HD 5970s, I have not tried for a few weeks but I need to have another go at getting mine running correctly too.
 
how hard is it to do a clean windows install? usually that cures a multitude of sins

other than that idk?

amd do tend to neglect older cards,they already dropped to legacy support on the 4k series
 
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