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5870 going insane. And taking me with it!

Firenze

Firenze

Firenze

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Hi guys,
I'm on my 3rd 5870 now, only just got this fresh RMA like last week, most of which I've not been at home for most of.

I tried BFBC2 last night, and it quite happily started playing, fine frame rate, card seemed quiet, so I assume the temps were fine, (testing on Furmark and Unigine seemed fine) but after the first round ended, the second game loaded up (switching on the same map from attack to defend) and artifacts galore suddenly appeared...

I got a little ****ed at this so closed the game, and checked out unigine and furmark, both of which seemed fine, played some AvP (2010) on dx11, seemed fine. went back to BFBC2. Once again, first game was great, came to the end of the round, and it didn't get beyond the stats. 2D artifacting was all over the place, and CTD. Back on the desktop, my start bar had disappeared. I attempted to reload it by running explorer from the task manager (a task which seemed very difficult in comparison to what it should) but it would only load my documents.

I tried turning off my PC and using the secondary PCI slot, but I got similar results. Unigine, AvP and Furmark all seem fine, BFBC2 working great for 1 round and breaking horribly after that.

I've since moved back to the first slot (better airflow) and wonder if its a known bug or something? I've tried playing the single player, but it seems fine... any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!
 
few more quick bits of info,
Thought I'd try ruling out other components, so ran Prime 95 for a few tests, and came up with nothing, ruling out my CPU, and a memtest came up with nothing either.

Tried uninstalling my AMD drivers, loading safe mode, driver sweeper, reinstall and reboot, didn't help.

Just tried a game online of AvP too, as opposed to the single player I've been testing and it seems to artifact and freeze, but manages to save itself before a CTD.
 
The first time I had an issue from the moment I got the card, where playing videos through any program that used the card for acceleration would cause my PC to have a fit, and the second started heavy artifacting in games, making them juddery and unplayable and eventually crashing my whole system.
 
So I tried a re-format. I installed Windows and the applicable drivers, then Battlefield. I copied a backup over after installing from the disc, to save time in patching. I loaded the game and it seemed to be fixed. It played 4/5 rounds no trouble. I started reinstalling other programs, Steam, VLC, Office etc.

I copied over a backup of Steam to save downloading the 120~GB and went through loading them all up to have the resources all sorted for them all, however after doing this, I went back to battlefield, which has now started to do the same problem again. Surely something in my Steam list is causing the issue?

So I've made a proper backup of all the games using Steam's own backup tool, and went through the games one by one deleting all the local files. Tried Battlefield again, no luck. Tried restoring to the furthest point back I could, no luck. Thinking of reformatting again. Any other suggestions on the table?
 
I've memtested my RAM, and I've tried removing possibly conflicting C++ Redist. still getting the issues. Starting to think that I've be sent a slightly duff card.
 
event logs show graphics drivers crashing and resetting at the times when I have been testing. Have tried older drivers (10.4) and still getting the issue.

Would the event logs be enough Proof for OCUK to accept an RMA. I can't seem to cause issue in the tests they would normally run really
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iBskfsx98

The issue.

CPU Clocks are at stock.

Surely if something else was to blame, I would have had the same issue 3 times, not 3 different issues each time? And why is it that when I've RMA'd OCUK have tested and found issue with the cards I've sent back, meaning they're faulty?


All temps have been monitored and have been safe, GFX never gets above 76C, CPU usually gets to about 30C

If I'm not giving you enough information to go on, I apologise, not entirely sure what info to give, all you have to do is ask!
 
I'm not on the beta with steam, its odd as I've not done anything different with Steam than when I was on my 2nd card, and that never had this issue...
 
going to try in a mate's PC tonight, don't have one here at home and I'm kinda in the middle of nowhere.

I've had the suspicion that it might be something on the motherboard myself, but I don't know what I could do to test it. Really hoping its not also because it would mean most of my PC now surely?
Do they still sell motherboards that would take my QX6850 and DDR2 RAM?
 
the "G" range appear to all be mATX, and that "P" thats available would be be a DDR3 board... I have fought the upgrade itch for as long as I have been able to, scratching lightly, by upgrading just the graphics card (Although it meant a new case I quickly found).. It may be time...
 
Hmm an interesting result.

while my CPU is underclocked, the issue appears to have disappeared. Only one level change tried so far. takes a while for people to finish the game lol. second change was fine too..

voltages seem to stay within .02V of min and max on the Mobo, GPU fluctuation is a min of 0.95V to 1.16V, though I'm assuming thats just going from being in the game to not... Does this point to anything in particular then?
 
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voltages seem to stay within .02V of min and max on the Mobo, GPU fluctuation is a min of 0.95V to 1.16V,

Gpu temp min 32C, max 59C. CPU temp, 35 mins, 45~ max
 
I've reset the CPU to stock, and set the GPU to 600MHz,

Volts end up the same

Temps are about the same,

issue appears to have not returned..

Resetting both to stock, once again volts and temps seem normal, but the issue has returned.

Going to have to play around with my mates system when he arrives and see what happens in there...
 
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