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5870 issues

EnderXi

EnderXi

EnderXi

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Okay, i got my 5870 from overclockers yesterday, got it home and installed, its running but i wouldnt say well, firstly i still get the Grey screen of death as it has been dubbed even with the hotfix drivers and my 3d mark score is very low compared with others, i barely get 18k most results i have seen are 20K++

Now my question is do i have a faulty card or is it a driver issue or what?
 
What's your CPU, and is it overclocked?
Also, I've seen that the 5870 reacts badly to certain hardware combinations.

One guy on another forum had tons of problems with crashes, he RMA'ed the card, and he passed as not faulty.
 
I have a i7 920 D0 on a Asus P6TD motherboard with 6GB of corsair memory, got a 850w Antec signature power supply, i have not overclocked the CPU at all as yet, dont see the need currently its performing beyond expectations.

Previously i had a 8800GTX i uninstalled the driver rebooted, checked with driver sweeper for remenants found some removed em and rebooted again, installed 10.1 rebooted then installed the 10.1 hotfix pack rebooted and ran the 3d mark, then i played WoW and Bioshock 2 and it grey screened in bioshock 2.
 
Hey up,

Personally i would do a re-install.

Im guessing windows 7? i had thought driver sweeper didnt play to well with it.

Give it a rebuild and see what happens
 
yeah Windows 7, you mean complete reinstall of the operating system to see if it works or just uninstall the drivers and install the hotfix drivers again?
 
EnderXi said:
yeah Windows 7, you mean complete reinstall of the operating system to see if it works or just uninstall the drivers and install the hotfix drivers again?
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When switching form NV to ATI or vice versa it's advised to reinstal your OS as problems are common :)

What 3D mark is that btw?
 
3dmark 06, i will give it a go tonight see if that solves the problem, but currently im not exactly happy with the way its working so far
 
reiyushin said:
When switching form NV to ATI or vice versa it's advised to reinstal your OS as problems are common :)

What 3D mark is that btw?
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Reinstalling OS is a drastic measure, really an uninstall of previous drivers, followed by driversweeper, diskl cleanup and a defrag should be enough to prepare ur PC for a new card. I also run CCleaner after that to delete unused registry values.

Try installing the 9.12 + hotfix (rather than 10.1 + hotfix) - was more stable for me on 5870.
 
ok will give different drivers a go see if i can achieve a stable system and if i cant i will give a reinstall a go. doesnt take too long on windows 7 anyway to reinstall.
 
right, i have tried 10.2 and 10.3 and still gettting grey screens, this is frustrating me massively, im gonna try to reinstall windows 7 now from scratch and see how that gets on, if i still get grey screens on a clean fresh install with 10.2 drivers its definately something else thats wrong.
 
EnderXi said:
right, i have tried 10.2 and 10.3 and still gettting grey screens, this is frustrating me massively, im gonna try to reinstall windows 7 now from scratch and see how that gets on, if i still get grey screens on a clean fresh install with 10.2 drivers its definately something else thats wrong.
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10.2 only out today and 10.3 not out yet :confused:
 
when do you get the gray screen?
sometimes when i switch my pc on in the morning i have to reset it because i get the gray sereen but that has happend since i bought the card have learnd to live with it
 
I had heard that driver sweeper doesnt play well with windows 7, can do more harm than good.

I stand by what i said "when making a hardware change/upgrade to re-install" But i guess thats just me.
 
thats easy to say if like me you have a seprate hardrive with your windows instlation on only but some poor people only have a 1tb hardrive with everything on
 
well i got the 8.703 drivers the beta releases and tried them still getting grey screens, i have tried lower clock rate and memory speed and its not good, now that someone is getting 18k on 3dmark 06 with a 5770 really suggests my card is broke :(

im going to reinstall windows tonight and if that doesnt do the business then im gonna send the card back for a refund and wait for fermi.
 
woppy101 said:
when do you get the gray screen?
sometimes when i switch my pc on in the morning i have to reset it because i get the gray sereen but that has happend since i bought the card have learnd to live with it
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Happens after 10-20 mins playing BFBC2, not tried the new 10.2 drivers yet but if they're no good i'm going back to 9.12.
 
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