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5870 Vertical lines Crash

LOAM said:
All fine here, on Win7 X64 with a 5870 (not sure what driver version though). Never seen anything like that tbh, not running with a massive OC though so.....
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5870 under xp 32 and windows 7 64, Q6600 overclocked to 3.6, I haven't seen anything either :confused:
 
wheelscene said:
tb - keep us posted man!
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Well after flashing the cards back and with the update all seemed fine - I upped back to 4.2 and all appeared fine, but I did have one incident with the same grey / white lines

I then did the profile edit last night and powered up the PC at around 6.30 this morning.

Its been on all day with Firefox / Outlook open - the screen saver has been kicking in and I have also done some sporadic emailing / browsing (all of wich have previously kicked the issue off) as well as some benching and *touch wood* some 12 hours (just about) later not even a hint of a problem - appears pretty damn solid !!!

Looks like its resolved - will be interesting to see if the 9.12s resolve it (or bugger it back up)

Cheers

TB
 
dude, do me a favour and try half an hour of "furmark" that normally can force a screen mash in about 5 mins!
More grief today for me. Booting from cold goes straight to BSOD 0x000003B which is reported to be bad data from gfx to kernal!!
Sounds like driver corrupted from all this crashing. Let me know if you get round to trying that test, will be a sure fire way to test the tweak.
From your sig you have the bundle with patriot right? Which bios you on for UD5?
 
Latest catalyst drivers ..

All PC activities undertaken (game, youtube, word processing, a bit of everything)

6 hours use ..

0 vertical line crashes.


Still holding my breath -- but I'm getting close to announcing an official 'problem solved'

:) :) :)
 
Am also suffering vertical line crashes. :(

the voltage tweaks you guys are talking about... on the graphics card or on chipsets?

I'm running an E5200 @ stock speeds and everything on [Auto] voltage wise.

Any suggestions?
 
Take a read of THIS (qoted earlier in this thread)

It *appears* (touch wood) to have sorted a lot of people out; as has disabling HD Audio drivers

I have flashed my GPU BIOS and done the CCC tweak and all has been stable since :)

Good Luck !!
 
Two of us I know of tried the CCC profile tweak mentioned here, it's painless and so far I have been stressing my GPU with furmark and its passing long stress tests. Previous I would either crash the program because of some inherent driver issue or recreate the vertical lines!! NB Also I reinstalled 9.11 drivers and customed it to NOT install HDMI audio aswell. I dont why it's getting involved but seems like taking a potential contributor out of the equation is a good idea.

Try it and feedback or wait and see if new drivers fix it, and then come back and try it...
(I would'nt dare do the bios thing just in case i smashed my shi7)
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Let me start off by saying that the steps I'm outlining here happened to have worked for me personally. There's no guarantee that they will solve the issues that other people are having with these cards. Depending on system configuration, many more variables could be to blame.

Ever since I got the card, I have been plagued by 2 problems. The first one was the infamous vertical stripes problem, and the second was the random crashes when the computer was idle or in 2D mode (web browsing, light graphics, etc).

PROBLEM 1: Vertical Stripes. Description: When playing a 3D accelerated game, the card would sometimes crash by displaying the distinct vertical lines.

My solution: After weeks of forum trolling, I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my card's bios to a "newer" one I found from ATI (my card is by XFX). I got the bios from here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/61848/ATI.HD5870.1024.091112.html

Conclusion/Observations: Since the update, not a single vertical lines crash. But I did continue to get 2D problems, which led me to find the next solution…



PROBLEM 2: Random crashes. Description: While NOT playing games, ie doing anything in 2D or when the computer would go idle or into screen powersaver mode, the crashes were almost certain. Windows graphical corruptions were also a tell-tale sign of the card being unstable and an impending crash.

My solution: Again after much reading, I came to the conclusion that Windows 64bit was not playing nice with my 5870’s powerplay function. Mainly that the idling 157 clock speed was not enough to keep the card stable when idle. After updating the card’s bios, I could go hours without a crash when playing a game, but then it would crash after I was done, when it sat idle on the desktop.

I came across this solution that forces the card to idle (2D) at a higher clock. I had to set it to a clock speed that Windows 7 would be happy with. (For me this was 400 when idle, and the stock 850 when running games)

Steps:

1. Open CCC

2. Unlock and Enable Overdrive if they aren’t already.

3. Go to Options/Profiles/Profiles Manager. Create a new profile. Under composition make sure “ATI Overdrive” is checked. Save and Close, DO NOT ACTIVATE.

4. In windows go to: C:\Users\{yourusername}\AppData\Local\ATI\ACE\Profiles (you will need to have “show hidden files” turned on for this)

5. Open the xml document with the name of the profile you just created (notepad is fine)

6. Change the values of the Clock and Memory speeds to look like this (these specific values are what worked for me and my card, use judgment) EDIT ONLY THE BOLD VALUES.



Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0"

Property name="Want_0" value="40000"

Property name="Want_1" value="60000"

Property name="Want_2" value="85000"

Feature

Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0"

Property name="Want_0" value="90000"

Property name="Want_1" value="90000"

Property name="Want_2" value="120000"



7. Save and close. Go back to CCC and activate the profile you just created.

This will make the card idle at 400core, 900memory. (2D clocks are the "Want_0" values)

Conclusions/Observations: My system has been completely stable for 4 days now, whereas before I would get 2-3 crashes each day.



I know this was long, but after much searching in these forums, I figured I should share my experience and solutions and hopefully help someone with the same issues.
 
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That's the same crash I would get playing WoW with the card overclocked to 900Mhz core on stock voltage, maybe you just have a duff card.
 
ive got 2 5870s and ive had nothing but joy out of them, they have never crashed, never had any graphic problems or anything.

There must be soemthing that all these users have that is causing the issue
 
ive got 2 5870s and ive had nothing but joy out of them, they have never crashed, never had any graphic problems or anything.

There must be soemthing that all these users have that is causing the issue
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NO, it's much much more likely that there are a number of setups that DO work, and a number that crash. It's pure fluke that you've landed on your feet with what you've bought.

From the gazillions of forum posts from people experiencing issues -- the only common link seems to be '64 bit operating system of some description'.

It's too widespread for ALL the people suffering to have some wacky peice of hardware/overclocking causing the problems ...
 
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