5870 Vertical lines Crash

[wolvers]

looks like 9.12 not fixed this for many still, if I get one more crash after installing the latest drivers, I'm getting a refund, I never had this problem with nvidia on the same system, sick of it.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1466677&page=11

Have you tried upping the vcore a little?

Interesting post, if it's true.

I spoke with a guy at Newegg today about getting an RMA for my card. Couldn't because too much time had passed and now I have to deal directly with XFX but he told me "off the record" that a rep with ATI spoke with a few of them and told them they are trying to track down the issue, that it is very wide spread and one of the things they are looking at is a small component used in the build process that is "degrading out of spec rapidly" his words not mine. I am not too sure what that means but it doesn't sound good.

 

[mmj_uk]

Apparently ATI have released a new BIOS to fix a displayport issue...

Reports are saying that it has increased 3D voltage:

BIOS version 113-C00101-101 - default voltage 1,162V
BIOS version 113-C00101-103 - default voltage 1,174V

Perhaps they've even increased 2D voltages and it may help stability for all of you having crashes.

 

[{SAS}TB]

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

Mine had both been rock solid for months then went screwy after a driver reinstall :S

The BIOS flash seems to have resolved it

 

[khulershaker]

How do I update the BIOS in the GPU?

 

[khulershaker]

Oh look, surprise surprise, that was happened when I closed firefox just now - LOL
Now I'm crazy! aaargh
Ok counted to 10 - applying profile tweak now to see if that really did help or was a fluke!!

 

[{SAS}TB]

How do I update the BIOS in the GPU?

Read THIS MATE

 

[khulershaker]

just to be sure which bios has the voltge tweak to cure this problem? Read THIS MATE "or" Apparently ATI have released a new BIOS to fix a displayport issue...

Reports are saying that it has increased 3D voltage:

BIOS version 113-C00101-101 - default voltage 1,162V
BIOS version 113-C00101-103 - default voltage 1,174V

Perhaps they've even increased 2D voltages and it may help stability for all of you having crashes.

 

[{SAS}TB]

Sorry mate

I used Martini's Guide

With THIS BIOS

And then used this profile tweak:

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.

Sauce

Hope this helps

 

[khulershaker]

Cool thanks for that - ok all done - had to rename the .bin to be able to see it, otherwise pretty painless. I pray to God this is the one, I'll let you know, of course!!!!
For any one reading
I am @ 9.12 + hotfix + BIOS as above......

 

[hyperst]

So guys how are the problems a few days later, has this profile solved this issue for you, i have done this profile late last night as had two vertical line crashs yesterday, none today since doing the profile, fingers crossed

 

[{SAS}TB]

Not wanting to tempt anything, but, all seems fine here

 

[khulershaker]

Well, also not wanting to temp anything either, no problems here although I have done something different.

The profile and the BIOS didnt work and from reading this thread and others like it, I decided to try something else that was reported to work for some.

I went back to my overclock and relaxed the memory timings from 8-8-8-24 to 8-8-8-26 (as I heard over 4ghz - Im on 4.2ghz - can some times be required to bring stability back) upped my Vcore a notch and tested like never before. 24 hours of prime, blend, large FFT, linx, HCI memory in windows, memtest..anything I could do that would point the instability towards the OC @ 4.2. Nothing - sailed through it.

After that I then ran two separate hour sessions in furmark to try and force the graphics to crash. No error's.
I also then reinstalled the drivers and also deleted any left over files for freshest install possible.

So for me, touch wood, all is fine and not even done any of the tweaks for idle GPU clock.

Real world useage, 2-3 hour sessions of dirt 2 quite regular, PC been on all week in use and idle...not a whiff of the problem. I dont like announcing all this as it feels like I'm building up towards a fall. But I think it's all good. Off for more dirt 2 now and hope others are ok now too. Happy Xmas!

 

[xommul]

I am now getting this issue of Vertical lines with my New 5870 Powercolour P++

Is there a fix now for this issue? I did not get this with my old 8800 GTS nvidia with my current pc settings.