5970 grief

[ProT4GoNisT]

my antec 1200 case arrives on monday got to switch everything round, Forest lets hope you dont get the dreaded driver stopped responding and has recovered when you get your system built lol

 

[ProT4GoNisT]

This 2D clock issue is just a sham realy

 

[forest4]

my antec 1200 case arrives on monday got to switch everything round, Forest lets hope you dont get the dreaded driver stopped responding and has recovered when you get your system built lol

I am going to just run my single XFX 5870 at stock clocks. I am overclocking my Core i7 920 though.

Cool, I heard good things about the Antec 1200. The CM Storm Sniper Black Ed. is not for everyone. Good choice.

Yeah, I think the overly aggressive powersaving in the 5800-series was more of a marketing tool than a green "ATI is gong to save the Earth" solution, as demonstrated (in my opinion) by the 2D bugs. Agreed, I hope my 5870 turns out OK

 

[Muynck]

have you tried raising your 2d clocks, just updated the bios on my card as well for manual fan control first time flashing a card everything went ok. Also about raising the 2d clocks you shouldnt realy haft to do this though not with a new card anyway if you've tryed all the drivers and still getting the problem i would try and RMA the card for a component this expensive you shouldn't have problems with it and haft to mess around with it lol

Yeh it's really weird. Ingame I get amazing results, no problems at all, out of game just on my desktop or browsing the net, the drivers will randomly stop working! Maybe i should update the bios, but no idea how to do this.

I'll try the 10.3 beta's now though. Is it ok with ATi just to go to Device Manager and uninstall the drivers that way? Then restart and install the new ones?

 

[forest4]

I have never installed Bios myself. I always take my PC in to the shop to let the technicians do the work. But I see some threads here at overclockers on flashing your Bios in order to overclock your videocard. I assume this is roughly the same process as a Bios update.

 

[Durzel]

Resurrecting the thread...

I thought 10.2 had fixed my problems, but turns out it hadn't. Even setting the 2D clocks to 400/900 doesn't stop me getting "driver has stopped responding" mini-freezes (that recover).

But... I've made progress...

Basically my card seems to have a cold bug. When I first switch on my computer, if I let it boot all the way into the desktop I'm virtually guaranteed to get a grey (or other colour) screen of death that means I have to reboot. If I let it warm up a bit by stalling it on the BIOS or boot device menu then when it gets to the desktop it will either be fine, or get a couple of "driver stopped responding" errors.

Once it's fully warmed up, like now, at over 40 degrees C idle - it's fine, not a single "driver stopped responding" error or grey/coloured screen of death.

I think that's what confused me in the first place - the card never crashed on me in games (because it was warm), but in 2D when it wasn't doing much, and definitely after it had just been powered up after several hours switched off, it was unstable as hell.

So - thoughts? Can't see how drivers or a BIOS update would fix that unless it ramps the voltage up early to get the card up to operating temperature quickly.

 

[chief barker]

Resurrecting the thread...

I thought 10.2 had fixed my problems, but turns out it hadn't. Even setting the 2D clocks to 400/900 doesn't stop me getting "driver has stopped responding" mini-freezes (that recover).

But... I've made progress...

Basically my card seems to have a cold bug. When I first switch on my computer, if I let it boot all the way into the desktop I'm virtually guaranteed to get a grey (or other colour) screen of death that means I have to reboot. If I let it warm up a bit by stalling it on the BIOS or boot device menu then when it gets to the desktop it will either be fine, or get a couple of "driver stopped responding" errors.

Once it's fully warmed up, like now, at over 40 degrees C idle - it's fine, not a single "driver stopped responding" error or grey/coloured screen of death.

I think that's what confused me in the first place - the card never crashed on me in games (because it was warm), but in 2D when it wasn't doing much, and definitely after it had just been powered up after several hours switched off, it was unstable as hell.

So - thoughts? Can't see how drivers or a BIOS update would fix that unless it ramps the voltage up early to get the card up to operating temperature quickly.

I have exactly the same issue as you, but all I do is boot up then go into the bios and leave it there so the GFX card warms up....go have a fag then come back 5 mins later and all boots fine. Defo cold boot. Not sure what else to do to be honest.

 

[mcrustk2]

I have the same problem with my ASUS 5970 on Win7 x64 - crashes when cold, after another reboot and warm up its fine for everything, 2d, 3d any progress with this?