Computer Crashing when playing games.

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Hey guys,

I bought a new Sapphire HD7850 GPU, since my old GPU died. I also changed the CPU and the RAM from my second computer to get a better gaming PC.

Now everytime that I play the game, my PC crashes, the screen goes black and all I hear on my headphone is this weird repeating sounds (hard to describe). The computer crashes at random times, sometimes I could be playing fine for two hours or only for 10 minutes when the crash happens. I haven't got a blue screen of death or anything, just a blank screen.

In order to try and solve the problem, I reinstalled Windows 7, new drivers, updated the bios, and I am still getting the same problem. Temps are normal, nothing is overheating, my GPU gets to 60c under load when playing BF3. I also underclocked both the GPU and CPU too see if this would solve the problem but I got the same results. I checked all the voltages from my CPU and GPU and they seem normal as they should be. I even overvolted the CPU and RAM but no improvement. I even ran Prime95 for three hours and the PC did not crash, so i think this may have to do something with GPU.

Also watching YouTube video in full screen, occasionally the screen will go blank or sometimes white. This does not happen if watching Youtube videos and not having full screen on. When that happens, only thing to do is to press the restart button. But when I do that, the PC gives me two pings from the speaker and the PC does not start. Only way to start it again is so press the power button to turn off the pc and then on again.

Surfing the net and all the other stuff that I do, I never have a problem, PC is 100% stable when doing those tasks.

I honestly don't know what the problem is. My GPU is runing at 1.138 volts when playing games and I even underclocked it from 920/1250 to 800/1100 and still get the same problem.

WTF is wrong with this computer :confused:
 
Thanks for the replies. Its not just BF series, I get the same problems with pretty much every game that I play. Will change RAM and see if that improves the situation.
 
Uninstalled the realtek drivers but still having the same problem.

At times like this, it hits you how much better console gaming is. You almost never get **** like this with them.

God knows what the fcking problem is.
 
Agreed, it's certainly more convenient but isn't necessarily better..

Well it is better, because you can actually play games on it. How many times have we PC gamers had to put up with constant ****. Bad ports, games that crash all the times, I can't even believe we put up with all this crap. I mean PC gaming is so great, that I still can't play GTA 4 at solid 60fps. I am runing 1090t and 8GB of ram and have an hd7850 yet can't average 60fps....

Been trying to figure for over a month now, what's wrong with it. I have changed the CPU, the RAM, reinstalled everything, updated the bios and still can't find a fix.

Can't remember the last time I had to do that on a console.
 
to the op,list your components

be sure to update to the latest mb bios
and try adjusting the power control slider in amd ccc,set it to 20%,usually it cures gpu stability problems

For the 3rd time, I have already updated the bios. It is running the latest bios version on this planet.

Can't open AMD CCC. Another great thing about PC's, **** dosen't work and we never know how or why. I have already reinstall it 3 times but every time it doesn't load up.

I have adjusted the power control slider in afterburner but it makes no difference.
 
to get ccc to run you have to reinstall .net framework 4 i had that problem with my new build when ever you start your pc does it say mom.exe has crashed

I don't get any error message. I click on it I get a little circle next to the mouse point indicating that it is loading but nothing open up.

I will try and install framework4 later and see if that makes it work.
 
I have the exact same problem as OP has, except my card is a Gigabyte 7850. My friend also has a 7850 and has the exact same problem as us both. Surfing the web, using Microsoft word, and even using Furmark would not crash my PC. But when I start playing games from Counter Strike: Source to Battlefield 3 it would crash at random times, sometimes 5 minutes into the game and sometimes 2 hours into the game. It's really annoying.

Yeah I suspected my GPU to be the problem. Can't be a driver problem since I tried 3 different ones with no improvement.

Last time I am buying AMD, that's for sure. Probably I won't even be able to buy an AMD computer for my next upgrade, because they are hopefully going to go bust. Can't make any good CPU's and can't make a GPU that will run a game for 30 minutes.

Intel/Nvidia for me next that's for sure.
 
their not going bust aslong as they get it right this year they have planned a whole new streak of cpus and gpus. the amd cards are good, your just having issues which is not amd's fault but the g-card manufacturers even if the g-card is to blame

Yeah of course it isn't their fault. Just like the original Phenom series with the TLB bug wasn't their fault. Or their award winning GPU drivers, where half of their customers are having problems. The fact is the company is a total joke. Which other company introduces new CPU that is slower and more power hungry than their old generation, i mean come on wake up!!!!

The gap between Intel and AMD is already embarrassing, If AMD do manage to survive, the gap in 10 years time will be around 500% in performance IMO. Joke of a company.

I am still amazed that they actually exists. I have waken up, last time I buy anything with AMD written on it.
 
youll have to forgive me as i havnt read all the thread but if ccc isnt loading up at startup then 99% thats down to cpu voltage not being enough

it happens on my z77 system if im too low on cpu v,one/two clicks more cures it and ccc load everytime and games dont crash to desktop!!!

it could be a gpu issue still but you need to try other things first and list all your hardware

That has nothing to do with cpu voltage. You are forgetting ccc is made by the biggest amateurs in IT industry. You can expect bad coding in ccc and that's exactly what it is causing it.

Just to confirm I ran my cpu at 1.50v far greater than recommended and ccc still does not load.

Just forget about it, I have given up, the reason the problem is occurring is because I have a gpu with AMD sticker on it. Just found another guy with the same problem as me. 17 pages of discussion. http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=364498
Using google, there seems to be loads of people with the same problem. Here is the EXACT same noise I get when the computer crashes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8erBOaOBck&feature=g-upl

Fingers crossed AMD goes bankrupt in 2013.
 
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I've never had any trouble with ATI drivers,ever since my x1950pro

Lucky you, but I heard a variant of X1950pro was the cause of the famous RROD in the xbox 360. Only 10+ million people effected with something like 50% failure rate. Yup ATI/AMD sure sound like a great company.
 
Funny thing is, I probably can't even RMA it. When they are going to test it, it might work, crashes can sometimes happen after hours of gameplay. I doubt it they are going to have a guy play BF3 for 5 hours too see if the GPU crashes. :rolleyes:
 
I have two msi tf3 7850 cards tested them in a h55 board z68 and x77 no issues at all,I've seen lots of issues with ocz psu's and gigabyte boards over on tweaktown,Idk if your running a gigabyte board or if the issue extends to gigabyte gpu's but its worth testing with another psu if you can,and to use the latest beta BIOS,if that fails then you can only rma the card

It's not the motherboard or the psu that is causing this problem. It's clear by a mile that the HD7850/7870 have major problems. The links I have posted, quite a few people have the same problem, even Sapphire on their official forums have admitted that the cards are ****. Only problem is they are only accepting the HD7870 for RMA for this problem and not the HD7850. Clearly the 7850 is also affected with multiple people having the same problems.

This guy has the exact same GPU as me, even the SKU is the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxf8TqlLuCU

Exactly the same problem, even the sound it outputs when it crashes it is the same.

AMD gpu, can't expect much I guess.
 
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