crossfire - 1 gpu at 99% activity when idle

Mightyashy · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:14

Hi,

I've got 2 6950s (modded to 6970) and recently installed the beta 13.8 driver. I noticed when I got in from work today the fans sounded really loud on the PC, checked it and one GPU is at 99% activity and the fan at 50% (checked in CCC).

Used the catalyst uninstall app thinking it was the driver and put back on the 13.4 driver when I rebooted. Started ok then after a couple of mins crept up to full activity again, this is when just on the desktop with nothing running.

Can anyone help? dont want to kill my PC

Fire_fly · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:34

Have you tried to run an anti virus scan?

You may have been infected with a Bitcon mining virus or something similar.

Mightyashy · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:37

just trying that at the moment, updating and scanning. thanks mate

BaDBoY_uK · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:38

Fire_fly said:
Have you tried to run an anti virus scan?

You may have been infected with a Bitcon mining virus or something similar.

+1

There are a million posts in the gcard forum is your search

Fire_fly · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:45

Mightyashy said:
just trying that at the moment, updating and scanning. thanks mate

Have a look in the processes tab to see if anything odd is running, do the same with the list of start up programs.

Sometimes these types of viruses can be difficult for some antivirus software to detect as many people run Bitcon mining software themselves and so the antivirus programs don't always categorise that type of software as a malicious program.

RetrogamerX · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:58

You guys need good virus protection and Norton is the biggest system hog ever created.

Delete that pile off your PC right now!

Mightyashy · 3 Sep 2013 at 20:58

combofix appears to have sorted it. thanks for the advice chaps

RetrogamerX · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:04

Mightyashy said:
combofix appears to have sorted it. thanks for the advice chaps

Good to hear your sorted

shankly1985 · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:07

Avast is all you need. Been using since its release and never once had a virus.

Fire_fly · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:09

Mightyashy said:
combofix appears to have sorted it. thanks for the advice chaps

Good news, glad to know the problem has been solved.

RetrogamerX · 3 Sep 2013 at 21:30

shankly1985 said:
Avast is all you need. Been using since its release and never once had a virus.

Eset Nod32 is the best Anti Virus ever created. I get virus attacks everyday and not 1 virus ever in the years of use

gpuerrilla · 3 Sep 2013 at 22:42

RetrogamerX said:
Eset Nod32 is the best Anti Virus ever created. I get virus attacks everyday and not 1 virus ever in the years of use

I liked NOD too and even had a re-seller account at one point. I dropped them when they jacked the fees up though and decided to try others. Must admit it was the fastest scanning AV which was great when checking additional drives.

shankly1985 · 3 Sep 2013 at 23:32

RetrogamerX said:
Eset Nod32 is the best Anti Virus ever created. I get virus attacks everyday and not 1 virus ever in the years of use

But that cost money avast is free

RetrogamerX · 4 Sep 2013 at 07:05

shankly1985 said:
But that cost money avast is free

I've never paid for nod ever

Mightyashy · 4 Sep 2013 at 19:56

spoke too soon, did it again tonight. disabled crossfire which has put activity back to next to nothing.

any ideas lads? :confused:

shankly1985 · 4 Sep 2013 at 20:42

You using driver 13.8 beta2? Also gpu-z and over clocking with over drive?

Because if so it could be driver issue as amd say in the release notes.

thecremeegg · 5 Sep 2013 at 00:08

Try this http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18498153

Mightyashy · 5 Sep 2013 at 11:12

shankly1985 said:
You using driver 13.8 beta2? Also gpu-z and over clocking with over drive?

Because if so it could be driver issue as amd say in the release notes.

went from 13.8 beta back down to 13.4 as I thought that may be the issue. still getting it though.

had a look for the bitcoin problem and cant find anything, ran combofix already and malwarebytes is showing nothing. baffled

Mightyashy · 5 Sep 2013 at 11:42

at a total loss here. uninstalled all drivers, put on 13.1 to see if that made any difference but after 10 mins it creeps up to 99% on one GPU

Mightyashy · 6 Sep 2013 at 18:20

nothing I try sorts this

cleaned out the drivers and put older ones on (13.1) but it still creeps up. Combofix seems to sort it out momentarily but then eventually it jumps back up.

if I disable crossfire the single GPU seems fine in CCC. scratching my head for any ideas now, I've no idea what is causing it. can anyone suggest anything I can perhaps try?

thanks