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Display Driver Stopped Responding...

Technics

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Occasionally when booting my screen locks an error of "AMD display driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered" appears. I have tried numerous things to try and solve this problem including a clean windows install, changing windows registry values in line with Microsoft's suggested solution to this problem non of which seem to have worked.

My question being is this an issue that warrants an RMA? i only ask because i have read some reports of cards with this issues on one machine working perfectly fine on another.

My card is a XFX 6950 1gb, which after the initial freeze works flawlessly from then on.

Any suggestions would be appreciated,
Technics
 
Thanks for the fast reply, my psu is 850 Watt so I'm pretty certain its not that, but i will go and nock everything back to stock and see if the problem persist.

Technics
 
It can be any of a multitude of things that cause a TDR, unstable system/gpu overclocks, voltages, mb, psu, and driver/software conflicts.

Rma'ing it usually results in a card getting sent straight back with no fault and a charge to yourself.

Set everything at stock, and try and see if that resolves it.

If not, keep everything@stock, make sure your ram timings are correct, get a spare HD, then install windows, mb/sound drivers, latest release Cats, nothing else(including asus software) and see if the problem is resolved.
 
Hello I been getting this since I installed Amd 12.6 betas Not once did I get it on 12.4 before. But since doing a fresh driver install back to 12.4 am now getting this once a day.
I have found this fix on some site and I want to know if you guys think its safe to do. Here the Link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487368 and here is ment to be the fix 1. open REGEDIT
2. goto HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers.
3. Add following DWORD "TdrLevel"
4. Set the value to "0"
This disables TDR

So my question is how safe is this? From what I have read its fixed all who has done this.

Thanks
 
removing TDR is pretty unsafe from a system stability point of view. It allows windows to recover from graphic driver crashes. If you still have crashes after that, you'll have BSOD and have to reboot.

It's unlikely the TDR is the problem - it's a symptom, showing you you have a problem. You need to find what that is.

That said, it's not going to damage your card. You could try it, then when it doesn't fix your problem and you get blue screens, just remove the registry key.
 
Could ram make this happen? My last ram when installed I never had this happen. This has only just started happening this week. My last ram was giving me bsod memory error and memtest found loads of errors, so I went and bought 8gb Kingston and that passes 8 hour test with no errors. But that's the only real system change that I have done.
I'll do this disable thing and see how I get on and will report back if I bsod.

Thanks
 
shankly1985 said:
Quick update from me, I done the Reg edit trick and so far so good :)
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That is fine to use and as someone else said, it will BSOD instead of kicking you from game/video. I will say that is more of a plaster and not a permanent fix.

I found myself and a lot of other guys also found that adding a very small amount of volts sorts it out but I would not like to say how much to use on AMD.

Ohhhh and someone else also told me that this only happens with NVIDIA ;) Maybe this is driver related, as I have seen a few of these threads recently from AMD?
 
More like the 12.6 betas caused it I would say but who knows.

Someone else told me that specifically 560ti's are terrible for it, much more than the norm.

Although I don't recall him telling me that all Nvidia gpu's suffered specifically with TDR's though.;) :)
 
tommybhoy said:
More like the 12.6 betas caused it I would say but who knows.

Someone else told me that specifically 560ti's are terrible for it, much more than the norm.

Although I don't recall him telling me that all Nvidia gpu's suffered specifically with TDR's though.;) :)
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Yer its strange how I have never once had it while using 12.4, I install 12.6 couple days it starts happening, I back down to 12.4 with driver sweeper and fresh install and it was still happening.

The good news, I played BF3 for over 4 hours last nigh and not a single issue :)
 
gregster said:
That is fine to use and as someone else said, it will BSOD instead of kicking you from game/video. I will say that is more of a plaster and not a permanent fix.

I found myself and a lot of other guys also found that adding a very small amount of volts sorts it out but I would not like to say how much to use on AMD.

Ohhhh and someone else also told me that this only happens with NVIDIA ;) Maybe this is driver related, as I have seen a few of these threads recently from AMD?
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Yer I also heard about giving it more volts but am not really sure on doing that. Both cards are from what I read bad for it and its a horrible issue because from what I read so meny things can kick it off :(
 
Because I have disabled the TDR would it always BSOD if failed? Just been playing BF3 and my system froze team speake was still working has I was still talking but I couldn't do nothink to quit the game had to reset. you think this because I disabled TDR?
If so looks like my next set is to give card couple volts am using a HD 7950 whats a safe voltage I can give.

Thanks
 
shankly1985 said:
Because I have disabled the TDR would it always BSOD if failed? Just been playing BF3 and my system froze team speake was still working has I was still talking but I couldn't do nothink to quit the game had to reset. you think this because I disabled TDR?
If so looks like my next set is to give card couple volts am using a HD 7950 whats a safe voltage I can give.

Thanks
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I would sya that is related although reading up, generally it will crash the comp fully more than let you still chat on TS.

Try the volts with Afterburner or something you are familiar with but just go up very slightly...This could help stabalise your problem (This works often for NVIDIA cards).
 
gregster said:
I would sya that is related although reading up, generally it will crash the comp fully more than let you still chat on TS.

Try the volts with Afterburner or something you are familiar with but just go up very slightly...This could help stabalise your problem (This works often for NVIDIA cards).
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Thanks on MSI AB in settings is it only unlock voltage control I want to tick and leave other option?
 
Pulling my hair out here guys, I have edited the .cgf file and the voltage will not stay keeps resetting back to default?

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