getting bsod when playing games

Nodiggidy123 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:02

ive recently upgraded my cpu/ motherboard and ram.

now i didnt reinstall windows as i was under the impression with win 7 didnt need to. (currently reinstalling to see if it fixes it)

basically i am happily playing a game and boom bsod with cannot restart ati driver error.

ive tested the cards individually and they appear to be fine. and ive reinstalled the drivers.

what else should i be doing?

Orcvader · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:05

Could be motherboard driver conflicts. I know some people manage to get away from doing a fresh install when changing the motherboard but it's still best to do a fresh install on the safe side. What temps is the CPU reaching?

Nodiggidy123 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:16

60c with my oc.

im just doing a dummy install on a old hardrive so as not to put to may writes to my ssd. fingers crossed.

i did run driver cleaner but that hasnt helped.

only other thing i can think is the motherboard is faulty but want to make absolutley sure before i send it backand get NFF.

mp260767 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:19

what drivers have you loaded for the 6950's and what psu have you got.

Nodiggidy123 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:21

mp260767 said:
what drivers have you loaded for the 6950's and what psu have you got.

well i initially thought it could be my psu its a 800w bfg, bout 3 years old.

i get the feeling its not the problem as i could not get a bsod looping heaven last night.

using the 11.9 drivers.

all worked fine on my old ud3r

jakejacob0 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:45

what psu do you have?

Nodiggidy123 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:56

jakejacob0 said:
what psu do you have?

read my above post.

Nodiggidy123 · 20 Oct 2011 at 21:12

thought id again test each gpu individually and this time round trying to load my previously 100% stable oc on the motherboard was met with a bsod. ive had the board less than a week. even putting the max safe volts was met with the same.

sound faulty?

mp260767 · 21 Oct 2011 at 01:19

have you run it without the overclock with 1 card, then again with both in xfire ?

Kouba · 21 Oct 2011 at 01:37

Put your cpu back to stock to see if it makes a difference. I had a similar problem to yours and thats what fixed it for me.

Nodiggidy123 · 21 Oct 2011 at 06:41

mp260767 said:
have you run it without the overclock with 1 card, then again with both in xfire ?

yeah. its fine for around 15 mins then all of a sudden freeze and bsod.

is it to much of a coincidence that it was fine before i upgraded.

mp260767 · 21 Oct 2011 at 08:40

have you tried running memtest ?

does the event viewer show any errors, have you turned off the setting to reboot on bsod so you can get more detail off the error ?

Nodiggidy123 · 21 Oct 2011 at 09:03

Memtest was fine.

Ive ordered the asrock extreme4 now. Gonna dsr current one to see if that fixes it.