Graphic card testing 6870 + drivers

[fire_munki]

Hi,
Got the card in my sig but the driver crashes constantly on any game I try bar Deus Ex 3.
I have GPUz running when I play and the temp never gets particularly hot, fans never spool up past 60%.

Tried the drivers all up to 11.11a and just about to try 11.11b but I doubt it will make a difference. Using CCC I even tried having the fans run 100% but all that did was make it damn noisy.

My BIOS is at the most recent and there is no o/c on the CPU.
I'm at a loss here, its never crashed in Windows and isn't even a month old.
Anything I can test the card with? Or even try.

 

[fire_munki]

11.11b installed, same issue.
Card showing speeds at 900MHz for gpu and 1050MHz for VRAM is that the standard speeds?
Please anyone help, or does it need to be RMA'd? Never had this issue with my old 8800GT.

 

[old gamer]

Could be a conflict with old nvidia drivers, fresh windows install might cure the problem

 

[Davefran]

Just spotted this on another forum, might be worth borrowing some Ram off a friend to test out the thoery.

Hello,

I think that I have found the answer to every ones problems with Windows 7 64 bit crashing. I have battled the crashes for a year and swapped out all kinds of hardware-video cards, reinstalled windows several times and made sure all my drivers were up to date. None of that fixed the issue. What FIXED my crashes is adding 2g more memory. I had 4g of ram and windows 7 would crash playing game. After upgrading my memory from 4 to 6g my computer has been ROCK solid. Has not crash in over 2 weeks. I talked to a software expert were I worked and he told me that 64bit will use more memory then the 32 bit.

I REALLY believe that this is the fix for most people based on all the research I have done.

 

[fire_munki]

Ah should have said, whole new machine. Merely a spurious comment that I never had issues with that old card.
Although driver sweeper does show nvidia display drivers. Which is odd as this unit only has onboard and never had a nvidia card in. And shows nvidia chipset? Its an intel board so they're all going I think.
Can screen shot the driver sweep analysis if that would help?
I'm gonna remove them, leave the phys drivers in do we think?

 

[fire_munki]

Well ran driver sweeper, it said reboot so I did but they are still showing there but not with any info about them so I guess they've gone.
Device manager has no Nvidia item in it.
CCleaner only has the phys as an uninstallable item so will try playing a game.

 

[old gamer]

Just a guess but is onboard graphics disabled in the bios settings

 

[fire_munki]

Nope, still crashed.
Any further ideas?
Will also run memcheck.

 

[ZZZAC]

ram is the culprate for most unstable systems, i have the same probalem, i have to run my ram at 1333mhz rather than 1600mhz, try toning it down a little, otherwise put the fan speed at 100% put on some games and see weather it still crashes, just to cancell out a heat issue

 

[fire_munki]

Silly question where in a x68 bios do i look to slow the ram down?
Its running memcheck now so will try it later.

 

[ZZZAC]

Silly question where in a x68 bios do i look to slow the ram down?
Its running memcheck now so will try it later.

should be under dram frequency or something, i dont have x68 but itll be under dram frequencies, just slow it down a set of mhz (form me 1600 to 1333)

 

[fire_munki]

Hmmmmmm, what looks like 800mhz is looking stable, guess it could be time to email ocuk for some new RAM.

 

[fire_munki]

Nope not stable, crashed not 2 mins after my post!

 

[fire_munki]

Seams to crash on mw3 in groups, runs fine then blank screens and restarts a few times. Plays fine for a few mins then repeats.

 

[fire_munki]

Quick update:
1) memtest: passes find after about 3 hours, will do a longer test tomorrow.
2) speed dropped in BIOS to 800mhz-ish
3) 11.11b drivers
4) all nvidia items deleted, not that there should be any installed bar phys
5) fan running at 100%

Any ideas bar emailing OCUK? Or if there is a OCUK mod here?

 

[Andy__C]

Have you removed all associated registry items?

Its worth running driver sweeper and CC cleaner in safe mode... and remove all drivers - nvidia and ati/amd.

Thats what has solved issues for me in the past with a new catalyst/amd driver version.

 

[fire_munki]

Was all swept, will see what happens.
Does anyone know any software to force a load on the card to test it?

 

[fire_munki]

Also if it is the RAM, (passed 3 hours on memetest with no issues so I think I'm good. Will run it all day tomorrow.) is there anyone who lives in Plym that I could borrow a stick of RAM to try it out?