Graphics card problems

[Pale Shaza]

I have been having loads of problems with my new 'MSI ATI Radeon HD 6850 Cyclone Power Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card', basically about 70% of the time, when I run a game (skyrim and css) it crashes, coming up with a blank screen. At first it did the multi coloured lines screen, now it's always the blank one.

For me it crashes on heaven and runs on the kombustor (benchmarks). OCUK said that heaven was a benchmark the tested it on and it worked.

I've done pretty much everything I (and others) could think of without replacing my hardware:

I've reinstalled the OS (x2)
Updated BIOS + Chipset
Installed the ATI catalyst drivers multiple times (using driver sweep to get rid of them each time)
I've put the card in both my PCIe 2.0 slots
Removed my CPU Overclock.

And a number of other things.

I've also RMA'd the card with OCUK when I was certain it was a hardware issue (and others who heard my problems advised me aswell).

I had it sent back saying the card was not faulty.

I put the card in, it's still not working for me.

Here is my system overview from Sandra:


SiSoftware Sandra

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Computer
Model : Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
Workgroup : WORKGROUP
Host Name : Dan-PC
User : Dan

Processor
Model : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
Speed : 2.8GHz
Cores per Processor : 4 Unit(s)
Threads per Core : 2 Unit(s)
Type : Quad-Core
Integrated Data Cache : 4x 32kB, Synchronous, Write-Thru, 8-way, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing
L2 On-board Cache : 4x 256kB, ECC, Synchronous, ATC, 8-way, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing
L3 On-board Cache : 8MB, ECC, Synchronous, ATC, 16-way, Exclusive, 64 byte line size, 8 threads sharing

Computer
Mainboard : Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
BIOS : Award (Phoenix) Fk1 05/10/2011
Bus(es) : X-Bus PCI PCIe IMB USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
Multi-Processor (MP) Support : No
Multi-Processor Advanced PIC (APIC) : Yes
Total Memory : 6GB DIMM DDR3

Chipset
Model : Giga-Byte X58 I/O Hub
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 2.4GHz (4.79GHz)

Chipset
Model : Giga-Byte Core Desktop (Bloomfield) UnCore
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 2.4GHz (4.79GHz)
Total Memory : 6GB DIMM DDR3
Channels : 3
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 532MHz (1GHz)

Memory Module(s)
Memory Module : Corsair CM3X2G1600C9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600 (9-9-9-24 5-34-10-5)
Memory Module : Corsair CM3X2G1600C9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600 (9-9-9-24 5-34-10-5)
Memory Module : Corsair CM3X2G1600C9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-12800U DDR3-1600 (9-9-9-24 5-34-10-5)

Video System
Video Adapter : AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series (960 SM5.0 860MHz, 1GB 1.1GHz, PCIe 2.00 x16)

Graphics Processor
OpenCL Processor : AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series (960SP 12C 860MHz, 1GB 1.1GHz)
Compute Shader Processor : AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series (960SP 860MHz, 1010.3MB 1.1GHz)

Storage Devices
Seagate ST3500418AS (500.1GB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm, NCQ, 16MB Cache) : 466GB (C
WD 10EADS External 1TB (USB) : 932GB (F (G (H
Optiarc DVD RW AD-5240S (SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache) : N/A (D

Logical Storage Devices
System Reserved : 100MB (NTFS)
Hard Disk (F : N/A @ WD 10EADS External 1TB (USB)
Internal Hard Drive 1 (C : 466GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST3500418AS (500.1GB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm, NCQ, 16MB Cache)
BackUp (G : 439GB (NTFS) @ WD 10EADS External 1TB (USB)
New Volume (H : 146GB (NTFS) @ WD 10EADS External 1TB (USB)
Optical Drive (D : N/A @ Optiarc DVD RW AD-5240S (SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache)

Peripherals
LPC Hub Controller 1 : Giga-Byte LPC Interface Controller
LPC Legacy Controller 1 : ITE IT8720F
Audio Device : Giga-Byte HD Audio Controller
Audio Device : MSI AA88h
Audio Codec : ATI (AMD) HDMI Audio
Serial Port(s) : 1
Disk Controller : Giga-Byte 4 port SATA IDE Controller
Disk Controller : Giga-Byte 2 port SATA IDE Controller
Disk Controller : Giga-Byte JMB36X PCIE-to-SATAII/IDE RAID Controller
USB Controller 1 : Giga-Byte USB UHCI Controller #4
USB Controller 2 : Giga-Byte USB UHCI Controller #5
USB Controller 3 : Giga-Byte USB UHCI Controller #6
USB Controller 4 : Giga-Byte USB EHCI Controller #2
USB Controller 5 : Giga-Byte USB UHCI Controller #1
USB Controller 6 : Giga-Byte USB UHCI Controller #2
USB Controller 7 : Giga-Byte USB UHCI Controller #3
USB Controller 8 : Giga-Byte USB EHCI Controller #1
FireWire/1394 Controller 1 : Giga-Byte TSB43AB23 1394a-2000 OHCI PHY/link-layer Controller
SMBus/i2c Controller 1 : Intel 801xx/63xx SMBus

Printers and Faxes
Printer : Send To Microsoft OneNote 2010 Driver (1200x1200, Colour)
Printer : Microsoft XPS Document Writer (600x600, Colour)
Fax : Microsoft Shared Fax Driver (200x200)

Network Services
Network Adapter : Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20) (Ethernet, 100Mbps)
Wireless Adapter 1 : Belkin N Wireless USB Adapter

Power Management
Mains (AC) Line Status : On-Line

Operating System
Windows System : Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 6.01.7601 (Service Pack 1)
Platform Compliance : x64

Windows Experience Index
Current System : 5.5

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(I dunno why it says windows ultimate, I did use that but I now use windows professional due to my uni. That whole statement is completely wrong, unless it could somehow still there underlying since my reinstall?)


Anyway I was looking at my event logger after the last crash and it says some strange things in the ACEEventLog (I don't know what that is, I only looked in it for the first time today.)

Around the time it last crashed this event popped up:

'0000000042: 2011-12-01 20:32:01:741 Exception <Saving Xml Document>: Access to the path 'C:\ProgramData\ATI\ACE\Profiles.xml' is denied.
Exception Called by: ATI.ACE.APM.Server.XmlDocumentSaver::SaverWorker processID:04104 threadID ) domainNameCCC.exe ) assemblyNameAPM.Server, Version=3.5.4315.38573, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)'

and then this around when I rebooted:

'0000000001: 2011-12-01 20:35:25:404 Failed to merge manifest file: C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\MOM-InstallProxy\mom-installproxy.xml with exception: Could not find file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\MOM-InstallProxy\mom-installproxy.xml'.
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Foundation.XManifestation::ReadManifest processID:03740 threadID ) domainNameCCC.exe ) assemblyNameCLI.Foundation.XManifest, Version=3.5.4315.38614, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)'

and this:

'0000000007: 2011-12-01 20:35:26:824 FAILED:ADL_Display_SLSGrid_Caps and return value is: -1
Error Called by: ATI.ACE.CLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime.RT_GraphicsAdapter_N::CheckSLSSupported processID:03740 threadIDCCCThreadNew:Runtime) domainNameCCC.exe ) assemblyNameCLI.Caste.Graphics.Runtime, Version=3.5.4315.38577, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)'

this one came up and 5 times consecutively:

'0000000010: 2011-12-01 20:35:28:154 Exception: No value exists with that name.
Exception Called by: ATI.ACE.LOG.Foundation.Implementation.Setting:eleteRegistryFromUser processID:03740 threadIDCCCThreadNew:Runtime) domainNameCCC.exe ) assemblyNameLOG.Foundation.Implementation, Version=3.5.4315.38596, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)'

and also this one appeared like 20 times consecutively aswell:

'0000000027: 2011-12-01 20:11:59:537 Exception: No value exists with that name.
Exception Called by: ATI.ACE.LOG.Foundation.Implementation.Setting:eleteRegistryFromUser processID:04104 threadID ) domainNameCCC.exe ) assemblyNameLOG.Foundation.Implementation, Version=3.5.4315.38596, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90ba9c70f846762e)'


They're all about the ATI and catalyst control centre I suppose? could this be the cause of the problem whatever 'this' is?

one thing is that I was getting loads of AceEventLog events including fails etc... when I had my old card in again (HD4650) and I never get any problems with that.)

Help please!