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LIST YOUR COMP SPEC HERE FOR 5850 PROBLEMS

wesley said:
i5
gigabyte P55M-UD2
g.skill pc12800 4GB ddr3
sapphire 5850 HD 1GB
OCZ modxstream pro 600W

working perfectly fine BUT extremely fussy with driver. driver from ATI or sapphire will NOT work, everytime load a game, monitor goes standby, machine reset after a min.

but a driver CD supplied with 5850 work fine :confused: i really dont get it
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i wouldnt class that as working perfectly fine at all
 
Mobo - Asus P5N32-E-SLi (default BIOS settings)
Cpu - Quad Core Q6600
Ram - 4GB DDR2 GeiL
Psu - Hiper 850W
Graphics - xfx 5850
OS - Win7 ultimate
Sound - X-Fi Gamer

Fans spin on and off about for about a minute before POST beep, after that it works perfect. This also happens when rebooting too.
 
I also suggest you all to check out if there is a new BIOS for your motherboard. Yes, for your motherboard. For example all Gigabyte P55 boards got a BIOS update 30th Nov 2009, which fixed the most common bugs (big mouse pointer, crash when playing video and such bugs). It fixed the problems with my HD5870, worth a try for you too IMHO.
 
Takes 30 seconds of blank screen on startup before booting:

Mobo - Asus M2N-E SLI
Cpu - AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.4ghz
Ram - 6Gb, 2 brands, OCZ and another
Psu - Hyper modular 580W
Graphics - HIS 5850
OS - Win7 ultimate 64bit
 
Cpu-E6300 @ 3.0Ghz
Mobo-p35-ds3r
ram-4Gb XMS2
Psu-Corsair HX-520
Grfx-Saph 5850 untouched bios with no overclock.

ive had no issues with the card
 
well this is a new issue, i was borderlands playing for about 10min then the whole screen went pink with lines.

i'm getting fad up of all these issues. im only waiting till 9.12 comes then if it continue giving issues, i will rma it.
 
wesley said:
where?


http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=3165 ??
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Well, you have even newer one, i guess they removed the 30.10.2009 BIOS or postponed the BIOS for your mATX lowend P55 board because they were going to fix the iPhone thingy too :
F4 2009/11/06
1. Enhance memory capability
2. Improve KMPlayer and GOM Player compatibility
3. Fix iphone sync issue
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For example F5 BIOS for P55-UD5 was also from 30.10.2009, without the iphone line, which now reads :

F5 2009/11/09

1. Enhance memory capability
2. Improve KMPlayer and GOM Player compatibility
3. Fix iphone sync issue
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Quick update

Hey guys, just a quick update to say I've finally got round to buying an i7 and now my 5850 works fine. No 100% fan at start up. No 30 second wait at startup. All fine.

I went from an Asus p5n-e sli to a gigabyte p55-ud3r.

I said before I think the cards are fine, and now I'm certain :)

Regards

Spec
 
I am on a Gigabyte board and i have had no issues with mine of yet am sure its board related most of the problems going about.
 
Overslop
Mobo - Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 (latest beta BIOS)
CPU - I7 920 D0
RAM - OcZ Gold 6GB (2GB x 3) DDR3 1600Mhz
PSU - Corsair TX750W
Graphics - 2 VTX 5850s - MSI BIOS on both
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

In Vista Ultimate 64 on the 9.10 driver I used the HDMI socket on card 1. I experienced green pixellation in MKVs. Switched to the DVI socket and everything was fine for a little while. Then MKVs frequently crashed the driver and made the far right of the screen a jumpy mad hippy pixel party.

Upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and the 9.11 beta drivers. So far the only issue I have had is that downloaded video files (avi, mkv etc.) have a slightly (but very annoying) frame rate slow down issue. It isn't constant but occurs quite frequently. Not even sure if the 5850s are the cause, but it seems very likely. Have eliminated the codecs being at fault by using both K-Lite's latest, as well as VLC media player which has its own built in.

Gaming has not crashed at all but Crossfire causes bad juddering in Bioshock. Not sure if that's the cards or the game. On my previous rig, Crossfire didn't cause juddering in this game, but using OS mouse acceleration did... :confused:

Will try some other games using Crossfire to see what the results are like.
 
Spec-Chum said:
Hey guys, just a quick update to say I've finally got round to buying an i7 and now my 5850 works fine. No 100% fan at start up. No 30 second wait at startup. All fine.

I went from an Asus p5n-e sli to a gigabyte p55-ud3r.

I said before I think the cards are fine, and now I'm certain :)

Regards

Spec
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damn, that mean I need to upgrade my mobo and cpu.

I had exactly same problems with same motherboard.. glad you found the solution. Just need to try and justify my decision to my wife now lol
 
Hey all, these are my specs:

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz
Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply
Geil Ultra Series 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-17000 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3)

This is all brand new stuff bought two weeks ago.

When I cold boot, the GPU fan is at full speed (sounds like a jetplane), and the screen is on standby (orange light instead of blue). However the system seems to be working, and I can see the hard drive light loading.

I can also enter my windows password at a point, and see the hard drive working a bit more (loading the desktop). Hitting the power button shuts down the PC as it usually does.

Hard re-starting (switching off and on again) usually gets the 5850 to initialise, at normal operation. No flaws at all when playing heavy games.

My ASUS mobo bios is the latest available (0510), and I did not flash my GPU bios. Also, memtest86 reports everything is fine with my RAM.

There are too many similar cases for it to be a 5850/5870 problem. My guess is it's just a motherboard BIOS problem, and we should expect a BIOS update in the coming weeks...hopefully :(
 
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Unlike a lot of the guys above I've got an XFX 5850 - no issues for the 30 minutes idling before I updated to the ATi drivers I d/l'ed and now I have a whole bunch of issues. Card ocassionally runs fans at 100%, sometimes won't output video before/after BIOS load screen, whenever I do get to log in the whole system runs extremely slowly - mouse hangs up, text takes ages to input etc. I wish I never bothered to install those damn drivers, I've managed to roll back to the CD drivers but no luck in fixing my problems.

I've found it very demoralising after blowing a months pre-tax wages on a new system and going over budget for the 5850 to be left with a useless pile of junk until I find a solution.

System:
Core i5-750
ASUS P7P55D PRO
XFX 5850
G.Skill 4Gb 2000MHz @ CAS9 (yet to underclock to 1667MHz @ CAS7)
2 x 500Gb Samsung F3's
Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium

Can anyone suggest a thorough methode to wholy wipe the drivers clean that doesn't force me to resort to re-installing Win7 from scratch?

/signed a very fed up 5850 owner...
 
Overslop said:
Overslop
Mobo - Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 (latest beta BIOS)
CPU - I7 920 D0
RAM - OcZ Gold 6GB (2GB x 3) DDR3 1600Mhz
PSU - Corsair TX750W
Graphics - 2 VTX 5850s - MSI BIOS on both
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

In Vista Ultimate 64 on the 9.10 driver I used the HDMI socket on card 1. I experienced green pixellation in MKVs. Switched to the DVI socket and everything was fine for a little while. Then MKVs frequently crashed the driver and made the far right of the screen a jumpy mad hippy pixel party.

Upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and the 9.11 beta drivers. So far the only issue I have had is that downloaded video files (avi, mkv etc.) have a slightly (but very annoying) frame rate slow down issue. It isn't constant but occurs quite frequently. Not even sure if the 5850s are the cause, but it seems very likely. Have eliminated the codecs being at fault by using both K-Lite's latest, as well as VLC media player which has its own built in.

Gaming has not crashed at all but Crossfire causes bad juddering in Bioshock. Not sure if that's the cards or the game. On my previous rig, Crossfire didn't cause juddering in this game, but using OS mouse acceleration did... :confused:

Will try some other games using Crossfire to see what the results are like.
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Don't know exactly what changed but video files are now playing fine. :)

As for Bioshock, I had forgot to OC my CPU since installing Windows 7. After doing that, it played at an almost solid 60FPS without stuttering. :)

ArmA II totally maxed out at 1920x1080 is now running really well too! :eek: :D

With 2 275s in SLi, I was getting FPS in the low teens/single figures when the fighting kicked off. But the 5850s manage great - 40FPS minimum, usually 50-60. :)
 
Cyrl said:
Unlike a lot of the guys above I've got an XFX 5850 - no issues for the 30 minutes idling before I updated to the ATi drivers I d/l'ed and now I have a whole bunch of issues. Card ocassionally runs fans at 100%, sometimes won't output video before/after BIOS load screen, whenever I do get to log in the whole system runs extremely slowly - mouse hangs up, text takes ages to input etc. I wish I never bothered to install those damn drivers, I've managed to roll back to the CD drivers but no luck in fixing my problems.

I've found it very demoralising after blowing a months pre-tax wages on a new system and going over budget for the 5850 to be left with a useless pile of junk until I find a solution.

System:
Core i5-750
ASUS P7P55D PRO
XFX 5850
G.Skill 4Gb 2000MHz @ CAS9 (yet to underclock to 1667MHz @ CAS7)
2 x 500Gb Samsung F3's
Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium

Can anyone suggest a thorough methode to wholy wipe the drivers clean that doesn't force me to resort to re-installing Win7 from scratch?

/signed a very fed up 5850 owner...
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You tried the 9.11 betas?
 
Wonder of wonders, I managed a successful cold-boot finally!!

Here's what I suggest you do:

1) Update your BIOS to latest version from within BIOS itself (EzFlash if using an ASUS motherboard). Do not update BIOS from windows.

2) Make sure your ram is running stable at your selected timings/speed by running memtest86 for a couple of hours - with no errors.

3) Remove the [Auto] setting for the PCI Express frequency, and set it to 100.

After doing all this, I switched off the PC for around 3 hours, including power from mains supply. I then tried it, and it booted without a hitch!

I'll try again after a 12 hour pause, and hopefully it will work again.
 
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