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LIST YOUR COMP SPEC HERE FOR 5850 PROBLEMS

gareth170 said:
when i first got the card sometimes when i got in to windows the whole screen goes yellow or green or white or black, then after about 50 seconds it comes back saying driver not responding and the right side of the screen goes wierd then comes back to normal. its also did this sometimes when watching tv or doing something on the desktop.

but since i flashed it to the asus 5850 unlocked bios, it hasn't happened much, only about once a week.

motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P F7 bios
cpu: Phenom II 720 @ 3.7ghz / 2.4ghz NB
ram: Patriot G-Series AMD 4GB DDR3 1600MHz @ 1333mhz 6-6-6-20 1T 1.7v
gpu: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850
hdd: 6 hard drives
optical drives: 2 DVD±RW Drives & Blu-Ray Rewriter
sound card: X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
psu: Tagan PipeRock 900w Modular
os: Win xp & Win 7 64bit
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gareth170 said:
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.
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update

i've seem to of fixed my issues by setting the pcie to 101mhz. for about a week now it as been running fine
 
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Problem #1: A new PCI device every time I get into Windows since installing my 5850. The only other card I have is a PCI soundcard which works fine, both cards have been taken out and reseated but same result.

Problem #2: VPU kicks in every now and again for no reason as far as I can determine.
 
andrea86 said:
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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After long pauses, I still get boot issues. But this time the pattern is always the same:

1) No screen display (orange light) and fan is at 100%, and the bios beeps 2 quick beeps followed by 8 other quick beeps.

2) I have read that this means "bad GPU/bad GPU memory"...which can also be possible to a simple re-fitting of memory and GPU - can anybody confirm?

3) Powering down (via Power button on case) and Restarting (again via power button on case), the PC starts up just fine. No issues.

Thanks :)
 
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gareth170 said:
when i first got the card sometimes when i got in to windows the whole screen goes yellow or green or white or black, then after about 50 seconds it comes back saying driver not responding and the right side of the screen goes wierd then comes back to normal. its also did this sometimes when watching tv or doing something on the desktop.

but since i flashed it to the asus 5850 unlocked bios, it hasn't happened much, only about once a week.

motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P F7 bios
cpu: Phenom II 720 @ 3.7ghz / 2.4ghz NB
ram: Patriot G-Series AMD 4GB DDR3 1600MHz @ 1333mhz 6-6-6-20 1T 1.7v
gpu: Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850
hdd: 6 hard drives
optical drives: 2 DVD±RW Drives & Blu-Ray Rewriter
sound card: X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
psu: Tagan PipeRock 900w Modular
os: Win xp & Win 7 64bit
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gareth170 said:
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.
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gareth170 said:
update

i've seem to of fixed my issues by setting the pcie to 101mhz. for about a week now it as been running fine
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another update

my issues seem to of came back.. the screen randomy goes yellow or green then gets the "driver not responding" message.

i'm really getting sick of it now...

i know i have faulty ram which i will rma in the next week or two, but i've underclocked them for now to have a stable system. so i don't think it's that making the problems
 
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gareth170 said:
yep....

it happens more then watching tv, last night it happened 4 times,

the UVO clock can't be clocked up, so it can't be overclocking somewhere
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I had this happen a couple of times when watching TV on the 9.10 drivers and I thought it had gone away with the 9.11s but it has happened once. Since then I've upped the vcore to 1.1v and there's been no problems, touch wood.

It only ever happened in VMC and not wintv, which doesn't use GPU acceleration, which is what got me thinking. My card needs more voltage for the overclocks that other people are getting so I figured maybe it might need a little more for stock too and so far that's proved to be right. Maybe ATI have been to optimistic about the stock voltage of these cards.
 
wolvers69 said:
I had this happen a couple of times when watching TV on the 9.10 drivers and I thought it had gone away with the 9.11s but it has happened once. Since then I've upped the vcore to 1.1v and there's been no problems, touch wood.

It only ever happened in VMC and not wintv, which doesn't use GPU acceleration, which is what got me thinking. My card needs more voltage for the overclocks that other people are getting so I figured maybe it might need a little more for stock too and so far that's proved to be right. Maybe ATI have been to optimistic about the stock voltage of these cards.
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but if thats the case then its faulty because its problems on stock voltage.

i use Windows Media Center which use GPU acceleration and it happens on both dvb-t & dvb-s2 HD, i know its not the tv card making the issues
 
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Well it's up to you which way you want to look at it. Try it out first and see if it helps. It may turn out to be irrelevant to you.
 
PC as below, only one problem: monitor goes to standby while playing some games like rFactor (COD MW2, Shift is ok). I tried OC and clocks below default, still the same, drivers 9.11 and 9.10, somethimes screen goes to grey or different color and comes back after few seconds, same with standby it can be black for 20-30sec and then comeback to game, but sometimes PC reset is the only solution. I think it's the drivers problem, anyone have the same, any known solution?
 
I think that the voltage at 400/900 is the same as full 3d so if you've flashed the Asus bios you can just tweak it with afterburner or the Asus app.

Are you watching TV in VMC/7MC?
 
wolvers69 said:
I think that the voltage at 400/900 is the same as full 3d so if you've flashed the Asus bios you can just tweak it with afterburner or the Asus app.

Are you watching TV in VMC/7MC?
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the voltage at 400/900 isn't the same as full 3d.

400/900 (which is uvo clock) is 1.000v
full 3d is 1.087v

i've already got the asus bios on, afterburner only ups the 3d voltage.

i use Windows Media Center which use GPU acceleration and it happens on both dvb-t & dvb-s2 HD, i know its not the tv card making the issues
 
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