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MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition/OC - Problem

DisrupTor75

DisrupTor75

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Hi all. Bought this card around 2 months ago

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-128-MS

And while it is excellent at video ect and things generally run fine, i am getting this popping up regularly while in game.

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The game (Black Ops for example) freezes for around 30 seconds, all the sounds are still fine in the background, Then the game continues on. albeit at a lower framerate for a while, as if nothing happened. Yet this is happening for every single game played.

Gpu temps have yet to hit 60c under load so it's not overheating...

I have tried different drivers, full system checks. cleared all junk. Defregged the drives. everything i can think of short of a format / reinstall but that would have to be a last step.

Does anyone have any idea what the cause of this could be? :(

specs are...

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Motherboard = Asus X58 Sabertooth TUF Intel X58
GFX = MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 OC Twin FrozR III Power Edition
CPU = I7 930
Memory = 6gb Patriot DDR3
PSU = OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w
 
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Unstable overclock?

Try downclocking the card (core and memory) and see if the problem goes away.

If the problem goes away after downclocking then you'd best RMA the card rather than mess about with it.
 
Cheers ill give that a try.

*edit* before i do that would downclocking it a bit void my warranty with regard to RMA'ing it back to OCUK?

Here's the default values.

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DisrupTor75 said:
Cheers ill give that a try.

*edit* before i do that would downclocking it a bit void my warranty with regard to RMA'ing it back to OCUK?

Here's the default values.

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In theory overclocking it might but downclocking it no.

Perhaps try the standard HD 6950 speeds of 800MHz on the core and 1250MHz on the memory and see where that gets you.
 
My brother had a similar problem with his.

Does the error display outside of gaming activities? Say, surfing the web? Could be .Net problem.

For some reason, using Chrome instead of Firefox solved all his problems.
 
Skellig said:
My brother had a similar problem with his.

Does the error display outside of gaming activities? Say, surfing the web? Could be .Net problem.

For some reason, using Chrome instead of Firefox solved all his problems.
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No skellig it only appears while in game. Sometimes i can ctrl alt del and get to desktop, click the game icon and go back into it but when i do that it generally stutters like mad for a bit :/ Other times it's totally locked up so need to shutdown.

Browsing, movies, music, everything else is fine. :eek: weird.
 
I've had that exact same error message twice, but haven't seen it in about a month :S I run a HIS 6870. However mine did not occur while gaming. Perhaps it's a driver issue? What version are you running?

I'm on Catalyst 11.6
 
Alright well it's looking like it's (perhaps) not a driver issue. Again, I haven't seen any more than those 2 messages, and that was a few weeks back so I haven't spent any time trying to figure out what happened.

Do other games result in the same problem or is it only Black Ops?
 
pgi947 said:
Tried running a driver sweeper before installing gpu drivers?
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No not tried a sweeper but i have took off and reinstalled the latest drivers for mobo, chipset ect.

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If its crashing at stock speeds i would rma it....
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Thing is would this qualify for an RMA. as normal windows operations it's fine at it's just games, which was of course the main reason for getting the card. My last resort before trying the RMA route would be a wipe and reinstall but that's a drastic step :(

done some digging on this error and it seems to be on a great many AMD cards, be they on laptop onboard ones or pci-e desktop ones.
 
I'd try a full sweep first, you'd be surprised at what gets left over on your system after uninstalling drivers. To rule out it being a fault with the pcie lane is there another pcie slot on your board you could try it in?
 
Id try a sweep or a reformat. I had that error before although not with my 6950. I think its something to do with my driver. I did a fresh windows install and all worked well. If not it is time for RMA.
 
i dunno anything bout ati cards but the same thing happened to me when i installed my MSI Twin Frozr ii 580GTX, using msi afterburner i changed my voltage from 1024 to 1038 and it stopped. The only exception is with crysis 2 dx11 + ultra texture pack where i need to up the voltage to 1050 to stop it happening. Can you run afterburner for ATI cards too?
 
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No ziggy i think you can only use the ati overdrive tool. same principle though i imagine.

Had a quick go of Blops earlier on and was fine for around 20 mins then i got this.

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One hard reset later and windows loaded up ok. Im thinking you were all right about the RMA with this. I was warned about ATI's drivers but after having a 5850 with no problems whatsoever i thought people were exaggerating. Starting to agree with them. :(
 
If that is defiantly on stock clocks just rma it cause thats terrible...

But as said before i would reinstall windows 7 first which is what i do whenever i make a hardware change or a big enough amount of software change's.
 
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