possible bad ati 4870 card

redknight333

redknight333

redknight333

Associate
Joined
17 Apr 2007
Posts
447
I've been getting the odd pc shut down one i had other day late at night around 11pm, i was just watching a video file and pop the system shut down. I opened the side of the case to find one of the red LED on D1601, doing a bit of google searching i found was D1601 - Red LED On, shows critical temperature fault. oh and the video card fan was really speeding up. I've been using system fine for days now and its just done it again, this time i just started up WOW and pop system shut down also took note of this if it helps,

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1000007f
BCP1: 00000000
BCP2: 00000000
BCP3: 00000000
BCP4: 00000000

I'm running a oldish system now
q6600
asus p5k-e wifi
ati 4870
2gb memory
PSU corsair GS 700

What do you all think, a new video card is needed or what?
if so which of the ati HD 6000 series would be ok for this system?
 
If you are still happy with the performance of the 4870 then it would be worth popping off the cooler giving everything a good clean and reapply some fresh thermal paste. Who manufactured the card? Is it possible to RMA it?
 
Sapphire and i got the card back in 04/04/09 so i guess RMA is out of the order, but do you think its a bad card or just dust. I'm running hardware monitor and its got a temp of 44c just standing doing nothing. As for the performence i was thinking of a system upgrade this year but if i can get abit more life out of this one all the better but i dont wanna throw money at a bad system, if its terminal.
 
First I would run a full virus scan & then a hard disk diagnostic, then memtest, which will rule out memory issues.

As to the 4870, remove the cooler & cleaned out the crud, I just cleaned my Gainward 4870 yesterday, it was full of compacted crud between the fins, which you couldn't see because of the shroud.
 
Last edited:
It's still less than 3 years old, you should check your warranty details. I'm not sure how Sapphire's works. Even if you buy a new card you can might be able to get the 4870 fixed and then sell it.
 
so its a new card then, so which of the 6000 series cards would beat the 4870 and play most of the latest games at a nice high setting without making my pc sound like a jet fighter taking off?
 
could buy cheap used 5000 series card too,love my 5870 but i would recommend new paste and a clean
 
You are best off waiting until the next gen mid-range cards are released by Amd and Nvidia. Even if you don't plan on getting one they should shuffle the prices of the current ones downwards.

That being said, if you can't wait then the 6770 is about the same speed as a 4870 a 6870 will offer a nice boost. There are some 6850's on offer here somewhere for £90ish which are also a great deal.
 
I agree with stulid, although WOW is nvidia biased i do believe so...... cancel your order and you are one post shy of getting free delivery too!!

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17943556&posted=1&utm_source=forums&utm_medium=banner

YOUR BASKET
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 460 Superclocked *** 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P3-1363-KR) £119.99
Total : £129.89 (includes shipping : £8.25).



The *** edition is overclocked higher than it's more expensive slower brother (i dont get it either the pricing). I run the evga gtx 460SC 1GB card at 900mhz on my HTPC. It also adds cuda support which assists the CPU when you use some software (adobe, video en/decoders etc) which has helped keep my old AMD Phenom 2 CPU useful.

Any questions or further problems you know where we are :)
 
well more news got the ati 6850 card installed, got drivers from ati site installed those, and i think it shut down around 10:30am this morning in the system logs i got a load of erorrs

EventID 101
Event source yukonw7
LocaleID 2057

Display went off so i dont know what to do now, any ideas? I could try and reinstall OS on another spare HD i have see if it helps.
I'm getting to that point were i just build new system, i could reuse OS and case
 
Also found these in the secrity logs

Code integrity determined that the image hash of a file is not valid. The file could be corrupt due to unauthorized modification or the invalid hash could indicate a potential disk device error.

File Name: \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\drivers\ASPI32.SYS

Event ID 5038
Event source microsoft-windows-security-auditing
Locale ID 2057

possible bad boot HD?
 
Nightglow said:
First I would run a full virus scan & then a hard disk diagnostic, then memtest, which will rule out memory issues.

As to the 4870, remove the cooler & cleaned out the crud, I just cleaned my Gainward 4870 yesterday, it was full of compacted crud between the fins, which you couldn't see because of the shroud.
Click to expand...

redknight333 said:
possible bad boot HD?
Click to expand...

Yes its possible, But its already been suggested to try ruling theses things out!
 
If your PC is cutting out with no error message then it's due to one of these things:

- Power loss; bad/unstable mains (do your lights flicker?) or faulty/too weak PSU.
- PSU thermal safety cut-off.
- CPU thermal safety cut-off.
- GPU thermal safety cut-off.
- Damaged USB ports (these can cause a short).
- Faulty motherboard (not too likely but can't be ruled out).
- Various other things which are less likely but possible, eg. damaged cabling causing a short.

Just as an example, I can't count the number of "faulty" laptops I've seen which just needed a good blast of air duster.

You've already swapped the graphics card so you know it's not that. So in order of priority, I'd check the following:

- Visually check all USB ports. If any seem damaged, you've probably found your problem.
- Ensure your PC case has good airflow, ie. make sure all fans and air filters are free of dust, make sure there is room around the case for air to flow into and out of the vents, and make sure all the case fans are working.
- Ensure the PSU fan is spinning and the PSU itself is free of dust. Blast it with air duster; PSUs have heatsinks too! :D
- Ensure All heatsinks are properly attached and free of dust. This effectively means the CPU heatsink in your case; clean it if necessary and make sure it's not wonky.
- Check the CPU fan settings in the BIOS; generally it's best to leave it on auto if there are any doubts about temperature or stability.
- Undo any overclocking.


In my experience, the error log is always full of errors so don't give it too much weight unless you really know how to look for a needle in that haystack. A HDD problem would not normally cause your system to cut out, but A HDD diagnostic wouldn't be a bad idea if you're worried about it - it's always best to catch potential HDD issues early. You can get the diagnostic utility from the drive manufacturer's website.

Good luck.
 
I may trying a reinstall on a spare HD if it happens again, it may have corrupted some files on boot from all the system shut downs its been getting, its a raptor 300gb drive so its going to be very easy to get errors, with the speeds of those drives run at 10000RPM.
 
ok i think its time to change the psu now if this doesn't fix it i will be building a new upto date system. What i wanna know is if the new psu does not fix the system shut downs will the so called fault in the system somewhere damage the new psu, i'm asking because i would like to reuse the new psu?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom