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powercolor 5850 PCS +

tenaka

tenaka

tenaka

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Hi all

I'm new here and looking for advice.

Running vista, 850w psu and an ip35 pro mb. Nothing is overclocked and the bios has been cleared.

I ordered a 5850 from here 2 weeks back, initially I had the blue screen 'driver failed' issue, managed to fix this using a driver scrubber.

The card then ran fine for 2 days and performed well.

On the 3rd day 3d applications started to have issues, lots of graphical corruption and eventual crashes. Or the driver has recovered type messages.

Thinking this may be due to overheating I used afterburner to increase the fan speed and to lower to stock speeds. (ati interface wouldnt allow the manual fan speed to work for some reason.)

Lowering the stock speeds stabilised things for a while but then started to happen again.

I cleared the bios and installed various driver versions, I also tried the other PCIe slot but the problems kept occurring.


At this point the PC wont even boot, once past the post screens the monitor remains active (as if it recieving a signal) but nothing is displayed.

I have had a look and there seems to be a lot of trouble with the 5000 series, I think I just got a bad card but would appreciate any advice.

Regards

J
 
do you have onboard VGA to test? if not then you might want to try removing and re-seating the card and possibly your RAM and HDDs as well just to rule them out. although it sounds v much like a gfx problem.

i assume you're running the latest drivers from ATI?
 
mothermachine said:
do you have onboard VGA to test? if not then you might want to try removing and re-seating the card and possibly your RAM and HDDs as well just to rule them out. although it sounds v much like a gfx problem.

i assume you're running the latest drivers from ATI?
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Im trying 10.3 atm, I have also tried 10.2 and the drivers from the polorcolor webby and the ones on the CD that came with it, I have re-seated the gfx card a number of times, I will try the ram today.

I havn't any onboard VGA with my MB, I do have an older ati card in another PC that may fit, can't recall what it is. I am writing from work.
 
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