5870 Artifacts

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Misiek

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I have been out of gaming for a while now due MAINLY computer issues. Sure I school and shit going on but I can't game at all if my shit doesn't work. What was going on was my 9800GX2 stopped working. It was giving me a black screen. What I did was reinstall the Operating System and start from scratch. It loaded everything up perfectly. Once the O.S. was up I moved to drivers. Motherboard drivers went through fine but when I was about halfway through graphics drivers I got the same never ending black screen. I figured I got EVGA Life Time Warrenty so I'm having the card replaced. I also realize I need to upgrade my GPU in both my gaming computers (both having graphics issues). My other gaming computer has an 8800GTX which I also JUST sent back to get RMA'ed. Anyway I went out and bought a new card, ATi 5870.

I install the card in my computer and it runs great. Crysis maxed out no problem literally. I'm watching my heat sensors and everything seems perfect. I close Crysis walkaway for an hour. Come back and the entire screen is covered with artifacts. I think/pray it was just an isolated incident and reboot. Once on desktop I went to Google Chrome and then YouTube. About 3 videos in I get the artifacts back. They are so random. I just played Company of Heroes with a couple friends last night for like 4 hours with no problems at all. I can't seem to find what is causing these artifacts. And like I said the computer temperatures are normal and these artifacts happened once when I left the computer idling.

My System:
EVGA 780i
Intel Q9550
4x1GB 800Mhz DDR2
XFX 5870
ThermalTake Toughpower 1000 Watt
Raptor Drive and a couple of storage drives
 
1. Does your case have good air flow?
2. Are you running the latest drivers? If so, try using an earlier version.
3. Did you overclock it?
4. How are the GPU/CPU temperatures?
 
1. Antec 1200 Case and on top of that I added additional fans to push air out.
2. Yes running the latest.
3. No
4. Idling 36C Load 62C
 
Downgrade your drivers for your video card. Also, I sent you a PM :).
 
Yes... RMA... Again... I'm going to try to roll back drivers. Busy ATM though. Gotta try it later.
 
If reverting the driver doesn't work, try turning the computer off overnight. :).
 
I've got a 5870 and have had problems with the latest driver 9.12
Every one before this latest version works without any problems. Give Sou;zz' suggestion a try and use the 9.11 version and see if this changes.
 
I guess the biggest issue is that does your MB support Ati cards; which Evga is it? If you had graphics problems before and still have them maybe you should look at your board. VGA cards usually go bad with with voltage issues.
 
Also, see if your motherboard has a bios update just in case.

If updating everything and trying different drivers doesn't fix it, I don't know what the deal is.

Do you have monitoring software for like voltages and stuff? The mobo should have them, but I'm not sure if you can see them on the GPU. It might help to see if the power supply is working alright...

If nothing helps, RMA time, sadly.
 
I think I got some good news. I rolled back my drivers to 9.11 as advised and updated my BIOS. Computer has been running smoothly for about 4 hours now. I, as of right now, am blaming it all on the drivers.
 
That's excellent news! Glad to hear you got everything fixed. :).
 
Good to hear that the BIOS update went well too. That might also have helped, because it had a lot of stuff about "GPU Compatibility fixes," etc...

Hopefully your card remains bug-free.
 
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