XFX Radeon HD6950 1gb

[Projectile]

Hi All,

Well im just about over this unit and,disapointed i brought a Radeon card. I have been on every website immaginable read stuff about Vertical line crashes but know where it seems is a fix.

It boots up fine and just randomly crashes, can be online browsing or gameing ,or what ever and Zap i get a vertical line screen each time of various colours.I have updated to the latest Bios,

Ive try the bios in default settings Ive tryed it overclocked,i have updated to the 11.5 version drivers, i have updated M/B drivers, ive reformated, reinstalled everything. taken out ram, put ram back in as seperate sticks etc to no avail;

If i disable the driver for the card in Device manager sure i loose resolution but at least i can get on and do stuff.

I havent used AMD/ATI Video cards before and never will again, think they better stick to making CPU's lol.

I have run Furmark, Card temps reached 82 C and thats with Catlyst Control at its peak and runs there for hrs no worries,I can lower CCC settings and yes it runs a whole lot cooler about 67 C then go to browse the web,or do any thing else and Crash. Just sick of it.

Every thing runs as cool as there is a total of 9 (nine) fans running, maybe i could use it as a beer cooler haha!

 

Any ideas would be muchly appreciated,

 

 

My new rig,

Antec 900 case.

Asus P6X58 D-E M/B

i7 960 3.2 Mhz CPU

Thermaltake Fri_OCK King CPU cooler

Kingston pc 2000 ram 3x 2gb =6gb

WD Caviar blue 500gb HDD x2

XFX Radeon HD 6950 1 gb video card, "yuck"

Thermaltake XT Toughpower 775 watt PSU

Win 7 Premium

 

Samsung BX 2440 24" Monitor

 

I bet ive forgotten something lol. But i wont forget the name Radeon.

Edited May 20, 2011 by Projectile

[Owenisbad]

Sounds like it may be a bad card unfortunately, you should be able to rma it though.

[cery25]

try with older driver 11.3 , 11.4 and another adapter from the psu

[Projectile]

try with older driver 11.3 , 11.4 and another adapter from the psu

 

 

aww! thanks i will give it a go.Im an old dude of 65 trying to get my head around this and sort it, but i enjoy my gaming cod4 at present ill keep ya posted.

Thx again

[cery25]

aww! thanks i will give it a go.Im an old dude of 65 trying to get my head around this and sort it, but i enjoy my gaming cod4 at present ill keep ya posted.

Thx again

use driver sweeper to remove the drivers

Edited May 20, 2011 by cery25

[Projectile]

use driver sweeper to remove the drivers

 

 

Hm! still having issues damn thing, Ive tried all drivers but 11.2 / 11.3 / 11.4 etc but Ive found that using driver sweeper has helped a lot, at least i know im getting a clean uninstall /re-install, Now back on 11.5 from XFX site

I must admit its not as bad crashes less frequent on browser, but now crashing with COD4 during game play BSOD.and get this in Mini dump have know idea what this means.

 

052211-19952-01.dmp 22/05/2011 10:59:31 AM DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER 0x000000f7 fffff880`0311bc70 00002458`c1791390 ffffdba7`3e86ec6f 00000000`00000000 ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.exe+7fd00 NT Kernel & System Microsoft® Windows® Operating System Microsoft Corporation 6.1.7601.17592 (win7sp1_gdr.110408-1631) x64 C:\Windows\Minidump\052211-19952-01.dmp 8 15 7601 276,056

 

 

052211-22167-01.dmp 22/05/2011 10:46:02 AM KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED 0x0000001e 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 NETIO.SYS NETIO.SYS+1d4b x64 C:\Windows\Minidump\052211-22167-01.dmp 8 15 7601 276,056.

 

Oh and when it crashes i get major sound crash as well loud buzz over headset.

Once again thanks for the help.

Edited May 22, 2011 by Projectile