My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

[=98=]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

Well, looks like im'a have to do a reinstall. I hope it fixes the problem, as I don't really want to have to buy a new GPU.

[=98=]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

Well, I did a complete re-install of Windows, full format and the display driver is still crashing. I can only assume the graphics card is dying.

Any other suggestions as to what it may be. Seems to occur after about 15 mins of gameplay or slightly later.

This time, the screen froze, sounds started looping, the entire screen flashed red and then gave me the "dirt.exe has stopped responding" then when I pressed close application, up popped "Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has successfully recovered.".


New card time? Anyone ever RMA'd to Powercolour?

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

get a HD4890!!!!

Edit: OT but is the Steam plug in thingymahbob not work any more?

[=98=]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

Well, I ran 20 minutes of Furmark which disproves my idea that the card or PSU is going. I assume it must just hate DiRt....

[=98=]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

Good news everyone, it's now crashing at stock in Team Fortress 2 with 9.4 drivers.

Final choice is to rewind to 8.12's and if that doesn't work... well... who knows.

[Cmac[XI]]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

http://www.powercolor.com/eng/members_login_2.asp?url=support_RMAservice_1.asp

Start there for the RMA however searching around I am yet to find one RMA story that was solved within less than a couple of weeks from powercolor, longer if your not in the USA so really dont expect anything super quick unless you can RMA it through wherever you bought it.

[=98=]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

Well, now my once stable overclock is dying within 10 minutes of Prime95. For the first time ever, i'm completely stumped.

At the moment, this is the order in which i think things have gone wrong:

Motherboard dying - most likely
GPU dying - Seems less likely now
PSU dying - Corsair's can't die can they (ohno)

I just don't know what to do. I don't want to spend money and find the problem isn't fixed. At least I have a warranty I guess?

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

corsairs dont die much but it still happens unfortunately i doubt it is the power supply though its more likely to be GPU/Motherboard.

Whats made you think its the motherboard anyway?

[=98=]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

Well, at Uni I had a stable overclock of 467 x 8, I had stressed it for about 8 hours fine. But, when I went to do it again yesterday in my midst of troubleshooting, it would fail after 10 minutes.

It's always had some stupid bugs as well such as not being able to boot on the first memory strap and was so fussy about overclocking it drove me mad.

It could well be that it's not my motherboard at all, but, god knows.

Now i'm stuck. £113 for the UD3R with one PCI-E slot or £130 for the UD3P with two PCI-E slots?

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

Well you will no doubt move to i5 before you move to xfire so id just go for the cheaper option.

[AlecJ32]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

Now i'm stuck. £113 for the UD3R with one PCI-E slot or £130 for the UD3P with two PCI-E slots?

Since Cross-Fire offers much fewer practical uses for two PCI-Express x16 slots, and your current card is an ATI card, not an Nvidia card, I personally don't think it's worth it.

Nvidia offers CUDA, and various other features where a low-end card could be used to supplement your high end card in certain performance situations, however, all ATI offers is Cross-fire, which requires a second card of the same GPU type. Unless you plan on buying a second high end ATI GPU in the near future, it wouldn't really be worth it to get the extra PCI-Express slot.

If you had an Nvidia card, you could possibly have gotten a hold of a low-end Geforce 8 or newer card to use as a CUDA co-processor for PhysX, in which case the second PCI-Express slot could have been worth it. But you don't, so that just leaves full-blown crossfire.

[=98=]

Re: My graphics card, it is dying>!>!,.1,.mdngnfg

I decided on the single slot UD3R. By the time i'd ever consider going Crossfire/SLI, i'll probably be on i5 or whatever format.

I really hope this fixes things :/