Hi all,
When playing Dawn of War and other games my monitor goes black, my card revs up (as though it is resetting) and then if I'm lucky, the game continues. During this period a little notification pops up in the taskbar saying "your display adapter has stopped responding but has recovered."
There seems to be no pattern to these crashes, it can occur after 10 minutes or over the space of an hour. Other than the screen turning black there seems to be no other problems - no blue screen of death and the PC keeps running. Only once has it reset entirely following the problem. It's basically as though the card just 'stops' for a few seconds.
In another game, X3, the game will freeze for about 10 seconds and the HUD will vanish and reappear. Other than that, most games thend to lag quite more than I'd have though for such a powerful card.
Anyway, I've been searching online for a fix for ages but nothing really comes up. I'm also currently talking to sapphire to see if there's a fix but they're not being much use, and ATI help pointed me towards a solution to a problem I didn't even ask about. The guy then just suggested I RMA, something I don't want to do if the card is actually fine.
System specs are:
Vista x64
MSI K9A2 Platinum
Phenom 9850
4 GB Ram
Sapphire 4870x2
All drivers are up to date for the card and motherboard, and windows update has everything installed. Other than that, haven't a clue what the problem is. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance guys,
M
When playing Dawn of War and other games my monitor goes black, my card revs up (as though it is resetting) and then if I'm lucky, the game continues. During this period a little notification pops up in the taskbar saying "your display adapter has stopped responding but has recovered."
There seems to be no pattern to these crashes, it can occur after 10 minutes or over the space of an hour. Other than the screen turning black there seems to be no other problems - no blue screen of death and the PC keeps running. Only once has it reset entirely following the problem. It's basically as though the card just 'stops' for a few seconds.
In another game, X3, the game will freeze for about 10 seconds and the HUD will vanish and reappear. Other than that, most games thend to lag quite more than I'd have though for such a powerful card.
Anyway, I've been searching online for a fix for ages but nothing really comes up. I'm also currently talking to sapphire to see if there's a fix but they're not being much use, and ATI help pointed me towards a solution to a problem I didn't even ask about. The guy then just suggested I RMA, something I don't want to do if the card is actually fine.
System specs are:
Vista x64
MSI K9A2 Platinum
Phenom 9850
4 GB Ram
Sapphire 4870x2
All drivers are up to date for the card and motherboard, and windows update has everything installed. Other than that, haven't a clue what the problem is. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance guys,
M