AMD 6950 Drivers Keep Crashing

[123awesomeguy]

I recently bought myself a Radeon 6950 (it was on sale and I don't have a great budget) and it has been giving me nothing but trouble. Whenever I try running any game on windows it gives me the black screen of death in the middle of almost any game (Dead space, Minecraft, Fallout New Vegas, Team Fortress 2, etc). When it does crash, the system still runs with power.
I originally tried the card on Zorin Ubuntu Linux and it ran just fine.
With Windows, I've tried multiple drivers and all of them have given me the same results. However, I haven't tried many drivers.
Does anyone have any tips or might know what is going on?
My specs:
MSI 870A-G54 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X6 1055 1.3v 2800 mhz Thuban
6 gb of RAM
1x 500 gb HDD
1x 120 SSD
1x DVD ROM
1x Floppy Drive
AMD 6950 Power Color.

 

[minarix]

what drivers have you been trying, the crimson ones or the legacy ones?

what OS are you running? this is for win 7 legacy http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/embedded/previous?os=Windows+7

 

[junkeymonkey]

for me with a 7850 13.12 is the latest I use .. I tried the newer ones out but end up right back on 13.12 with in days [all ways seemed to be something with the newer above 13.12 ]

good luck

 

[123awesomeguy]

I'm using Windows 7 and the current driver that works best for me as of now is the Crimson 15.12 It runs better but still crashes when I try playing Fallout New Vegas.

 

[junkeymonkey]

that's why I stay with 13.12 -0- issues on it with older amd cards the latest ones above that just like what you are getting [but that's just me ]

 

[123awesomeguy]

I just did a clean install of AMD catalyst 13.12 and I still have no luck.

 

[junkeymonkey]

hard to say - you could test the card in another computer to see if its the card if your getting that many issues something on the card may of or starting to fail ?? try another card on your board to see if then something is up with that ?

 

[Alan Caldwell]

First of all you need to TOTALLY remove all the old drivers. Use this link.
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
Note:
Select the respective company(i.e Nvidia or ATI) drivers to be uninstalled.
Use clean and restart option.
And then install the new drivers after rebooting.

 

[123awesomeguy]

Sorry that I've been idle for the previous month, got busy. Anyways, I've been using DDU to remove all my drivers since the beginning. Still, no luck. I have not yet had the chance to try the card on someone else's PC because most of my friends are picky about what goes into their computer rig.

 

[123awesomeguy]

I think I found out the reason: My motherboard (MSI 870A-G54) only has PCI-E 2.0 slots, while the Radeon hd 6950 uses a PCI-E 2.1

 

[junkeymonkey]

that's not a issue at all there compatible just like a pcie 2 card works fine in pcie3 board and all - only with some older pcie 1 motherboards is there issue

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/319917-33-express-express

also form here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

 

[123awesomeguy]

I understand that a higher PCIE slot would work with a lower PCIE card, however what I'm trying to get at is that my card is 2.1 and my Motherboard is only a 2.0 Would that still work?

 

[junkeymonkey]

just like a pcie 3 card works in a pcie 2 slot

 

[123awesomeguy]

Damn. I thought I was onto something. Welp, I'm out of ideas.