AMD Radeon R9 270, Crashes, Blue Screen, Fps Drop, high temperatures.

[SsDavidDsS]

Hello everyone,

Ever since I've installed the AMD Radeon R9 270 to my pc i get a lot of crashes, blue screens and from time to time my fps drops randomly, also the card gets very hot. I've currently taken it out so I can write in the forum. I don't know if the card is broken/ faulty or just my pc can't handle it however I have recently updated my pc so it should be working fine.

Here is what I have:
Motherboard: http://uk.msi.com/product/mb/B85MG43.html#hero-overview
Processor: http://ark.intel.com/products/75048/Intel-Core-i5-4670K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz
Power Supply: http://www.awd-it.co.uk/cit-700w-black-edition-pc-power-supply-psu-model-700ub.html
Memory: 8.00GB (7.87 Usable)
System Type: 64Bit Operating System

If there is any more information that is needed please let me know!

 

[SsDavidDsS]

Just so everyone knows I have just ordered the supply unit.
The arrival date is the 10th-14th so that's when I will post back here, after I've checked it. Hopefully it will be earlier!

 

[sora]

That horrible power supply could be the reason.

This sounds like the problem OP! Go with an XFX 650W or Seasonic 620W power supply.

 

[SsDavidDsS]

Hello everyone, just wanted to let you know my power supply arrived yesterday morning, I mounted it in the afternoon. Till today i've had only 8 freezes, this time was a little different because everytime it froze it went to blue screen, this time the pc froze and it just froze on my screen, then it reset the pc. This happened on only 1 of the freezes.

The other 7 were from this:
Something to note is sometimes what happens is my pc freeze for 5-15 seconds and I get a little message at the bottom that says: Display driver AMD driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Could the problem then be a faulty graphics card?

 

[RCFProd]

I think your GPU is damaged after all those crashes etc.

It is recommended to uninstall the graphics drivers and also take the GPU out of your PC completely.

Test the PC with integrated graphics instead of the graphics card.

See if your system is stable like this.

 

[rolli59]

Hello everyone, just wanted to let you know my power supply arrived yesterday morning, I mounted it in the afternoon. Till today i've had only 8 freezes, this time was a little different because everytime it froze it went to blue screen, this time the pc froze and it just froze on my screen, then it reset the pc. This happened on only 1 of the freezes.

The other 7 were from this:
Something to note is sometimes what happens is my pc freeze for 5-15 seconds and I get a little message at the bottom that says: Display driver AMD driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

Could the problem then be a faulty graphics card?

Yes as I stated in my first response it is a bad card! Normally PSU issues would be sudden shut downs.

 

[SsDavidDsS]

I think your GPU is damaged after all those crashes etc.

It is recommended to uninstall the graphics drivers and also take the GPU out of your PC completely.

Test the PC with integrated graphics instead of the graphics card.

See if your system is stable like this.

I've done exactly what you've said, everything seems fine no crashes nothing like that. The only problem I have noticed is certain games fps has dropped by quite a bit, had to regulate the graphics to quite low however understand that its due to not having a sufficient graphics card. Apart from that it seems to be working perfectly fine.

 

[rolli59]

Which again points to your discrete card being bad!

 

[SsDavidDsS]

Which again points to your discrete card being bad!

What I've done is I have taken my graphics card back to the shop i bought it from, they checked the card and said the card was faulty. I had to wait around a week for the card to arrive and instead of the original radeon video card i had I got an overclocked version of it; Sapphire Vapor-x R9 270.

The card itself doesn't give me any blue screens no crashes nothing like that, the card isn't over-heating. However one thing I have noticed is that in some games the fps drops dramitacally. For example yesterday I was playing a game called Alien Isolation and was working at 30-60 fps. However just a couple of mins ago I turned it on to check if the ps3 controller I installed on my pc works with the game, which it did. The fps dropped to around 10-15. I don't know whats going on, I've installed the latest drivers for the graphics card and I will carry on trying and find out why it does that.

Just like to thank everyone so far for all of your kind help, we've narrowed down the problem I had and we are getting a step closer.

 

[rolli59]

Have you taken your CPU temp?