Problem with blue screens.

[ZacharyR]

Build:
A10 5800k(stock)
8GB of gskill ripjaw 2133mhz (dual channel)
XFX 6670
MSI FM2 A75 E35 Mobo
1tb HDD
500w Corsair PSU

I can't figure out why he is having so many blue screens and why he is getting bad fps on not demanding games with crossfire enabled. I've seen people on youtube get 60fps on BF3 on medium settings with the same build. He gets blue screens on Deus Ex Human Revolution, CS:GO, and his Just Cause 2 won't get the correct resolution and wont start. He has the latest drivers and his Mobo is on the 2.2 BIOS so it supports Richland. When I took out the 6670 and just ran the PC with the iGPU he said games ran smoother than it was when crossfired. I don't have any idea what to do, so help is greatly appreciated.

 

[jnewegger23]

That card is not supported for crossfire:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?gclid=CLGp_teIwLwCFYdgfgodRD8A3A&Item=N82E16814150542&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-Desktop+Graphics+Cards-_-N82E16814150542&ef_id=Uvf82QAABGLqfArn:20140209221412:s
Click on "Specifications" and scroll down to "CrossFireX Support": "No"
There supposedly is a way to work around this using the mobo bios if it allows it but because it's not supported officially you may have some serious driver issue when trying this. Even crossfirex supported cards, boards, etc are known to have issues, microstuttering etc. NVIDIA sli is way less prone to issues, has some scaling difficulties at times depending on the game but notoriously is better overall.
Sorry. 🙁

 

[ZacharyR]

Oh thanks a million man. But, even while running on the APU he still gets blue screen. Any suggestions?

 

[jnewegger23]

Is it all running stock now or do you still have an oc profile at work? Make sure to run only the the apu and at stock settings. Go into bios before loading into the os and check that if you haven't yet. Once set, run in safe mode, uninstall all gpu drivers. Reboot in regular mode and make sure all is stable. Shut down. Reinstall only 1 gpu. Re-establish all related drivers, do NOT run in crossfire and return that extra gpu and save to upgrade. Go back in bios to utilize the 1gpu left if you are having issues at this point (not familiar with your board sorry). Should be all good. If not please share what else you are running into. Not 100% this will work but my best guess at this point. Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Justin S.

 

[ZacharyR]

I was thinking that I could use the CPU on the APU and use the 6670 GPU instead of integrated graphics. Do you think this would be better?

 

[jnewegger23]

That's what I want you to do. Please let me know if that works. You suggested eariler that you already tried this. On top of that make sure it's all in stock settings. Do you know how to get into the bios? Usually hit "Del" or "F2", "F8", or "Esc" repeatedly before the OS tries to load. Start right after you power it on repeatedly and don't stop until you are in the bios. From there, find where it has terminology for the gpu or video card settings and select integrated graphics only or apu or whatever they call it; you're trying to use the onboard cpu graphics and not the gpu at all for now is the idea (so that's your guide while I can't sit next and give more detail unfortunately). You're smart, you can get this! Hopefully that works. If not, try again and if there's a way to "load optimized defaults" or something to that sound then try that. That's what I want to see work. Good luck!