Radeon 5000 vertical stripes problem

[XD_dued]

Hmmm...I've looked on many forums, and it seems that the vertical stripe problem for the 5000 cards is pretty wide spread. Its strange, instead of crashing with a blue screen, it crashes with the vertical stripes... I can't get prime95 blend to run without bringing up the stripes (it doesn't happen in games). Anyone else have the vertical stripes problem? Anyone know why/how to fix? I have a sapphire 5850.

 

[BillAnderson702]

I have the problem a couple times daily. I'm extremely frustrated with this sh*t. I am almost to the point of doing a RMA. I hope to god there is a driver fix to handle it. It happens to me when I play COD MW2.

Anyway, I will let you know if I run across a solution. I like the card a ton (5850) except for when it does this stuff.

Peace.

Bill Anderson

 

[bystander]

From what I've read around, it would appear that the memory on these cards do not have a temperature gauge, nor extra cooling.

After learning that, I tried underclocking my memory settings by 50MHz and have not had those vertical stripes since. I also over clock the core, which makes up for the performance loss and more.

 

[XD_dued]

But why would prime blend make in happen then? XD. Seems like no one knows for sure...

 

[bystander]

I have no idea, I've never seen that problem with Prime95.

 

[kewlguy781]

see this forum, look like the number of this problem has been increasing.

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=124747&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

 

[BillAnderson702]

Well I have noticed that since I have undone my extra settings of clock and memory on overdrive, the problem has lessened some. However, when I had it overclocked, I would run the fan at 45% which would keep the card cool where ever the temp gauge is located.

I noticed I missed my 30-day return option, so I'm keeping it and will deal with Sapphire if I get frustrated enough down the road.

Bill Anderson

 

[ricbst]

I have the same problem in a xfx 5750 card...The weird thing is i not get the error while playing, but only on idle....

Hope a driver can fix this...

 

[Mousemonkey]

The problem really only arises at extremely high framerates in non-demanding software in crossfire mode, making it fairly minor

That's what the GPU's manufacture had to say about the issue, that and it needs to be fixed.

Link

 

[ricbst]

i had a reply from the xfx support...they told me to edit a xml file to make catalyst dont lower the core clock to below 300...

 

[nforce4max]

To me another plus to waiting for lower prices is also problems like this are either worked out or avoided but that renders me to either low end or obsolete hardware.