Radeon 5xxx Owners Report Grey Screens/Hangups

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Hmm, I was chomping at the bit to get my tax refund so i could buy a 5970, but maybe now I will wait until this issue has been resolved. There is nothing more disappointing than spending that kind of money on a part that just gives you heartburn.
 
Huh, looks like its a good thing i decided to wait to upgrade my graphics card. Hopefully there's a fix for this soon though, its frustrating having a new graphics card that doesnt work
 
they have to pay these guy s a huge money for the testing and research they have done... come one AMD share some money you got from Intel
 
Not new news, but should have been addressed since October when these cards were released instead of stating that this problem only being acknowledged in January. AMD needs to step up their game to resolve these issues.

Luckily, I still have a Radeon HD 4000 series but my friends are dogging me for answers since they aren't computer literate and I am but I can't help them since this is not solvable atm.
 
boy if this was an nvidia card problem this thing would be lit up with ati guys bashing them!!!!!! this nvidia fan boy will just keep his mouth shut and give a devilish smurk :|
 
Look like ATi is in trouble like nvidia with Physic.

Let's hope they will fix that soon!

Windows 7 x64 / ATi Sapphire HD 4770 and not trouble at all for now.
 
i bet its a little bit of all three problems getting clumped toghether,

thier is always a chance any card from anywhere could be faulty, so that explains it i mean, sometimes things get bounced around to much off the assembly test line during shipping, not all silicon is created equal and some parcel packers have bad days and im sure take it out on the parcels.

just like some cards handle much higher clocks at lower voltages than others some card due to design work better at extremely low clocks when starved for power,

not all components play well toghether, thats just the nature of the beast,

my 4870, and 5670 have worked flawlessy on windows 7 ultimate 64 bit edition thus far.

 
[citation][nom]Atranox[/nom]I recieved my Sapphire 5850 yesterday. Loaded up Company of Heroes - 30 seconds later, gray screen.Awesome.[/citation]

Weird. I have 2x Sapphire 5850s running stock in my box on a MSI 790FX-GD70 mobo and Mushkin DDR3 and an AMD Phenom II x4 B50 @ 3.675GHz.

I've run everything from web games to Civilization III to Darkfall on it.

Not had a video crash one, and I am runnin the 9.12 drivers under Win XP Pro x64. Not done a lot under Windows 7 x64 Pro, but what I have been in there it's never crashed either in Crossfire mode or regular.

Hope you get yours fixed
 
This article is FUD. 95% of 5870 buyers rate this card as good/excellent. That leaves only 5% of some 2+ million cards buyers with negative experience. Many of whom are experiencing compatible issues because of (1) outdated hardware, (2) windows XP, or (3)having low technical knowledge and are unable to perform simple adjustments in CCC, account for a large portion of the issues posted on the forums . Now having gotten that out of the way…. Drivers for the 5XXX series can and are being improved. So atm it’s still the best dam graphic card in the world!
 
As a regular visitor in the amd forums there are dozens of problems posted every day, usually made by average people who just assumes a certain part of their computer for causing this problem without a thorough check, which sometimes proves to be incorrect.

Consequently, I think that's something like a chicken / egg dilemma, since when people who have problems with their computer (underpowered psu, bad memory etc.) visit some forums and see huge stickies with 5xxx problems, some of them conclude that the gpu is at fault and add something of their own to the thread.

We should put these problems in prespective - The fact that 2 million cards were sold in a relatively short time and that the **official** amd forum has only 30-40 people who are crying for help and is not flooded with hordes of people is a good sign.

As a side note, although I do own an amd cpu + gpu, I'm not a fanboy and do not appreciate anyone who's commited to any company (i.e. fanboyism).
 
Have a Sapphire 4890 VaporX for a year now without any issues.Was looking forward to upgrading to a 58xx card soon, but now...

Maybe will just wait for Fermi.

 
Where's the numbers? Where's the recall? Wouldn't the e-tailers pull the cards off the shelf if they were going to lose money wih mass refunds and/or exchanges? I don't think it's as bad as the article seems to be deliberately vague.
 
Thanks Jane, for this compendium. Along with the 2D issue that THG described in a previous article, this just adds to the reasons to wait a while before upgrading. I just hope my HD4850 won't choke too badly if I go to 1920x1080, although my titles aren't too demanding.
 
There is nothing wrong with the cards. Microsoft updated all Windows systems several days ago. I have running XP 32-bit, Vista Home Premium 32-bit and Win 7 Pro - 64 bit. They all have been updated immediately after Google announce the hacker attacks through IE. My Radeon 5850 start crashing immediately after the update when in 3D game play. Before the update the card was rock solid. So, waiting for new update from Microsoft to fix the mess that they did with the previous one. This happens already several times for the last three years. MS seems never does the update at first correctly.
 
[citation][nom]HundredIslandsBoy[/nom]Where's the numbers? Where's the recall? Wouldn't the e-tailers pull the cards off the shelf if they were going to lose money wih mass refunds and/or exchanges? I don't think it's as bad as the article seems to be deliberately vague.[/citation]

I'm not deliberately being vague. We don't know what the problem is and AMD won't tell us. You expect AMD to recall cards and retailers to pull cards of the shelves when ATI hasn't even publicly identified the problem?
 
[citation][nom]doron[/nom]The fact that 2 million cards were sold in a relatively short time and that the **official** amd forum has only 30-40 people who are crying for help and is not flooded with hordes of people is a good sign.As a side note, although I do own an amd cpu + gpu, I'm not a fanboy and do not appreciate anyone who's commited to any company (i.e. fanboyism).[/citation]

It's not "only" 30-40 people, nor is it just the amd forum. Like I said in the article there are people on different forums all over the web.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?p=1336110454

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=241042

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=124747&enterthread=y

And on our own:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/275962-15-5870-dilemma

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/279374-15-5870-owners

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/275647-15-grey-screen-thin-verticle-lines-5870

 
I have a 5770 and had some issues with games that I pushed up the quality settings on. I backed them down a little at a time and my issues went away though they are still set well above the "recomended" settings. The combination varied by game. I found most games set the "recomended" setting too low.
 
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