Radeon Driver CRASHING

KennyGsmooth16

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Okay, stick with me, this is going to take some explaining. So I recently built a new PC, but reused a few parts from my previous rig. One of those parts being my graphics card. The main reason for this being that the new GPUs from Nvidia and AMD will be released soon, so I plan to wait for them. So my old Sapphire Radeon 7850 2gb card was put into my new build for the time being, Now, here are my build specs in case anyone needs to know:

AMD FX-6300
MSI Krait 970A Motherboard
Sapphire Radeon 7850 2GB OC Edition
Windows 10
OCZ ModXstream-Pro 700W PSU
NZXT Kraken X61 Liquid cooling
Kingston 120gb SSD & WD Blue 1tb Drive

Now, on to my problem...... The graphics driver keeps crashing and then recovering. Over and over again this problem occurs. I could simply be opening Google Chrome and this happens. Now, this started right after I installed Windows 10 on the new rig. However, I originally installed Windows 8.1, because I had a copy laying around with an unused product code. Right after I installed Windows 8.1, I updated to Windows 10. That's when the crashes started happening.

I've tried many things to fix the issues, looking through endless amount of forums and nothing has worked, so I came here. I've tried rolling back the driver for the card, I've tried setting the TdrDelay to 8 seconds, I've even reinstalled Windows 8.1 back on the machine (Which its currently running now), but nothing has worked. The only thing that has worked is to delete all AMD drivers and use the basic Windows driver that's built in......Which means no gaming or pretty much anything for that matter. Does anyone have any ideas on solving this issue? Is my GPU just fried? I could really use some help because it's basically bricking my brand new machine right now. Thanks!
 
Hello well there is a bunch of variable here, but first the things, why you graphics cards will be burn, is there a reason to thing about as too much overclocking the only you did was swap from your old machine to the new one. Maybe is not the graphics cards maybe can be the slot of pci express, try the first one swap the pci express where is installed the video card if still happen the problem and load the settings of your bios at default.
Then look for anyone can lend you a video card a cheap one, and see if this happen too, maybe a mobo that have problems is just for discard.
Check the bios of your mobo how old is and see if there is a fix for the bios naming something about video card problem so you can considering update your bios, if your bios is update it and is not named nothing about a video card problem honestly don't update it.
Another suggestion is try your video card in another pc, some friend, family with amd drivers and windows 10, I think it' s the best, but tell them first was is the problem that you had so he/she can understand why are u doing this. I bet this will be the easy way to know if your video card is damage or not. If it runs like a champ maybe is something about your new hardware.


 


Okay, so I tried what you suggested. Had a friend bring over his Sapphire Radeon 7870 2GB Card. We plugged it in, it worked for while, but resulted in the same issue. I'm still getting those driver crashes and the occasional blue screen. However, the last blue screen gave me a different error. I believe it was "Graphics driver stuck in thread". I also tried moving the card into the PCI-e slot and it didn't post beep. Instead it gave me a very long first beep and two short beeps after that. Which supposedly means a graphics card error. Any ideas??? Bad mobo or just something on the software side?