WHAT THE IS WRONG WITH MY GFX CARD!!!!!!

[schecterplayer]

SERIOSULY IM FURIOUS RIGHT NOW!!!!! i can not for the life of me get this sapphire hd6850 to work right!!! heres what happens.

i have the card installed and everything works fine. i started from scratch installing it. removing all traces of it with driver sweeper and having windows install drivers. but the weird part is i cant use windows update to get newer drivers. so i download 12.6 from amd. BF3 crashes almost instantly. i rollback to 12.1 betterbut still no good. i used 11.1 for awhile and it worked fine. now its doing the same thing...

another thing, the game says its stopped working, i can CTL ALT DEL to desktop and all is well. untill i open any application. internet explorer for example. looks like a freaking light show in vegas. crashes instantly and i have to restart the computer to get it to work...

i have no more tricks up my sleeve and i am seriosly done with this card. nothing but troubles. what is wrong here!!!!!

 

[schecterplayer]

Turn off Virtu MVP if you just turned it on!!!

The what now?

 

[schecterplayer]

heres my psu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341051

i dont think its the power. im running a very light load. i ran stress test on cpu and gpu at the same time for about 5 hours. didnt choke i didnt have to increase voltage on the cpu either.

 

[Pinhedd]

And who makes u the Judge of that???

The fact that you came here asking for help and are forcing us to pry information out of you piece by piece.

Overclocking the CPU puts stress on the CPU and all related components including the memory controller. It's entirely possible that your 20% overclock was too aggressive and has damaged your GPUs ability to access the system memory.

I've seen a number of cases like this, AMD CPUs from Global Foundries have a tendency to go pop.

 

[schecterplayer]

The fact that you came here asking for help and are forcing us to pry information out of you piece by piece.

Overclocking the CPU puts stress on the CPU and all related components including the memory controller. It's entirely possible that your 20% overclock was too aggressive and has damaged your GPUs ability to access the system memory.

I've seen a number of cases like this, AMD CPUs from Global Foundries have a tendency to go pop.[/quook
ok im not sure i understand that? what can i do to fix that?

 

[dudewitbow]

The fact that you came here asking for help and are forcing us to pry information out of you piece by piece.

Overclocking the CPU puts stress on the CPU and all related components including the memory controller. It's entirely possible that your 20% overclock was too aggressive and has damaged your GPUs ability to access the system memory.

I've seen a number of cases like this, AMD CPUs from Global Foundries have a tendency to go pop.[/quook
ok im not sure i understand that? what can i do to fix that?

reset everything to factory conditions with a cmos reset

 

[schecterplayer]

ok i just want to ask for clarification n something. am i wrong to assume that since i have overclocked and ran video and cpu stress tests at the same time that its not an issue with what is being described?

 

[schecterplayer]

hello? i have dropped the clock to 3.45 and ran BF3 for about an hour. no problems. so is that really all it was?

 

[Pinhedd]

hello? i have dropped the clock to 3.45 and ran BF3 for about an hour. no problems. so is that really all it was?

What was that you were saying earlier about your overclock being stable

If it's working okay right now you should leave it as is. If it starts being problematic remove the OC completely.

 

[schecterplayer]

What was that you were saying earlier about your overclock being stable

If it's working okay right now you should leave it as is. If it starts being problematic remove the OC completely.

well it was stable for a while. but how does running both stress tests not make it freak out?

 

[Pinhedd]

stress tests don't necessarily test all components

 

[schecterplayer]

stress tests don't necessarily test all components

makes sense. well for now its working. thing with this stuff is it could be working perfect but ur always waiting for it to mess up lol. but thanks to all who helped.

 

[schecterplayer]

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[Sunius]

When you stress test an overclock, Run prime95 along with Furmark. That way both CPU and GPU will get tested.