- Aug 2, 2010
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Hello all,
I am in desperate need of help, or i won't be sleeping again any time soon, and already lost so much i am sick literally.
First, My build....
Asus p6X58D Premium
Intel i7 X980 Gulftown 3.35GHz @ Stock (runs slightly faster than rated no turbo engaged)
24 GB ram Patriot Viper II Extreme series (if I am remembering right LOL!)
XFX HD 5870 W eyefinity 2 GB gddr5
Samsung 24" 1920X1200 X 3
1TB WD Black 7200 RPM 6 Gbs X 2
1TB WD Black 7200 rpm 3Gbs X 3
1000 Watt Bronze 80 Rosewill PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit RTM/oem
After running this build for about a year, with little issue beyond those generated by a root kit infection of the boot sector of my system drive, from which i have recovered successfully, more or less, as it required a format and re installation of the OS, and all the programs.
After this harrowing ordeal, I have been running without issue except for mt mouse pointer freezing/skipping, which was resolved in another thread here.
After running prime95 torture test for 7 hours and another GPU stress test for five, all was well and nothing rose above 107°F. then a few nights later I noticed SpeedFan was indicating my GPU and two of the 6 cores rising in to the 120°f ranges, still within reason however since the machine was all but idle (i was working on my other build at the time) and was continuing to rise upwards of 128°f and although i know this is still within acceptable ranges, not DOING anything at the time, warranted further investigation, so i shut it down, unplugged it, and partially disassembled the build enough to give it all a good vacuuming, and as suspected, between the GPU and the secondary Antec GPU fan, there was a clump of dust acting like an insulator. and put everything back after it was all clean, ensuring everything ws making proper contact where it should, including the 6 and 6+6 PCIe plugs into the gpu card.
At the same time my quad core machine advised me of a new ATI driver for my HD5860 in it, and proceeded to allow the update, with no errors.
However when i got the now clean machine booted after some posting issues of unknown cause, i swapped out the video card with an old radeon 4600 series to find it did in fact post and boot, returning the HD5870 for another try again, it posted again and proceeded to boot normally, or so it seemed, because after boot up i got a notification "there is no ATI driver installed or the existing one is corrupt or not working properly I proceeded to XFX and then AMD site itself since every attempt from both sites resulted in either CCC and everything loaded fine but the driver failed, or the install package failed and the driver could not be loaded.
BTW there often were times over the past two years that new updated driver installs would error, so i just stayed with the current one and let it go until it had advanced to the next revision knowing there can be issues with these drivers and windows 7, so i tried going back to the last known working driver for this card, that being just prior to turning the 10.xxx revisions, and initially it seemed to work but there were warnings, i am so dizzy at the moment i cannot recall what it was, so i proceeded to advance through each of the revisions installing the entire suite after each failure, or if everything installed okay except the driver, I would then try getting and installing only the driver, and no matter which stage of this i was at, one of those issues resulted, i have been at this now for 20 solid hours barely eating and having no more than 4 hours of sleep (more so from being miserable from my head cold) and am at the end of my rope and was all but in tears this morning when i HAD to go lie down.
I don't know what else to do... i really do not wish to have to reinstall Windows again, as i just DID that a month ago and finally finished installing around 77 programs and although the installations aren't THAT great a deal all together, configuring those programs for how they are to be used is a monumental task that i haven't even finished from the last recovery (the root kit virus... yes it is clean now ran Kaperski's TDSS killer)
one other thing.... when running SpeedFan again i noticed it no longer reports a GPU and states the 'power' fan is 0 RPMs which occurred JUST before i shut it down for those temps. It STILL say power fan is 0 RPM and shows battery ???? all 12 cores are running between 77 and 87 degrees, all HDD'S high 70's aside from power fan, all physical fans can be visually confirmed as running/spinning, and cpu is slightly higher 3354MHz curiously no memory references at all.... not sure if they were even there previously, but usually such a utility would have such representation. I am going to go download another type of utility at CPUID site!!! I'll report those results
What should i check, what else can i try, where do i go for the best versions of these drivers, at one point it claimed i have no ATI drivers installed, then when switching to another revision it will report there are no AMD graphics driver installed? and the ONE instance everything, including driver had installed without error or warning... Windows said it was an unsigned driver and requires ONLY digitally signed drivers... i realize i could have rebooted from the alternate boot menu and choose ignore driver signing errors but that isn't a fix in my book.
I am a grown man and do not want to cry tonight out of sheer frustration, like i almost did this morning until i finally ATE something to help me reduce the stress levels.
Thanks, you guys more often than not always help resolve my computer problems, any input would be greatly appreciated.
TSG!
I am in desperate need of help, or i won't be sleeping again any time soon, and already lost so much i am sick literally.
First, My build....
Asus p6X58D Premium
Intel i7 X980 Gulftown 3.35GHz @ Stock (runs slightly faster than rated no turbo engaged)
24 GB ram Patriot Viper II Extreme series (if I am remembering right LOL!)
XFX HD 5870 W eyefinity 2 GB gddr5
Samsung 24" 1920X1200 X 3
1TB WD Black 7200 RPM 6 Gbs X 2
1TB WD Black 7200 rpm 3Gbs X 3
1000 Watt Bronze 80 Rosewill PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit RTM/oem
After running this build for about a year, with little issue beyond those generated by a root kit infection of the boot sector of my system drive, from which i have recovered successfully, more or less, as it required a format and re installation of the OS, and all the programs.
After this harrowing ordeal, I have been running without issue except for mt mouse pointer freezing/skipping, which was resolved in another thread here.
After running prime95 torture test for 7 hours and another GPU stress test for five, all was well and nothing rose above 107°F. then a few nights later I noticed SpeedFan was indicating my GPU and two of the 6 cores rising in to the 120°f ranges, still within reason however since the machine was all but idle (i was working on my other build at the time) and was continuing to rise upwards of 128°f and although i know this is still within acceptable ranges, not DOING anything at the time, warranted further investigation, so i shut it down, unplugged it, and partially disassembled the build enough to give it all a good vacuuming, and as suspected, between the GPU and the secondary Antec GPU fan, there was a clump of dust acting like an insulator. and put everything back after it was all clean, ensuring everything ws making proper contact where it should, including the 6 and 6+6 PCIe plugs into the gpu card.
At the same time my quad core machine advised me of a new ATI driver for my HD5860 in it, and proceeded to allow the update, with no errors.
However when i got the now clean machine booted after some posting issues of unknown cause, i swapped out the video card with an old radeon 4600 series to find it did in fact post and boot, returning the HD5870 for another try again, it posted again and proceeded to boot normally, or so it seemed, because after boot up i got a notification "there is no ATI driver installed or the existing one is corrupt or not working properly I proceeded to XFX and then AMD site itself since every attempt from both sites resulted in either CCC and everything loaded fine but the driver failed, or the install package failed and the driver could not be loaded.
BTW there often were times over the past two years that new updated driver installs would error, so i just stayed with the current one and let it go until it had advanced to the next revision knowing there can be issues with these drivers and windows 7, so i tried going back to the last known working driver for this card, that being just prior to turning the 10.xxx revisions, and initially it seemed to work but there were warnings, i am so dizzy at the moment i cannot recall what it was, so i proceeded to advance through each of the revisions installing the entire suite after each failure, or if everything installed okay except the driver, I would then try getting and installing only the driver, and no matter which stage of this i was at, one of those issues resulted, i have been at this now for 20 solid hours barely eating and having no more than 4 hours of sleep (more so from being miserable from my head cold) and am at the end of my rope and was all but in tears this morning when i HAD to go lie down.
I don't know what else to do... i really do not wish to have to reinstall Windows again, as i just DID that a month ago and finally finished installing around 77 programs and although the installations aren't THAT great a deal all together, configuring those programs for how they are to be used is a monumental task that i haven't even finished from the last recovery (the root kit virus... yes it is clean now ran Kaperski's TDSS killer)
one other thing.... when running SpeedFan again i noticed it no longer reports a GPU and states the 'power' fan is 0 RPMs which occurred JUST before i shut it down for those temps. It STILL say power fan is 0 RPM and shows battery ???? all 12 cores are running between 77 and 87 degrees, all HDD'S high 70's aside from power fan, all physical fans can be visually confirmed as running/spinning, and cpu is slightly higher 3354MHz curiously no memory references at all.... not sure if they were even there previously, but usually such a utility would have such representation. I am going to go download another type of utility at CPUID site!!! I'll report those results
What should i check, what else can i try, where do i go for the best versions of these drivers, at one point it claimed i have no ATI drivers installed, then when switching to another revision it will report there are no AMD graphics driver installed? and the ONE instance everything, including driver had installed without error or warning... Windows said it was an unsigned driver and requires ONLY digitally signed drivers... i realize i could have rebooted from the alternate boot menu and choose ignore driver signing errors but that isn't a fix in my book.
I am a grown man and do not want to cry tonight out of sheer frustration, like i almost did this morning until i finally ATE something to help me reduce the stress levels.
Thanks, you guys more often than not always help resolve my computer problems, any input would be greatly appreciated.
TSG!
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