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July 7, 2013 8:57:02 AM

Hey guys, I built a new rig, and I get this problem when I start playing games or doing things that would be more demanding of my hardware. It's inconsistent, sometimes I can go for quite a while without a hitch, sometimes it happens so much I just have to quit for the night. I've been pouring over forums and different fixes, and nothing has solved my problem. Figured it was time to finally post about it. The two main things are the:

"AMD Driver has stopped responding and has recovered successfully"
that's the common one, and occassionally, if it really freaks out, I'll get a BSOD with the stop error: 0xA0000001.

My Rig:
AMD FX-6300 six-core
Radeon HD 7770 (by Sapphire)
8GB 2x4 DDR3
Corsair CX600 PSU
MSI 970A-G43 Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM HDD

Things I have tried:

Uninstalling and reinstalling fresh AMD Vision driver suite, version is 13.4
Extending TRD in registry
Reinstalling games
Upgrading PSU (used to have a 500 watt without 80+cert, sadly, hasn't fixed)
Windows updates

Beyond all this, I can't find anything that doesn't say "try reinstalling drivers and windows updates" Is there anything else I can do?

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July 7, 2013 9:08:30 AM

That's an overclocking problem. Normally when you card has too high OC and too little voltages it may crash. It happens normally when you are getting too high and try to game or benchmark and the driver just crash and then recovers to do not crash the whole system.

If you are not changing your clocks you should at RMA your cart at shappire, most cards tend to be overclocked a little, abot 40 to 50mghz for marketing strategies. Most of the times is null the boost of performance between most vendors brands, some can get 35 others may get up to 80mghz.

If you card is OC by the box, it should work as intended, if it has that problem RMA it because it may be faulty as it really should work with that mild OC. If not, decrease it at reference clocks. HD7770 has 1Ghz Core clock as reference, so you should look at that.
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July 7, 2013 9:40:47 AM

horaciopz said:
That's an overclocking problem. Normally when you card has too high OC and too little voltages it may crash. It happens normally when you are getting too high and try to game or benchmark and the driver just crash and then recovers to do not crash the whole system.

If you are not changing your clocks you should at RMA your cart at shappire, most cards tend to be overclocked a little, abot 40 to 50mghz for marketing strategies. Most of the times is null the boost of performance between most vendors brands, some can get 35 others may get up to 80mghz.

If you card is OC by the box, it should work as intended, if it has that problem RMA it because it may be faulty as it really should work with that mild OC. If not, decrease it at reference clocks. HD7770 has 1Ghz Core clock as reference, so you should look at that.


Wow, thanks this is the first time I've heard this solution, starting to lose hope. Just for the sake of testing, how do I reduce its clock? I don't OC any of my stuff, so I'm assuming it's as it comes in the box as you stated. Where do I adjust that kind of thing?
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July 7, 2013 9:49:23 AM

Download MSI afterburner. That is the easiest overclocking tool so far. Just open the software and there will be a couple of slides, there should be Core voltage, Power Limit, Core clock, Memory clock and fan speed. Just move the Core clock slide to the 1000mhz mark. Try to run games, if that doesnt solves, increase (if its unlocked) your core voltage bar... A little bit, a few mV to improve stability. If it not unlocked, increase the Power Limit to 10. You really will want to check temperatures before doing all of that stuff, the program will tell you everything at the left window.
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July 7, 2013 9:16:40 PM

horaciopz said:
Download MSI afterburner. That is the easiest overclocking tool so far. Just open the software and there will be a couple of slides, there should be Core voltage, Power Limit, Core clock, Memory clock and fan speed. Just move the Core clock slide to the 1000mhz mark. Try to run games, if that doesnt solves, increase (if its unlocked) your core voltage bar... A little bit, a few mV to improve stability. If it not unlocked, increase the Power Limit to 10. You really will want to check temperatures before doing all of that stuff, the program will tell you everything at the left window.


Hey I actually just did some testing. I have a second desktop also running an AMD card that is all smooth. I swapped them out and the issue still persists on this machine, with a different card, with no problems on the other machine using the thought-to-be problem card. Not sure where to go from here.
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July 7, 2013 9:23:36 PM

I followed this thread in the hopes that a different solution was found, but it wasn't. I used to have an ASRock 970A-G54 board and had this same problem. Video drivers stopped working just about every time I tried to game. Only difference was the time frame in which I was able to game. Sometimes I could go all night, but they'd crash upon moving the mouse to exit the screensaver when I woke up. Sometimes they would crash instantly. I replaced the motherboard and the problem went away. I hate to jump to conclusions without having evidence of a faulty board, but that's what worked for me, and that's what I suspect will work for you.
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July 8, 2013 8:05:20 AM

JobCreator said:
I followed this thread in the hopes that a different solution was found, but it wasn't. I used to have an ASRock 970A-G54 board and had this same problem. Video drivers stopped working just about every time I tried to game. Only difference was the time frame in which I was able to game. Sometimes I could go all night, but they'd crash upon moving the mouse to exit the screensaver when I woke up. Sometimes they would crash instantly. I replaced the motherboard and the problem went away. I hate to jump to conclusions without having evidence of a faulty board, but that's what worked for me, and that's what I suspect will work for you.


I was afraid of this. I got it from Newegg in a combo, so my only choice is replacement RMA, but it's been more than 30 days, so I think I'm out of luck. Just have a crappy board and buy a new one. I'm reloading Windows tonight, see if that changes anything, hopefully.
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