Thank you for taking the time to read this. I apologize if I don't use the right terms I am not a professional. I have had my XFX Radeon 7970 DD edition for almost a year now and I have never had a single problem with her. However a few days ago I was in game (Final Fantasy XIV) and I noticed some texture artifacting. I didn't think much of it, maybe just a fluke. Then When I played League of legends later that night it blew up to crazy proportions with tearing and artifacting everywhere. When I went to my desktop I had arrays of pixels dancing all over and my gpu usage was at 99% with all other programs closed. Shortly after my PC crashed. I started it up and managed to attempt a driver removal since my first assumption was the latest beta drivers were perhaps the culprit and crashed while uninstalling. Every time the system starts with drivers running it is immediately 99% usage and dancing pixel array all over, sometimes the windows tear all over the place. Typically the driver will crash within 30 seconds of windows loading up and I get the notification of as much though any longer than a few minutes and the system will likely crash which I have been trying to avoid. I went so far as to fully reformat and reinstall windows and no change.
I have a backup old 8800GT so I put that in so I could remove drivers and tried swapping back in forth using multiple different sets of older drivers as far back as the 7970 was supported. I tried with drivers only, custom install, express, and no matter what if drivers are installed and running on startup the issue occurs. I have read in some places about programs hijacking gpus for bitcoin mining but using process explorer and others I have never found anything. I would think a fresh install of windows would stop that anyways? If I have no drivers installed I can use the card to go about my business finding and installing whichever I want but as soon as I restart once installing them it comes back. I even tried swapping into the other SLI port on a whim but no change.
I ran GPU-Z and logged what was happening as soon as possible when I would startup until the system would crash and this is what I have. Posted LogFile on MediaFire
There is little to no memory usage but the gpu is maxed out and gets roasty warm very fast. I have been searching high and low for some kind of solution and have yet found nothing. Whenever drivers are running it just murders the card. Any kind of assistance would be greatly appreciated and I can supply whatever additional info may be needed. Thank you again for reading.
I just thought of that it may worth noting that I was using MSI Afterburner but the only function I had it for was a custom fan profile (I don't mind it louder I just wanted it to stay cooler). I never used any other features it had. I have nothing overclocked except my ram is using a built in X.M.P. profile.
My System Specs.
Sabretooth Z77
Intel 3770K (watercooled)
Corsair Dominator RAM (2X4GB)
Corsair AX850 PSU
Seagate Barracuda 550GB HDD 7200RPM
I have a backup old 8800GT so I put that in so I could remove drivers and tried swapping back in forth using multiple different sets of older drivers as far back as the 7970 was supported. I tried with drivers only, custom install, express, and no matter what if drivers are installed and running on startup the issue occurs. I have read in some places about programs hijacking gpus for bitcoin mining but using process explorer and others I have never found anything. I would think a fresh install of windows would stop that anyways? If I have no drivers installed I can use the card to go about my business finding and installing whichever I want but as soon as I restart once installing them it comes back. I even tried swapping into the other SLI port on a whim but no change.
I ran GPU-Z and logged what was happening as soon as possible when I would startup until the system would crash and this is what I have. Posted LogFile on MediaFire
There is little to no memory usage but the gpu is maxed out and gets roasty warm very fast. I have been searching high and low for some kind of solution and have yet found nothing. Whenever drivers are running it just murders the card. Any kind of assistance would be greatly appreciated and I can supply whatever additional info may be needed. Thank you again for reading.
I just thought of that it may worth noting that I was using MSI Afterburner but the only function I had it for was a custom fan profile (I don't mind it louder I just wanted it to stay cooler). I never used any other features it had. I have nothing overclocked except my ram is using a built in X.M.P. profile.
My System Specs.
Sabretooth Z77
Intel 3770K (watercooled)
Corsair Dominator RAM (2X4GB)
Corsair AX850 PSU
Seagate Barracuda 550GB HDD 7200RPM
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