Current Specs:
Win7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Asrock 990FX Extreme4
MSI R9 280X
AMD FX-8350
8GB Corsair RAM
Corsair TX750M
Long story short: I replaced my old video card with a new Gigabyte HD7970, and it was giving me startup problems. It was losing performance rapidly, and by the third night it performed worse than my old 560Ti. I replaced it with my current R9 280X, which worked great the first night too, but the same problem occured. I've taken many steps to figure things out, so here are the clues I've gathered:
- It's not compatibility. This guy has my same setup and plays BF4 on Ultra here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho0Pw70x28M
- None of the parts have shown up to be bad on multiple diagnostics. MBoard tests, psu tests, memory tests, gpu tests, and everything else from multiple different diagnostic programs
- My Dr.Debug says the startup issue is almost always code 36 (CPU post-memory initialization. System Management Mode (SMM) initialization), but this morning it gave me a 36 and a 10 for the first time (PEI Core is started)
- The computer is fully grounded
- Heat is not an issue, I watched my system closely on the night of the new R9. Nothing in my system ever went past 60C.
- My video drivers are updated, 13.11 Beta
- I removed all of my old nvidia drivers
- All problems go away if I put my old 560Ti back in
Everything should be fine, but it isn't. If anyone has any idea what's going on here, please let me know.
Win7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Asrock 990FX Extreme4
MSI R9 280X
AMD FX-8350
8GB Corsair RAM
Corsair TX750M
Long story short: I replaced my old video card with a new Gigabyte HD7970, and it was giving me startup problems. It was losing performance rapidly, and by the third night it performed worse than my old 560Ti. I replaced it with my current R9 280X, which worked great the first night too, but the same problem occured. I've taken many steps to figure things out, so here are the clues I've gathered:
- It's not compatibility. This guy has my same setup and plays BF4 on Ultra here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho0Pw70x28M
- None of the parts have shown up to be bad on multiple diagnostics. MBoard tests, psu tests, memory tests, gpu tests, and everything else from multiple different diagnostic programs
- My Dr.Debug says the startup issue is almost always code 36 (CPU post-memory initialization. System Management Mode (SMM) initialization), but this morning it gave me a 36 and a 10 for the first time (PEI Core is started)
- The computer is fully grounded
- Heat is not an issue, I watched my system closely on the night of the new R9. Nothing in my system ever went past 60C.
- My video drivers are updated, 13.11 Beta
- I removed all of my old nvidia drivers
- All problems go away if I put my old 560Ti back in
Everything should be fine, but it isn't. If anyone has any idea what's going on here, please let me know.