Graphic Card crashing

marshallbell · Dec 9, 2013

Please help... I originally had this idea to run a dual monitor system on my Linux Ubuntu OS. First, I went out and purchased the XFX R5 230 Graphics Card so I would have a second VGA port. Second, bought all the cables I needed. Third, I put in the disk, and found out that I couldn't install the drivers on ubuntu.. Sooooo.. I deleted my linux OS

and reinstalled Windows 7... hooked everything back up, put in the disk and SUCCESSFULLY installed the drivers for the XFX R5 230 Graphics Card.. However, now the graphics card keeps crashing my system?!?! it blinks different colors than goes to a blue screen where the system does a dump then restarts.. It continues to do this after every restart as well. Any suggestions???

johnnyb105 · Dec 9, 2013

Is your power supply up to it to run dual cards I know the card is a mire 27 watts and its compared to a 2600 card....

http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=1887&gid2=1038&compare=radeon-r5-230-vs-radeon-hd-2600-xt-diamond-edition

Also does the card have a passive heatsink could be getting too hot 60 c at idle is a tad warm from what I have seen on the net with that card.

Klendagon · Dec 9, 2013

I agree with Johnny, 60c idle sounds too high. I'd almost expect that to overheat and crash under load. What sort of cooler is on that thing?

johnnyb105 · Dec 9, 2013

Its just a passive heatsink block no fans whatsoever!

Klendagon · Dec 9, 2013

If the card wasn't crashing your system in a previously installed OS, then it's unlikely a hardware problem and probably a driver issue.

I make a habit of never installing drivers from the bundled CD. Always download the latest drivers from the official website. You mention Windows 7, how old is the XFX R5 230?

marshallbell · Dec 9, 2013

It is brand new, just purchased it yesterday and installed it last night. also im not running two graphics cards.. just one graphic card for two monitors.

KRKATANAKID · Oct 26, 2014

I bought this card also.

My Specs:
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
3.08GHz Overclocked Core 2 Extreme
3GB RAM (4 installed)
R5 230 Graphics Card
2 7200RPM 1TB Mirrored Drives
385W PSU
Asus P5LD2

When I first bought this card, I ran into a lot of troubles. What I did was stop using VGA, and found an HDMI to DVI adapter and ran both monitors with DVI, VGA does not seem to work on this card very well. Then use either MSI Afterburner, or SAPPHIRE TRIXX to overclock the card to match the bus speed of your PCI slot. Then, since that is probably a ridiculous overclock (mine was to 800MHz), find a way to attach a fan. I run 38C at idle and 45C maxed out on GPU. Even after you do this ghetto fix, it will act up every couple months. I had mine working perfectly for like 4 months, and it decided to start crashing again 2 days ago. Fun wow.

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