Hello everyone,
I've tried just about everything I can think of to fix this problem and now I have to reach out. I have a Gigabyte HD 7950 graphics card and since I have started using it, I've had constant display driver crashes. I've tried upgrading my PSU, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, have used Driver Sweeper, and have done a format of the computer twice. Nothing is working. It should be noted that when I switch out to an older card to prevent the crashes, the crashes don't happen but I have a LOT of artifacts. The HD 7950 has been tried in several other machines and does not crash on those machines. It should be noted that while playing certain games (League of Legends, for example) the card crashes and then recovers and I can continue playing. While playing other games, however, the card crashes and the entire system is locked up, and a lovely screeching noises comes blaring out of the headset. The only way to recover from this crash is to do a hard reset.
The temperature of the GPU does not go over 55.
I do not have the card overclocked, and had chosen to go without the Catalyst software for right now to see if that helped with the crashes, but it didn't.
I'm out of ideas and am super upset that this card can't run to its potential.
edit: Realized I forgot to mention, the crashes happen most of the time while gaming (World of Warcraft, League of Legends...) but have NOT occurred while playing Mass Effect 3. I have, however, had the computer lock up and make this awful screeching noise through the headphones while on Skype and just sitting on the internet.
I've tried just about everything I can think of to fix this problem and now I have to reach out. I have a Gigabyte HD 7950 graphics card and since I have started using it, I've had constant display driver crashes. I've tried upgrading my PSU, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, have used Driver Sweeper, and have done a format of the computer twice. Nothing is working. It should be noted that when I switch out to an older card to prevent the crashes, the crashes don't happen but I have a LOT of artifacts. The HD 7950 has been tried in several other machines and does not crash on those machines. It should be noted that while playing certain games (League of Legends, for example) the card crashes and then recovers and I can continue playing. While playing other games, however, the card crashes and the entire system is locked up, and a lovely screeching noises comes blaring out of the headset. The only way to recover from this crash is to do a hard reset.
The temperature of the GPU does not go over 55.
I do not have the card overclocked, and had chosen to go without the Catalyst software for right now to see if that helped with the crashes, but it didn't.
I'm out of ideas and am super upset that this card can't run to its potential.
edit: Realized I forgot to mention, the crashes happen most of the time while gaming (World of Warcraft, League of Legends...) but have NOT occurred while playing Mass Effect 3. I have, however, had the computer lock up and make this awful screeching noise through the headphones while on Skype and just sitting on the internet.
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