About a week ago my PC started to freeze during games. The screen would either go completely black, or weird red vertical lines and dots would show up on the screen. The event viewer showed this message:
Event ID 18, WHEA-Logger
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error
Processor APIC ID: 2
A few days later, it started happening more and more often, and not just while playing games, until it wouldn't even boot to windows. I managed to boot in safe mode, uninstalled the video driver with an AMD uninstall tool, rebooted normally and the PC stopped crashing.
The problem is, it only works with the generic windows drivers. As soon as I install ANY AMD driver, even older ones that worked before, the PC glitches. I reinstalled Windows 8(x64), I even installed Windows 7(x64) on a separate partition, and the same thing happens.
I do plan to buy another video card relatively soon, but I was wondering if there's anything I can do to fix my current card.
My PC:
Video Card: SAPPHIRE HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB GDDR5
Processor: Intel core 2 quad Q8300 @2.5GHz
Motherboard: Asus P5P41T LE
Power Supply: Raidmax KY-600ATX 500W
Memory: 6GB DDR3 1333MHz
Event ID 18, WHEA-Logger
A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Bus/Interconnect Error
Processor APIC ID: 2
A few days later, it started happening more and more often, and not just while playing games, until it wouldn't even boot to windows. I managed to boot in safe mode, uninstalled the video driver with an AMD uninstall tool, rebooted normally and the PC stopped crashing.
The problem is, it only works with the generic windows drivers. As soon as I install ANY AMD driver, even older ones that worked before, the PC glitches. I reinstalled Windows 8(x64), I even installed Windows 7(x64) on a separate partition, and the same thing happens.
I do plan to buy another video card relatively soon, but I was wondering if there's anything I can do to fix my current card.
My PC:
Video Card: SAPPHIRE HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB GDDR5
Processor: Intel core 2 quad Q8300 @2.5GHz
Motherboard: Asus P5P41T LE
Power Supply: Raidmax KY-600ATX 500W
Memory: 6GB DDR3 1333MHz
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