- Sep 14, 2012
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Hello Everyone,
I have an AMD 7870 (Gigabyte Ghz edition) in my rig and as of 3 hours ago there's a problem with it.
Earlier than 3 hours ago today I got a graphics crash when I tried recording something with OBS Studio for the first time (Trying to switch from OBS to Studio) saying something about a string in the driver (I might have paid closer attention if I knew I was going to end up here).
I tried to get higher quality recording/not streaming settings and played around with the encoder setting. When I tried it I got 4 minutes into my recording and it crashed. I think it was the encoder settings, The program won't run now due "Failed to initialize video" so I can't check.
I changed things back and got the recording done.
Later in the day I went on to stream (with OBS, not studio) for another 1.5 hours when the screen went nice and blue (But not the BSoD, it had wide vertical stripes) and I had to restart the computer to . . . no screen.
I could see the BIOS start, but then nothing. Computer still purred along.
Restarted and tried getting into safe mode (which under win10 doesn't have anything to do with F8 anymore I learned) where I was able to check the status of the drivers.
It hadn't auto-updated to the hotfix of 3 days ago. Drivers were from July (Crimson 16.3.2)
No viruses according to Avira
I couldn't uninstall the drivers. "Please contact AMD"
So I used DDU to get rid of them.
As soon as that was done I could access my computer on non-safe mode. I have a microsoft Basic Display adapter now.
Now I can't install drivers. Every time I do (Latest drivers, previously stable drivers and even a couple of older ones I still had in my download folder) it goes through the install cycle, and then it turns the screen black.
I am still projecting through the GPU DVI port, I haven't had to revert to on-board.
But it's 1024 * 768
And I've got 2 vertical bands where colours are . . . off. Different colour when it's a single colour and glitchy when not (http://imgur.com/a/rDPr3)
So, tl;dr
Please diagnose/help
I have an AMD 7870 (Gigabyte Ghz edition) in my rig and as of 3 hours ago there's a problem with it.
Earlier than 3 hours ago today I got a graphics crash when I tried recording something with OBS Studio for the first time (Trying to switch from OBS to Studio) saying something about a string in the driver (I might have paid closer attention if I knew I was going to end up here).
I tried to get higher quality recording/not streaming settings and played around with the encoder setting. When I tried it I got 4 minutes into my recording and it crashed. I think it was the encoder settings, The program won't run now due "Failed to initialize video" so I can't check.
I changed things back and got the recording done.
Later in the day I went on to stream (with OBS, not studio) for another 1.5 hours when the screen went nice and blue (But not the BSoD, it had wide vertical stripes) and I had to restart the computer to . . . no screen.
I could see the BIOS start, but then nothing. Computer still purred along.
Restarted and tried getting into safe mode (which under win10 doesn't have anything to do with F8 anymore I learned) where I was able to check the status of the drivers.
It hadn't auto-updated to the hotfix of 3 days ago. Drivers were from July (Crimson 16.3.2)
No viruses according to Avira
I couldn't uninstall the drivers. "Please contact AMD"
So I used DDU to get rid of them.
As soon as that was done I could access my computer on non-safe mode. I have a microsoft Basic Display adapter now.
Now I can't install drivers. Every time I do (Latest drivers, previously stable drivers and even a couple of older ones I still had in my download folder) it goes through the install cycle, and then it turns the screen black.
I am still projecting through the GPU DVI port, I haven't had to revert to on-board.
But it's 1024 * 768
And I've got 2 vertical bands where colours are . . . off. Different colour when it's a single colour and glitchy when not (http://imgur.com/a/rDPr3)
So, tl;dr
- AMD 7870 crashed/broke.
Possibly due to OBS Studio or user error of such program.
Can't install drivers anymore.
Please diagnose/help
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