Hey all,
Just upgraded from x850xt pe to the HD3870 and love it. One problem my computer crashes constantly. Here are my specs:
AMD Opteron 165 at 2.8 GHz (310x9)
ASUS A8R-MVP Mobo
Mushkin DDR400 at 279MHz 3-3-3-5
APEVIA ATX12V 500W Power Supply
The above config was prime stable for 72+ hours and memtest stable for 72+ hours. I had an occasional (once per week) crash while playing The Witcher and Company of Heroes, mostly with COH. These were also the only games that used all vid ram of my old x850xt, so I assumed that was the cause.
When I got back home after Christmas, I installed the Visiontek HD3870 after uninstalling ati software and using drivercleaner. Installed latest driver (7.12) and all other needed software. Then I installed rivatuner and atitool to try to overclock. AtiTool did not load so I then uninstalled it and tried att. I had a crash so I said I'll over clock later, I just want to play now. Then I had it crash again. I unistalled att in case that was the problem. Still crashes. I couldn’t play any game for more than 20 minutes without a crash. Closed out Rivatuner, still crashes. I was even having some crashes while at desktop.
I was always getting a BSOD 07f error.
After reinstalling drivers, I noticed sporadic (1crash/24hours) crashing. I then dropped ram timings at the suggestion of a friend and crashes dropped to 1 crash/48 hours. I figured I would continue to troubleshoot but for now it was ok.
Then last week, my computer began crashing constantly again. I dropped my overclock completely but that did not help. At the beginning of last week, my system crashed as follows in a 48 hour period:
30 crashes in the past week
27 while at desktop, mostly while just idling
2 while watching TV or movies
1 while gaming
Yesterday, I had 6 crashes, 3 while playing TF2 and 3 at desktop. Today I have had 6 crashes, 1 while at desktop while I was away and 5 while attempting to type this message. Obvouisly, this is very annoying and makes my computer unusable.
An interesting thing I have noticed is ~50% of BSODs have a ~80x80pixel pink square on them at a random location.
In addition, about 30% of the time when the computer restarts from the BSOD, it loads all startup programs and then freezes with the mouse unable to move but no BSOD.
So here is what the event log says:
SaveDump:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was:
0x0000007f (0x0000000d, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP.
Interstingly, everytime before it crashes, I get 2 eventlogs 1 sec before the crash. They are also below:
Error 6005
The Event log service was started.
Error 6009
Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 5.01. 2600 Service Pack 2 Multiprocessor Free.
I then tried to remove ram errors from the differential. I tried 1 stick in slot 1, then the other in slot 1, then that stick in 3, 2, and 4. All variations produced crashes within 30 minutes. Remember this RAM wa previously stable.
What should I do now?
Would you bother removing vid card or would you just reinstall windows?
I ask, because it is a pain to put the vid card in because the cable for my sata driver has to go over the video card which means removing the card requires removing the SATA cable from my hard drive and then stuggling to fit my hands into a position where i can get the cable back in.
I think I may try a dual boot as a test. Thoughts?
Anything else it could be? Seems it is either Vidcard or software at this point, right?
John
Just upgraded from x850xt pe to the HD3870 and love it. One problem my computer crashes constantly. Here are my specs:
AMD Opteron 165 at 2.8 GHz (310x9)
ASUS A8R-MVP Mobo
Mushkin DDR400 at 279MHz 3-3-3-5
APEVIA ATX12V 500W Power Supply
The above config was prime stable for 72+ hours and memtest stable for 72+ hours. I had an occasional (once per week) crash while playing The Witcher and Company of Heroes, mostly with COH. These were also the only games that used all vid ram of my old x850xt, so I assumed that was the cause.
When I got back home after Christmas, I installed the Visiontek HD3870 after uninstalling ati software and using drivercleaner. Installed latest driver (7.12) and all other needed software. Then I installed rivatuner and atitool to try to overclock. AtiTool did not load so I then uninstalled it and tried att. I had a crash so I said I'll over clock later, I just want to play now. Then I had it crash again. I unistalled att in case that was the problem. Still crashes. I couldn’t play any game for more than 20 minutes without a crash. Closed out Rivatuner, still crashes. I was even having some crashes while at desktop.
I was always getting a BSOD 07f error.
After reinstalling drivers, I noticed sporadic (1crash/24hours) crashing. I then dropped ram timings at the suggestion of a friend and crashes dropped to 1 crash/48 hours. I figured I would continue to troubleshoot but for now it was ok.
Then last week, my computer began crashing constantly again. I dropped my overclock completely but that did not help. At the beginning of last week, my system crashed as follows in a 48 hour period:
30 crashes in the past week
27 while at desktop, mostly while just idling
2 while watching TV or movies
1 while gaming
Yesterday, I had 6 crashes, 3 while playing TF2 and 3 at desktop. Today I have had 6 crashes, 1 while at desktop while I was away and 5 while attempting to type this message. Obvouisly, this is very annoying and makes my computer unusable.
An interesting thing I have noticed is ~50% of BSODs have a ~80x80pixel pink square on them at a random location.
In addition, about 30% of the time when the computer restarts from the BSOD, it loads all startup programs and then freezes with the mouse unable to move but no BSOD.
So here is what the event log says:
SaveDump:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was:
0x0000007f (0x0000000d, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP.
Interstingly, everytime before it crashes, I get 2 eventlogs 1 sec before the crash. They are also below:
Error 6005
The Event log service was started.
Error 6009
Microsoft (R) Windows (R) 5.01. 2600 Service Pack 2 Multiprocessor Free.
I then tried to remove ram errors from the differential. I tried 1 stick in slot 1, then the other in slot 1, then that stick in 3, 2, and 4. All variations produced crashes within 30 minutes. Remember this RAM wa previously stable.
What should I do now?
Would you bother removing vid card or would you just reinstall windows?
I ask, because it is a pain to put the vid card in because the cable for my sata driver has to go over the video card which means removing the card requires removing the SATA cable from my hard drive and then stuggling to fit my hands into a position where i can get the cable back in.
I think I may try a dual boot as a test. Thoughts?
Anything else it could be? Seems it is either Vidcard or software at this point, right?
John