ATi 9.2/3 4870 1GB stability

LN2009

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Lo peeps,

Just built a new system:

Sapphire PE-AM2RS740G Mobo
AMD 7750 (2.7)
Gainward Golden Sample 4870 1GB
Kingston CL8500 (5-5-5-15) (4GB)
Antec HE Neopower 550W PSU
Samsung Spinpoint F1 (640GB)
Vista Ultimate 64 (SP1)

Problems I am having is due mainly to stability, playing WoW tends to cause the system to freeze, Vista sometimes recovers by restarting.

Vista says the ATi display driver is the problem, causing a BSOD.

I tried 9.3 this resulted in a crash, usually within 10-15 minutes. With the 9.2's I got around an hour out of it before the crash.

Is there a problem I am missing or are these drivers known to cause problems? I've downloaded the 8.12 and 9.1 drivers to try. It is a royal pain in the ass because of the board using an Ati/AMD chipset. 9.3 were the only driver package to include the HDMI sound driver.

Other problem I am having is with USB ports, I'm not getting enough power to run the WD passport HDD unless I unplug something, like the USB Wifi dongle.

I do have this arriving possibly tomorrow, ASROCK A790GXH/128M, because the sapphire board although it's a 740G isn't a 7-Series chipset, so no AMD OD, board also doesn't have CPU voltage modifier, despite having a load of other OC functions.

Hope you can help.


 
Test the memory with memtest86+.
Check the temperatures while gaming.
Wait until you have the new motherboard in place before changing anything.
Look at these items also:

msconfig startup items
remove temporary files
defrag
remove spyware
 

rags_20

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Yeah, I know. I have a 4850 and 9.3 drivers. Same issues as you. But that may be because I still have my old nvidia drivers left over in the HD. Will Format and see if its resolved. Also, try the new 9.4 drivers.