- Jun 4, 2009
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Hello
I have been having problems with my Powercolor Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ graphics card, its crashing in games, about 10 minutes in, and I also noticed that it makes a strange high pitched squealing noise when its under load (I read this could be a loose capacitor).
Here are my specs (I only built this PC a week ago)
Phenom II x3 720 @ 3.4GHz
Asus M4A78L-M
4GB Corsair XMS2 800MHz (2x2GB)
Thermaltake toughpower Qfan 650w
Windows 7 64 bit
...and of course a HD 5770
The crash is a sort of grey screen, my speakers start making buzzing sounds, and then windows brings up a dialogue saying that the game has stopped working. I do not get any errors saying that ATI Catalyst has stopped working.
The strange thing is, it only crashes in Assassin's Creed II, and in Dirt 2, it doesnt even crash in Atitool or Crysis
And when it does crash, I can press alt + tab to get to the desktop, and the system seems to continue to function normally. I looked in the Event viewer, but there is no information about the crash except the details of the game crash. My CPU temps under load are 40 degrees C, and the HD 5770 under load is 60 (so its not a problem with overheating). Ive tried every recent version of Catalyst and uninstalled the old ones with driver sweeper, but still no luck.
Then I tried using the onboard graphics, and they work fine in games (except a low FPS of course), so I think the problem is a hardware issue with my HD 5770. But could it be a faulty power supply or faulty motherboard? Anyone got any suggestions to what the problem is?
Help is very much appreciated! Thanks
I have been having problems with my Powercolor Radeon HD 5770 PCS+ graphics card, its crashing in games, about 10 minutes in, and I also noticed that it makes a strange high pitched squealing noise when its under load (I read this could be a loose capacitor).
Here are my specs (I only built this PC a week ago)
Phenom II x3 720 @ 3.4GHz
Asus M4A78L-M
4GB Corsair XMS2 800MHz (2x2GB)
Thermaltake toughpower Qfan 650w
Windows 7 64 bit
...and of course a HD 5770
The crash is a sort of grey screen, my speakers start making buzzing sounds, and then windows brings up a dialogue saying that the game has stopped working. I do not get any errors saying that ATI Catalyst has stopped working.
The strange thing is, it only crashes in Assassin's Creed II, and in Dirt 2, it doesnt even crash in Atitool or Crysis
And when it does crash, I can press alt + tab to get to the desktop, and the system seems to continue to function normally. I looked in the Event viewer, but there is no information about the crash except the details of the game crash. My CPU temps under load are 40 degrees C, and the HD 5770 under load is 60 (so its not a problem with overheating). Ive tried every recent version of Catalyst and uninstalled the old ones with driver sweeper, but still no luck.
Then I tried using the onboard graphics, and they work fine in games (except a low FPS of course), so I think the problem is a hardware issue with my HD 5770. But could it be a faulty power supply or faulty motherboard? Anyone got any suggestions to what the problem is?
Help is very much appreciated! Thanks
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