I bought a 6850 over 8 months ago to replace an old 8800 GT. Ever since then it has been a nightmare.
I will get random freezes and 10 seconds of darkness then an "amd display driver has recovered" bubble or just a general freeze and crash. It used to be fairly rare, just once a week or so but now just about any time I run a game such as Skyrim. Around 10 or so minutes into a game , usually loading in between cities, the screen will freeze or I will be kicked out onto the desktop with that damn bubble of doom "amd display driver has recovered." It also seems to happen 50% of the time when I take the system out of sleep mode. I'll get a freeze then that damn amd display bubble of doom thing.
System:
Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 450 (the 4th core can be unlocked but with all the problems I've left it as stock)
Board: Asus M4A87TD/USB3
Ram: 8g ddr3 1333
PSU: APEVIA 680W Beast Power
Overclocking: Doesn't seem to affect the system one way or the other if I have the cpu upp'd to 3.4 and the Video Card slightly pushed with the AMD overdrive. The crashes stay about the same but I've now left all parts to slock settings.
Step I've taken so far.
1. Uninstalled drivers. Cleared out the registry and reinstalled a variety of driver versions.
2. Rma'd the card and received a brand new replacement...
Feel a bit bad about that one, probable had a perfectly good card replaced
During my RMA I pop'd my old 8800 gt back into the computer and it ran smooth and never had a freeze or display driver bubble even during gaming
3. Ran memtest86+ and the memory checks out as clean
4. Grabbed the OCCT system tester thingy and have used all from the GPU to Linpack to Power supply test and all for over an hour and for the life of me I can't get an error or the system to crash when I try to. All temps stay far within a decent rage and the GPU itself tops out at 75c when pushed hardest.
5. Have used Driver Genius Pro to make sure all drivers on my system are up to date.
6. The only spare PSU I have is a 300w from an older HP, so I'm left without another psu to try unless I just bite the bullet and purchase one.
I'm not the greatest at running systems or sussing out problems and this one has driven me all but to tear out my hair. The next step I felt taking was to either completely reinstall windows , which will be such a massive headache or grab an actual Gold certified power supply. The PSU I'm running now was a newegg cheap special.
Just wondering what the next few steps others would take or what I have missed trying.
Thank you
-Ty
I will get random freezes and 10 seconds of darkness then an "amd display driver has recovered" bubble or just a general freeze and crash. It used to be fairly rare, just once a week or so but now just about any time I run a game such as Skyrim. Around 10 or so minutes into a game , usually loading in between cities, the screen will freeze or I will be kicked out onto the desktop with that damn bubble of doom "amd display driver has recovered." It also seems to happen 50% of the time when I take the system out of sleep mode. I'll get a freeze then that damn amd display bubble of doom thing.
System:
Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 450 (the 4th core can be unlocked but with all the problems I've left it as stock)
Board: Asus M4A87TD/USB3
Ram: 8g ddr3 1333
PSU: APEVIA 680W Beast Power
Overclocking: Doesn't seem to affect the system one way or the other if I have the cpu upp'd to 3.4 and the Video Card slightly pushed with the AMD overdrive. The crashes stay about the same but I've now left all parts to slock settings.
Step I've taken so far.
1. Uninstalled drivers. Cleared out the registry and reinstalled a variety of driver versions.
2. Rma'd the card and received a brand new replacement...
Feel a bit bad about that one, probable had a perfectly good card replaced
During my RMA I pop'd my old 8800 gt back into the computer and it ran smooth and never had a freeze or display driver bubble even during gaming
3. Ran memtest86+ and the memory checks out as clean
4. Grabbed the OCCT system tester thingy and have used all from the GPU to Linpack to Power supply test and all for over an hour and for the life of me I can't get an error or the system to crash when I try to. All temps stay far within a decent rage and the GPU itself tops out at 75c when pushed hardest.
5. Have used Driver Genius Pro to make sure all drivers on my system are up to date.
6. The only spare PSU I have is a 300w from an older HP, so I'm left without another psu to try unless I just bite the bullet and purchase one.
I'm not the greatest at running systems or sussing out problems and this one has driven me all but to tear out my hair. The next step I felt taking was to either completely reinstall windows , which will be such a massive headache or grab an actual Gold certified power supply. The PSU I'm running now was a newegg cheap special.
Just wondering what the next few steps others would take or what I have missed trying.
Thank you
-Ty