I just built a computer recently and I'm getting these errors;
Freezing in games (various games)
Crashing in games (various again)
BSOD (usually, but not always in games)
Restarted graphics driver recovery message (sometimes in games, sometimes in Windows).
The BSOD message is always "Attempt to restart the display driver and recover from timeout failed" (atikmpag.sys), except for once when it was "The video scheduler has encountered an unexpected fatal error" and once when booting and it was a black screen with scrambled yellow writing (this was right after a Windows update though).
These are the specs:
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ASUS Crosshair Formula V
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (4-core, @3.4GHz) (No OC)
4GB (2x2GB matched pair) OCZ PC3 10666 RAM
2x ASUS/ATI Radeon HD6870 1GB cards (originally running in crossfire - now I'm just running on one of them)
Seagate 1TB Barracuda ST1000DM003 (SATA3/7200/64M)
Corsair VS650 PSU
Windows 7 Professional - 64-bit.
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I updated the motherboard BIOS, which cut down the amount of errors. I also flashed the card with the program from the manufacturer's website. I've tried the newest drivers, older drivers and the drivers found on the manufacturer's website. I've tried both cards together and each card separately.
I've reinstalled Windows (and updated) and all the motherboard/GPU drivers.
It may just be coincidence but GPU 2 seems more prone to errors - it's hard to tell though as sometimes I can play without problems and 90 minutes and sometimes it'll crash/BSOD/freeze 2 minutes in. I've also noticed I get graphical artifacts when playing Battlefield 3 on GPU 2, but not on GPU 1 oddly. Both cards give the same errors though. I seemed to get errors more often when they were running in crossfire. I've taken the GPUs out and placed them in quite a few times, so I doubt they were seated incorrectly every time.
GPU and CPU temperatures are good. Nothing is overclocked.
Any ideas what may cause it, or what I can do to try solve the problem/get more information?
Freezing in games (various games)
Crashing in games (various again)
BSOD (usually, but not always in games)
Restarted graphics driver recovery message (sometimes in games, sometimes in Windows).
The BSOD message is always "Attempt to restart the display driver and recover from timeout failed" (atikmpag.sys), except for once when it was "The video scheduler has encountered an unexpected fatal error" and once when booting and it was a black screen with scrambled yellow writing (this was right after a Windows update though).
These are the specs:
----
ASUS Crosshair Formula V
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (4-core, @3.4GHz) (No OC)
4GB (2x2GB matched pair) OCZ PC3 10666 RAM
2x ASUS/ATI Radeon HD6870 1GB cards (originally running in crossfire - now I'm just running on one of them)
Seagate 1TB Barracuda ST1000DM003 (SATA3/7200/64M)
Corsair VS650 PSU
Windows 7 Professional - 64-bit.
-----
I updated the motherboard BIOS, which cut down the amount of errors. I also flashed the card with the program from the manufacturer's website. I've tried the newest drivers, older drivers and the drivers found on the manufacturer's website. I've tried both cards together and each card separately.
I've reinstalled Windows (and updated) and all the motherboard/GPU drivers.
It may just be coincidence but GPU 2 seems more prone to errors - it's hard to tell though as sometimes I can play without problems and 90 minutes and sometimes it'll crash/BSOD/freeze 2 minutes in. I've also noticed I get graphical artifacts when playing Battlefield 3 on GPU 2, but not on GPU 1 oddly. Both cards give the same errors though. I seemed to get errors more often when they were running in crossfire. I've taken the GPUs out and placed them in quite a few times, so I doubt they were seated incorrectly every time.
GPU and CPU temperatures are good. Nothing is overclocked.
Any ideas what may cause it, or what I can do to try solve the problem/get more information?
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