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Started by MonsterKiller | | 2 answers
BSOD's with R9 290's and hardware acceleration
So, I've had 2 MSI R9 290's in crossfire for a little while now. For a while, I was getting random BSOD's while browsing YouTube etc. This was getting to me since it would happen every 3 days or so.
I had recently upgraded my system, adding these 290's a couple of weeks later. Before that I had a 7950, which I didn't have this issue with.
The only thing I could think of, after getting the BSOD's, was hardware acceleration. I disable it in Firefox and behold, I rarely got BSOD's (although still got a couple).

The stop code is "0xa0000001 00000000`00000005"
It always seems to be caused by atikmdag.sys with verious addesses including: atikmdag.sys+28ece, atikmdag.sys+282ce, atikmdag.sys+277ce.
The minidump file sometimes also show random other drivers including: win32k.sys, ntoskrnl.exe, dxgmms1.sys (most common), Wdf01000.sys, iusb3xhc.sys.

I am using the latest AMD drivers (14.4 atm), but had the issue with previous drivers too.

System specs:
Intel i7-4770k, Gigabyte Z87X-D3H, 2 x MSI R9 290, Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB 1600MHz, Corsair RM1000, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

As mentioned, I can turn hardware acceleration off to help the issue, but its not ideal.
Anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this?
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May 27, 2014 4:06:02 PM

smeezekitty said:
One card may be defective. Pull out one at a time and run it for a while to see if one of the two crashes

I'll will try that soon.


Also got another one today, this time error "SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED"
0x1000007e, ffffffff`c0000005, fffff880`0f571dbb, fffff880`07370228, fffff880`0736fa80
Caused by: atikmdag.sys+128f6f & dxgmms1.sys+10181.

I dont know if this will help at all.

May 25, 2014 10:05:01 AM

One card may be defective. Pull out one at a time and run it for a while to see if one of the two crashes

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