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Started by elEnemigo | | 8 answers
So today I got my new Sapphire Radeon R290 with Vapor-X cooling.
However after installing the Catalyst Suite my system started to freeze randomly a couple minutes after logon.
I even wiped my C drive and installed a fresh version of Win 7, yet the same symptoms appear:
My PC just freezes such that I can't even move the mouse pointer.
In safe mode or when not having amd drivers installed I get no problems at all.
I already tried Catalyst Version 14.4, 14.7 and some previous versions and also tried installing the display driver only, but to no avail.
I really don't know what to do anymore.
Does anyone recognize those symptoms and knows of a solution?
Kindly
elEnemigo
My PC:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Sapphire Radeon R290 Vapor-X
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
ASrock M3A790GXH/128M
Samsung 840 SSD
700 Watt PSU
However after installing the Catalyst Suite my system started to freeze randomly a couple minutes after logon.
I even wiped my C drive and installed a fresh version of Win 7, yet the same symptoms appear:
My PC just freezes such that I can't even move the mouse pointer.
In safe mode or when not having amd drivers installed I get no problems at all.
I already tried Catalyst Version 14.4, 14.7 and some previous versions and also tried installing the display driver only, but to no avail.
I really don't know what to do anymore.
Does anyone recognize those symptoms and knows of a solution?
Kindly
elEnemigo
My PC:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Sapphire Radeon R290 Vapor-X
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
ASrock M3A790GXH/128M
Samsung 840 SSD
700 Watt PSU
fkr
July 28, 2014 10:51:20 AM
elEnemigo
July 28, 2014 2:46:34 AM
elEnemigo
July 25, 2014 12:25:24 PM
fkr
July 25, 2014 11:15:46 AM
http://www.memtest86.com/technical.htm
above are some procedures.
http://www.wikihow.com/Test-PC-Ram-with-MemTest86
here are some pics in a wikihow
you need to let this run at least overnight. if you want to do another 24 hour run that will really let you know.
above are some procedures.
http://www.wikihow.com/Test-PC-Ram-with-MemTest86
here are some pics in a wikihow
you need to let this run at least overnight. if you want to do another 24 hour run that will really let you know.
fkr
July 25, 2014 11:02:24 AM
i think you should run a memtest.
http://www.memtest86.com/
this is usually the culprit. I had similar issues and could not figure it out for while. I am running 16 gigs of ram and none of the stress test used all 16 gigs so it did not show up. I had one bad stick and after I fixed that I have not had an issue since
http://www.memtest86.com/
this is usually the culprit. I had similar issues and could not figure it out for while. I am running 16 gigs of ram and none of the stress test used all 16 gigs so it did not show up. I had one bad stick and after I fixed that I have not had an issue since
elEnemigo
July 21, 2014 6:53:22 AM
Alright so I have stress-tested my CPU/GPU several times now for up to 24 hours and strangely enough I didn't get any freezes whatsoever during the tests, but after they were finished.
I do not understand why it would freeze on idle and not under heavy load.
Also the freezes after running stress tests are worse than the other ones, because when I restart my monitor tells me that "the mode is not supported", but still I get the "success beep" from my bios.
To fix this I have to remove the AC plug and wait a couple of seconds.
Does anyone know why it would act that way?
I do not understand why it would freeze on idle and not under heavy load.
Also the freezes after running stress tests are worse than the other ones, because when I restart my monitor tells me that "the mode is not supported", but still I get the "success beep" from my bios.
To fix this I have to remove the AC plug and wait a couple of seconds.
Does anyone know why it would act that way?
elEnemigo
July 19, 2014 4:59:20 PM
fkr
July 19, 2014 4:32:06 PM
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