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Started by elEnemigo | | 8 answers
Catalyst driver freezing my system
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
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July 28, 2014 10:51:20 AM

I am glad you got this fixed. My guess would be some kind of voltage regulator went bad on that motherboard. I wish we knew what wass the final issue
July 28, 2014 2:46:34 AM

Yup with a new mobo it all works fine and dandy.

Can anyone else report compatibility issues with the AMD 700 or 800 series chipsets?
July 25, 2014 12:25:24 PM

I did run 2 passes on memtest86+ recently which gave no errors.
And I don't think my RAM is the issue here as no problems occur when installing my Geforce 9500GT.

Anyway I ordered the ASUS M5A97 motherboard to see if my chipset is the issue. I'll post the results once I have it.
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
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?
July 19, 2014 4:59:20 PM

It is and so is my vc redist
July 19, 2014 4:32:06 PM

make sure that your microsoft.net is up to date.

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