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Started by Barrows | | 9 answers
Having display issues
So for the last 3 weeks my computer has been getting worse and worse.

When I'd play a game it'd crash but now its to the point where i can't even log onto my computer 9 times out of 10. Attached some pictures below along with my computer specs. It's does work for probably less than an hour once every 10 or so hard restarts. I've checked all the hardware temps and they aren't in dangerous ranges when under load.

CPU: AMD fx 8350
Memory: 16 GB
Storage: 2 tb HD
Video Card: AMD 7870
Power Supply: 550 watts
Software: Windows 7

Built this in march of 2013





Christmas is coming so i figured a new motherboard and a graphics card could kill two birds with one stone here.

Display works fine in safe mode.


I already tried re installing my display drivers, didn't work.

Seem to have the most success booting in safe mode, and having it restart to normal mode.
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October 15, 2014 11:23:20 PM

I agree with sla70r, either try different cable or use the cable to other pc.
You may also try reseat your graphics card, try it on other pcie slot.. ensure your pcei connectors are firm.
October 15, 2014 10:55:10 PM

Just in case, try different wires to connect monitor.
October 15, 2014 10:28:35 PM

I'll try the windows software restatt, Christmas is a couple weeks away and yes I do have an ASUS mobo just couldn't remember which off the top of my head.
October 14, 2014 5:39:30 AM

Barrows said:
System restore doesn't go back far enough, and i don't have the disk to do a system reset.
Abmario, what exactly is that supposed to do for rearranging the program files?
I moved from the states to Germany, but obviously I switched the back of my PSU to 220, and this didn't really start to have problems until a month after I moved here, if it was a bad PSU wouldn't it be noticeable from the beginning?


If you don't want to try a clean Windows setup, try another video card with the same power draw or try yours in another system than can run it. Those are really your only methods of ruling things out. If it's a sofware issues, a clean setup of Windows will fix it. If it's a hardware issues, swapping out cards will show that.

If you have a legal Windows code to use, you can download the Windows 7 ISO disks from digital river with the links at the bottom of the page here http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technology-science/microso... You may want to hurry and get those as Microsoft will likely pull them once support for Windows 7 ends.
October 14, 2014 5:31:17 AM

Deleting those two files is related to driver issue, thinking it's a AMD driver issue.

We can find out if you have a problem with your PSU, or something wrong with your psu... if it cannot handle the power required by your system under heavy loads.

If your are using your system on low graphics computing (low clock speed / idle), it consumes low power. But when your started computing with intense graphics requirement like gaming, HD video editing, 3D designing, etc. your gpu clock speed will go higher and will draw a lot of power from psu, if your psu can't handle it will result in bsod, freeze, shutdown or worst hardware damage.

I did not find your motherboard in the list. If you have Asus, open your case and look for memok, then turn On your pc > press hold memok until it reboot... its a feature of Asus for self diagnose (memok only in Asus)...
October 14, 2014 2:37:19 AM

System restore doesn't go back far enough, and i don't have the disk to do a system reset.
Abmario, what exactly is that supposed to do for rearranging the program files?
I moved from the states to Germany, but obviously I switched the back of my PSU to 220, and this didn't really start to have problems until a month after I moved here, if it was a bad PSU wouldn't it be noticeable from the beginning?
October 13, 2014 8:59:25 AM

First thing to try is a clean Windows setup to rule out any software issues. Actually the easiest thing is to test the video card in another system if you can. If you can't, unless you have another similar card availabl, clean Windows and drivers setup would be the first step.

These crashes are often due to a fialing video card but you need to rule things out unless you just want to go right to replacing the card, which may not fix the issue. Could be a power supply issue also, when it starts to feed power to the card during heavy loads something could be failing to work properly.
October 13, 2014 3:35:32 AM

In safe mode, try to search these files in the windows/system32/drivers: amdsata.sys" & "amdxata.sys, cut and paste these two in another folder, restart your pc and observe.
October 13, 2014 2:45:03 AM

Try to reinstall windows and see if it helps.

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